Reported offences per 100,000 residents · 2025 · municipality
All offences reported in the municipality in 2025 (368 offences), per 100,000 residents. Reported offences are not the same as committed or cleared offences.
How much violence in public places is reported in Pajala?
86
Violence in public places against adults, reported offences per 100,000 residents · 2025 · municipality
Shared rank 236 of 290 ranked municipalities (2025) — highest number of reported offences per 100,000 residents. An order of reported offences, not of victimisation, safety or risk.
Reported offences of assault, including aggravated assault, committed outdoors in public places against people aged 18 or over (3 kap. 5, 6 § BrB Misshandel inkl. grov). Reported offences are not the same as committed or cleared offences; reporting propensity, police operations and local movement patterns affect the level.
Neutral differences from the source’s official figure for Sweden in the same period. Selection threshold: at least 2 percentage points, or 5% for other units.
Reported violent offences (per 100,000)
Pajala397.8 /100k
Sweden1,066.8 /100k
Pajala is below Sweden by 669.0 /100k.
2025 · Brå via Kolada N07403 · rank 280 of 290
Municipal tax rate (%)
Pajala23.4 %
Sweden20.7 %
Pajala is above Sweden by 2.7 percentage points.
2025 · SCB via Kolada N00901 · rank 6 of 289
Compare with nearby municipalities
Comparable values from the same period and definition. Sweden is the source’s official national figure.
Indicator
Pajala
Övertorneå
Överkalix
Gällivare
Boden
Sweden
Openly unemployed 18–65, share of population (%)2025 · Arbetsförmedlingen via Kolada N03937
2.0 %
2.3 %
3.2 %
1.4 %
2.1 %
3.1 %
Municipal tax rate (%)2025 · SCB via Kolada N00901
23.4 %
22.5 %
22.8 %
22.6 %
22.6 %
20.7 %
Overcrowding in apartment blocks (norm 2), share (%)2025 · SCB via Kolada N07907
14.1 %
12.9 %
13.7 %
10.2 %
8.6 %
15.1 %
Life expectancy, women2025 · SCB via Kolada N00925
Most similar to Pajala on share aged 0–19, share aged 65–79, share aged 80+, population, inhabitants per km² (2025), in order. An exploration aid — not a ranking of quality or a recommendation.
Measures: share aged 0–19, 65–79 and 80+ (Kolada), population on 31 December (Statistics Sweden BE0101N1) and inhabitants per km² (own calculation: population ÷ land area from Kolada, same year). Share aged 20–64 is omitted because the four age shares sum to 100. Population and density are compared on a logarithmic scale because they span several orders of magnitude.
Each measure is standardised (z-score across all municipalities with every measure used); the distance is the Euclidean distance with equal weight per measure. Equal distances are ordered by municipality code. A measure is only used if at least 90% of municipalities have it for the same year; if this municipality lacks a measure, that measure is left out rather than showing an empty list. Missing values are never treated as zero. No similarity percentage is shown.
Actual net cost per inhabitant in 2025, from Statistics Sweden's Municipal Accounts via Kolada. This is a verified selection, not a complete budget, and the values must not be added as total expenditure.
Actual outcome 2025
Elderly care
38,654 SEK/inh.
Compulsory school, preschool class–year 9
18,151 SEK/inh.
Disability services
8,899 SEK/inh.
Preschool, school-age childcare and other educational activities
7,583 SEK/inh.
Infrastructure, protection and related activities
6,150 SEK/inh.
Upper-secondary school
4,952 SEK/inh.
Individual and family care
2,057 SEK/inh.
Political activities
1,984 SEK/inh.
Leisure activities
1,247 SEK/inh.
Cultural activities
1,070 SEK/inh.
Budget (plan)
No verified budget for Pajala is shown. Municipal budgets are adopted by each council and published as documents; there is no common machine-readable official source for all 290 municipalities, so we do not copy figures that cannot be checked automatically. The budget is never mixed with the actual outcome above.
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What has changed in Pajala?
Latest observed period compared with the preceding period in the same series. A change between two periods — not a revision or a change of definition.
Population (31 Dec)2024: 5,857 people → 2025: 5,706 people
Municipal tax rate (%)2024: 23.4 % → 2025: 23.4 %(unchanged)
Median income, 20+2023: 301,600 SEK → 2024: 318,800 SEK
Openly unemployed 18–65, share of population (%)2024: 1.6 % → 2025: 2.0 %
Pajala had 5,706 residents on 31 December 2025 (Statistics Sweden, BE0101N1). Since 2002 the population has fallen by 1,500 people. The largest urban area Pajala had 1,962 residents (2023, SCB MI0810).
Larger chart and tableForeign-born, or born in Sweden to two foreign-born parents, as a share of the population on 31 December. The 2025 observation uses Statistics Sweden's CKM disclosure-control method. Source: SCB BE0101Q2. Primary data, shown unchanged.
Share with a foreign background in Pajala, 2002–2025
Foreign background by age and sex is not published at municipal level by Statistics Sweden. Foreign background for this municipality is shown by area (DeSO) further down the page.
Households in Pajala
Register-based household statistics from Statistics Sweden. Shares are derived from compatible published cells within the same SCB table and reference year.
SCB applies CKM disclosure control to the 2025 figures; published values contain a small amount of controlled random uncertainty.
Municipal election 2026
Final · Source: Valmyndigheten
Turnout
77.23 %
Seats
21
Valid votes
3,526
Blank votes
60
Result per party, municipal council election 2026
Party
Share
vs 2022
Votes
Seats
Left Party
31.54 %
–
1,112
7
Social Democratic Party
17.41 %
–
614
4
Centre Party
16.51 %
–
582
3
Christian Democrats
14.75 %
–
520
3
Sweden Democrats
8.20 %
–
289
2
Moderate Party
6.01 %
–
212
1
SJVSjukvårdspartiet
3.72 %
–
131
1
Other parties (7)
1.87 %
–
66
–
Latest actual election: 13 September 2026 (final count). Turnout figures in Kolada series elsewhere on this page refer to an earlier election and are labelled with their series year.
Riksdag election 2026, result per party in Pajala kommun
Party
Share
vs 2022
Votes
Social Democratic Party
31.26 %
−4.0
1,081
Sweden Democrats
24.61 %
+1.3
851
Left Party
14.57 %
−0.5
504
Moderate Party
10.29 %
+0.7
356
Christian Democrats
8.65 %
+0.3
299
Centre Party
3.67 %
+0.2
127
Liberals
2.37 %
+0.9
82
Green Party
2.31 %
+0.2
80
AFSAlternativ för Sverige
0.72 %
+0.3
25
Other parties (7)
1.53 %
–
53
Total valid votes
100 %
3,458
Share of valid votes cast in the municipality. ± 2022 is the change in percentage points as reported by the Election Authority for the same party code; "–" means no comparable 2022 value. Votes are shown on wider screens. Source updated 2026-09-19 · retrieved 2026-10-01.
In 2025, Pajala Municipality had 5,706 residents according to Statistics Sweden (BefolkningCKM (000007ME)). Of these, 1,962 lived in the main urban area Pajala (2023).
›How has the population of Pajala changed?
Since 2002 the population has fallen by 1,500 people (−20.8 %). Source: Statistics Sweden BE0101N1.
›Which county is Pajala in?
Pajala Municipality is located in Norrbotten County (county code 25).
›What is the municipal tax rate in Pajala?
In 2026 the total local tax rate in Pajala is 34.74 % (municipality 23.40 % plus region 11.34 %). That is rank 266 of 290 municipalities from lowest to highest. Source: Statistics Sweden OE0101.
›How does Pajala use municipal funds?
Selected actual net costs in 2025 include Elderly care: 38,654 SEK per inhabitant; Compulsory school, preschool class–year 9: 18,151 SEK per inhabitant; Disability services: 8,899 SEK per inhabitant. These are outcomes from Statistics Sweden's Municipal Accounts via Kolada, not a complete budget and not figures to add as total expenditure.
›What does unemployment look like in Pajala?
In Pajala, openly unemployed 18–65, share of population (%) was 2.0 % (2025). The national figure is 3.1 %. Source: Arbetsförmedlingen via Kolada N03937. Observation SF.KOLADATS-ARBETSLOSHET-18-65.2521.2025.
›How are school results in Pajala?
In Pajala, year 9 pupils eligible for vocational upper secondary programmes, municipality of location (%) was 84.1 % (2024). Source: Skolverket via Kolada N15424. Observation SF.KOLADATS-BEHORIGHET-GYMNASIUM.2521.2024.
›How much crime is reported in Pajala?
In Pajala, reported offences, total (per 100,000) was 6,365.1 /100k (2025). The national figure is 13,581.3 /100k. Source: Brå via Kolada N07540. Observation SF.KOLADATS-ANMALDA-BROTT-TOTALT.2521.2025.
›Where does the data come from?
Population comes from Statistics Sweden BE0101N1 and foreign background from BE0101Q2. Local key figures come from Kolada (RKA) and Statistics Sweden via SVERIGEFAKTA's municipal data engine, and every figure carries its own observation ID.
Sources and method
BE0101N1Population by municipality, age, sex and year (31 Dec)
The figures on this page can be traced to their stated sources. Where an observation ID is available, it is shown with the corresponding fact. Read the method.
Foreign background: 16.6 % in 2025 (SCB BE0101Q2).
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Short source
SVERIGEFAKTA, “Pajala Municipality population 2025: 5,706 residents & facts”. Original source: SCB, SCB, Kolada. https://sverigefakta.com/en/municipality/pajala
Full reference
SVERIGEFAKTA, “Pajala Municipality population 2025: 5,706 residents & facts”. Original source: SCB (https://api.scb.se/OV0104/v1/doris/sv/ssd/START/BE/BE0101); SCB (https://api.scb.se/OV0104/v1/doris/sv/ssd/BO/BO0101/BO0101C/LagenhetNyKv16); Kolada (https://api.kolada.se/v3/kpi). https://sverigefakta.com/en/municipality/pajala
APA 7
Pajala Municipality population 2025: 5,706 residents & facts. (n.d.). SVERIGEFAKTA. Retrieved 2026-10-28, from https://sverigefakta.com/en/municipality/pajala Original source: SCB, SCB, Kolada.
Harvard
“Pajala Municipality population 2025: 5,706 residents & facts” (n.d.) SVERIGEFAKTA. Available at: https://sverigefakta.com/en/municipality/pajala (Accessed: 2026-10-28). Original source: SCB, SCB, Kolada.
BibTeX
@misc{sverigefakta_2026_en_municipality_pajala,
title = {Pajala Municipality population 2025: 5,706 residents & facts},
howpublished = {\url{https://sverigefakta.com/en/municipality/pajala}},
note = {Presented by SVERIGEFAKTA; original source SCB, SCB, Kolada}
}
