Reported offences per 100,000 residents · 2025 · municipality
All offences reported in the municipality in 2025 (1,585 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 Vara?
231
Violence in public places against adults, reported offences per 100,000 residents · 2025 · municipality
Rank 42 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)
Vara822.5 /100k
Sweden1,066.8 /100k
Vara is below Sweden by 244.3 /100k.
2025 · Brå via Kolada N07403 · rank 169 of 290
Year 9 pupils eligible for vocational upper secondary programmes, municipality of location (%)
Vara77.5 %
Sweden84.1 %
Vara is below Sweden by 6.6 percentage points.
2025 · Skolverket via Kolada N15424 · rank 210 of 282
Voter turnout, municipal election (%)
Vara82.0 %
Sweden80.0 %
Vara is above Sweden by 2.0 percentage points.
2025 · SCB:s valdeltagandeundersökning via Kolada N05401 · rank 115 of 287
Compare with nearby municipalities
Comparable values from the same period and definition. Sweden is the source’s official national figure.
Indicator
Vara
Essunga
Grästorp
Lidköping
Lerum
Sweden
Municipal tax rate (%)2025 · SCB via Kolada N00901
21.8 %
21.6 %
22.0 %
21.3 %
20.7 %
20.7 %
Openly unemployed 18–65, share of population (%)2025 · Arbetsförmedlingen via Kolada N03937
2.2 %
2.1 %
1.8 %
2.0 %
1.9 %
3.1 %
Year 9 pupils eligible for vocational upper secondary programmes, municipality of location (%)2025 · Skolverket via Kolada N15424
77.5 %
64.6 %
77.4 %
83.0 %
86.6 %
84.1 %
Overcrowding in apartment blocks (norm 2), share (%)2025 · SCB via Kolada N07907
Most similar to Vara 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
16,794 SEK/inh.
Compulsory school, preschool class–year 9
15,490 SEK/inh.
Preschool, school-age childcare and other educational activities
8,695 SEK/inh.
Disability services
8,052 SEK/inh.
Individual and family care
6,289 SEK/inh.
Infrastructure, protection and related activities
6,138 SEK/inh.
Upper-secondary school
5,937 SEK/inh.
Cultural activities
2,250 SEK/inh.
Leisure activities
1,841 SEK/inh.
Political activities
1,073 SEK/inh.
Budget (plan)
No verified budget for Vara 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 Vara?
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: 16,088 people → 2025: 16,011 people
Municipal tax rate (%)2024: 22.4 % → 2025: 21.8 %
Median income, 20+2023: 319,400 SEK → 2024: 329,700 SEK
Openly unemployed 18–65, share of population (%)2024: 2.1 % → 2025: 2.2 %
Vara had 16,011 residents on 31 December 2025 (Statistics Sweden, BE0101N1). Since 2002 the population has grown by 2 people. The largest urban area Vara had 4,432 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 Vara, 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 Vara
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
80.98 %
Seats
41
Valid votes
10,251
Blank votes
177
Result per party, municipal council election 2026
Party
Share
vs 2022
Votes
Seats
Moderate Party
35.64 %
–
3,653
15
Social Democratic Party
20.18 %
–
2,069
9
Sweden Democrats
16.95 %
–
1,738
7
hvkbHela Vara kommuns bästa
10.25 %
–
1,051
4
Centre Party
6.72 %
–
689
3
Left Party
4.98 %
–
510
2
Christian Democrats
2.93 %
–
300
1
Other parties (8)
2.35 %
–
241
–
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 Vara kommun
Party
Share
vs 2022
Votes
Sweden Democrats
26.76 %
−3.1
2,755
Moderate Party
24.64 %
+2.6
2,537
Social Democratic Party
21.49 %
−3.5
2,212
Christian Democrats
7.28 %
+0.8
749
Centre Party
6.89 %
−0.6
709
Left Party
4.65 %
+0.9
479
Liberals
4.12 %
+1.5
424
Green Party
2.47 %
+0.6
254
ÖrPÖrebropartiet
0.87 %
–
90
Other parties (12)
0.84 %
–
86
Total valid votes
100 %
10,295
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, Vara municipality had 16,011 residents according to Statistics Sweden (BefolkningCKM (000007ME)). Of these, 4,432 lived in the main urban area Vara (2023).
›How has the population of Vara changed?
Since 2002 the population has grown by 2 people (+0.0 %). Source: Statistics Sweden BE0101N1.
›Which county is Vara in?
Vara municipality is located in Västra Götaland County (county code 14).
›What is the municipal tax rate in Vara?
In 2026 the total local tax rate in Vara is 33.25 % (municipality 21.77 % plus region 11.48 %). That is rank 117 of 290 municipalities from lowest to highest. Source: Statistics Sweden OE0101.
›How does Vara use municipal funds?
Selected actual net costs in 2025 include Elderly care: 16,794 SEK per inhabitant; Compulsory school, preschool class–year 9: 15,490 SEK per inhabitant; Preschool, school-age childcare and other educational activities: 8,695 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 Vara?
In Vara, openly unemployed 18–65, share of population (%) was 2.2 % (2025). The national figure is 2.7 %. Source: Arbetsförmedlingen via Kolada N03937. Observation SF.KOLADATS-ARBETSLOSHET-18-65.1470.2025.
›How are school results in Vara?
In Vara, year 9 pupils eligible for vocational upper secondary programmes, municipality of location (%) was 77.5 % (2025). The national figure is 81.5 %. Source: Skolverket via Kolada N15424. Observation SF.KOLADATS-BEHORIGHET-GYMNASIUM.1470.2025.
›How much crime is reported in Vara?
In Vara, reported offences, total (per 100,000) was 9,875.7 /100k (2025). The national figure is 9,856.9 /100k. Source: Brå via Kolada N07540. Observation SF.KOLADATS-ANMALDA-BROTT-TOTALT.1470.2025.
›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: 15.2 % in 2025 (SCB BE0101Q2).
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Short source
SVERIGEFAKTA, “SVERIGEFAKTA”. Original source: SCB, SCB, Kolada. https://sverigefakta.com/en/municipality/vara
