Asikkala () is a municipality of Finland. Its seat is in Vääksy, at the shores of the Lake Päijänne. It is located in the province of Southern Finland and is part of the Päijät-Häme region. Asikkala's neighboring municipalities are Hämeenlinna, Heinola, Hollola, Lahti, Padasjoki and Sysmä.
The municipality has a population of () and covers an area of of which is water.
Asikkala is mentioned in writing for the first time in a document concerning a border dispute with Sysmä in 1443. It is mentioned in 1445 as an administrative parish, whose subordinates in taxation included the villages of Viitaila, Asikkala and Urajärvi, and later Ruuhijärvi in modern-day Nastola. In the early 1600s, Asikkala became an independent chapel parish from the mother parish of Hollola.
- Anianpelto
- Asikkala
- Hillilä
- Iso-Äiniö
- Joenniemi
- Kalkkinen
- Keltaniemi
- Kopsuo
- Kurhila
- Muikkula
- Myllykselä
- Paakkola
- Pulkkila
- Pätiälä
- Reivilä
- Riihilahti
- Salo
- Särkijärvi
- Urajärvi
- Vehkoo
- Vesivehmaa
- Viitaila
- Vähimaa
- Vähä-Äiniö
Climate
Asikkala has a humid continental climate (Dfb) with cold winters and mild to warm summers. The climate is slightly milder than the nearby city of Lahti due to influence from Lake Päijänne.
Demographics
In 2020, 13.3% of the population of Asikkala was under the age of 15, 52.7% were aged 15 to 64, and 34.0% were over the age of 64. The average age was 49.9, above the national average of 43.4 and regional average of 46.1. Speakers of Finnish made up 97.4% of the population and speakers of Swedish made up 0.2%, while the share of speakers of foreign languages was 2.4%. Foreign nationals made up 1.8% of the total population.
The chart below, describing the development of the total population of Asikkala from 1975-2020, encompasses the municipality's area as of 2021.
Urban areas
In 2019, out of the total population of 8,083, 5,188 people lived in urban areas and 2,814 in sparsely populated areas, while the coordinates of 81 people were unknown. This made Asikkala's degree of urbanization 64.8%. The urban population in the municipality was divided between two urban areas as follows:
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! # !! Urban area !! Population
|-
| align="center" | 1 || Vääksy || align="right" | 4,810
|-
| align="center" | 2 || Lahti central locality ||align="right"| 378