Sundbyberg Municipality ( or Sundbybergs stad) is a municipality in Stockholm County in east central Sweden, just north of the capital Stockholm. Sundbyberg is wholly within the Stockholm urban area and has a 100% urban population.

Sundbyberg was detached from Bromma (which since 1916 is in Stockholm Municipality) in 1888 as a market town (köping). It got the title of a city in 1927. In 1949 parts of Solna Municipality and Spånga Municipality (when the rest of Spånga was amalgamated into Stockholm) were added. A proposed merger with Solna in 1971 was never implemented, making Sundbyberg, with an area of , the smallest municipality in Sweden, but also the most densely populated. The municipality prefers to call itself a city, which, however, has no legal significance.

History

Sundbyberg was for a long time only an area of small agriculture value and most of all used as a place to spend summer for rich families in the city. In 1863, almost the entire area was bought by Anders Petter Löfström, including Duvbo Estate, who began building houses there. In 1870, the first industrial plot was sold and from there the town did expand with railroad, houses, industries and community services of all kind. A. P. Löfström also donated to the municipality, all land for roads, streets, parks, school, church and other public areas.

thumb|left|Sundbyberg and its surroundings in 1919

In 1888, Sundbyberg municipality was formed with 1,133 inhabitants, splitting off from Bromma. At the time the municipality only constituted Central Sundbyberg and the undeveloped Storskogen. Sundbyberg was known in its early years for its beer, its spirited political discourses, its muddy streets, and the danger of the streets at night (nowadays the crime-hit areas are Hallonbergen and Rissne instead). Sales of land was aimed at workers and industry, and the relative lack of public services caused a strong cooperative spirit to form. as well as cause Sundbyberg to rapidly lose its industrial character.

Economy

The roughly 50,000 inhabitants live in about 20,000 households. The industrial policy of the municipality is to provide one job opportunity for every household, with there being around 23,000 jobs in the municipality (in 2015). So unlike other municipalities in Metropolitan Stockholm, Sundbyberg is not a bedroom suburb wherefrom people commute to Stockholm, but also a place commuted to from outside. In total, 19,000 commuters travel in each direction to or from Sundbyberg every day (in 2014). and is generally lower than the Swedish average.

In the first half of its existence, Sundbyberg saw a strong expansion of industrial activity, and most residents were industrial workers, but in the 1940s the industry almost entirely disappeared from Sundbyberg. By the 1970s warehouses and IT businesses had established themselves instead, and an attempt to establish industry in Hallonbergen had failed due to high rental costs. Today the service sector dominates, with Sundbyberg having become a place with office workers, as a result of Sundbyberg becoming more central as Stockholm has expanded and public transport has been strengthened.

Unusually for Stockholm suburbs, Sundbyberg has a proper town centre, with plenty of nice shops in the Central Sundbyberg area, which makes the little city a bit independent. There are also smaller concentrations of stores elsewhere in the municipality, such as by the Rissne and Hallonbergen metro stations. The proximity of the shopping centres Bromma Blocks (1 km away) and Mall of Scandinavia (2 km away) has hindered establishment of a shopping centre in Central Sundbyberg. Businesses in Hallonbergen suffer from getting few customers from elsewhere due to the area's poor reputation, whereas the area's locals don't mind going elsewhere, e.g. to cafés in Central Sundbyberg.

Demography

Population growth

2022 by district

This is a demographic table based on Sundbyberg Municipality's electoral districts in the 2022 Swedish general election sourced from SVT's election platform, in turn taken from SCB official statistics.

In total there were 53,431 residents, including 38,222 Swedish citizens of voting age. On 31 December 2017 there were 49 424 residents in Sundbyberg, of which 14 954 people (30.26%) were born in a country other than Sweden. Divided by country in the table below - the Nordic countries as well as the 12 most common countries of birth outside of Sweden for Swedish residents have been included, with other countries of birth bundled together by continent by Statistics Sweden.

{| class="wikitable collapsible collapsed"

! colspan=3| Country of birth

! New homes planned 2021-2034

! Higher education of 20-64yo 2018

! Foreign born 2010

! Sickness days/year 2010

|-

! Stora Ursvik

| 6 706 || 4 963 || 31%/56%/14% || rowspan="3"| 59% || rowspan="3"| 20% || rowspan="3"| 15

|-

! Lilla Ursvik

| 1 069 || 0 || 0%/22%/78%

|-

! Brotorp/Järvastaden

| 2 175 || 475 || 0%/30%/70%

|-

! Rissne

| 8 601 || 1 425 || 69%/29%/2% || 37% || 50% || 30

|-

! Hallonbergen

| 5 984 || 3 133 || 70%/30%/0% || 30% || 67% || 38

|-

! Ör

| 2 298 || 846 || 47%/53%/0% || 36% || 32% || 31

|-

! Duvbo

| 2 212 || 0 || 35%/22%/42% || 59% || 18% || 15

|-

! Central Sundbyberg

| 14 585 || 1 170 || 56%/42%/1% || 54% ||20% || 22

|-

! Storskogen

| 3 067 || 47 || 73%/26%/1% || 43% || 21% || 29

|-

! Lilla Alby

| 5 946 || 230 || 56%/43%/0% || 51% || 24% || 24

|-

! Other

| 138 || - || || Sweden: 44%

|| Sweden: 20% || Sweden: 25

|}

Public transport

thumb|Commuter train at [[Sundbyberg railway station|Sundbyberg station]]

Sundbyberg is well served by the Stockholm public transport system. There are several metro stations as well as one train station and plenty of bus routes. Even some main line trains call at Sundbyberg. The Tvärbanan light rail service was extended from Sickla Udde via Alvik to Solna centrum in October 2013. The line runs through Central Sundbyberg with tracks laid in the street and has two stops within the municipality. Construction of a northern light railway branch from Ulvsunda to Kista that will pass through Rissne and Stora Ursvik started in 2018.

Districts<!--ref>https://www.sundbyberg.se/kommun-politik/kommunfakta.html</ref-->

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  • Brotorp
  • Central Sundbyberg
  • Duvbo
  • Hallonbergen
  • Lilla Alby
  • Lilla Ursvik
  • Kymlinge
  • Rissne
  • Stora Ursvik
  • Storskogen
  • Ör

Sports

The following sports clubs are located in Sundbyberg:

  • Sundbybergs IK
  • Storskogens SK

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Storskogstorget.jpg|Storskogstorget, a square in Storskogen

Esplanaden17.jpg|Apartment block from 1911 in Central Sundbyberg

Lötsjön Sundbyberg.jpg|Lötsjön, a lake in the middle of Sundbyberg

Hallonbergen.jpg|Hallonbergen centre

Rissnetbana.jpg|Metro station in Rissne

Ursvik_2009a.jpg|Residential buildings in Stora Ursvik

</Gallery>

References

  • Sundbyberg Municipality - Official site
  • Sundbyberg Museum & Archive - Official site