Sundbyberg Municipality

Infobox_Kommun2
fullname=Sundbybergs kommun


county=Stockholm County
province=Uppland
capital=Sundbyberg


arearank=290th
area=8.83
arealand=8.72
populationrank=69th
population=34,529
densityrank=2nd
populationdensity=3,959.7
website=http://www.sundbyberg.se/
footnotes=Area & population from SCB as of December 31, 2006

Sundbyberg Municipality ("Sundbybergs kommun" 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 (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 8.83 km², the smallest municipality in Sweden. The municipality prefers to call itself a "City".

History

Sundbyberg was for a long time only an area of agriculture. In 1863 almost the entire area was bought by Alve Högman, who began building houses there. Ten years later he had sold 40 lots.

Soon various industries were located to Sundbyberg.

Industry

The 34,000 inhabitants live in roughly 17,000 apartments. The industrial policy of the municipality is to provide one job opportunity for every apartment, thus 17,000 jobs. 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, 12,000 commuters travel to or from Sundbyberg every day.

Public transportation

Sundbyberg is well served by the Stockholm public transport system. There are several metro stations as well as one Stockholm commuter rail station and plenty of bus routes. Even some main line trains call at Sundbyberg. Until 1959 Sundbyberg was served by trams. Trams are expected to return to Sundbyberg in a couple of years when Tvärbanan will be extended from Alvik.

Districts

*Centrala Sundbyberg
*Duvbo
*Hallonbergen
*Lilla Alby
*Rissne
*Storskogen
*Ursvik
*Ör

External links

* [http://www.sundbyberg.se/ Sundbyberg Municipality] - Official site

Further reading

*"Sundbyberg - om hus och miljöer", Eva Söderlind