Vännäs Municipality

Infobox_Kommun2
fullname=Vännäs kommun


county=Västerbotten County
province=Västerbotten
capital=Vännäs


arearank=166th
area=533
arealand=
populationrank=238th
population=8,436
densityrank=
populationdensity=16
website=http://www.vannas.se/
footnotes=Area & population from SCB as of December 31, 2007

Vännäs Municipality ("Vännäs kommun") is a municipality in Västerbotten County, northern Sweden. Its seat is in Vännäs (pop. 4,000). The second largest town is Vännäsby, with 1,500 inhabitants.

In 1928 the locality Vännäs was detached from the rural municipality with the same name, forming the market town ("köping") of Vännäs. The two entities were reunited in 1971. In 1974 "Bjurholm" was added. A split took place in 1980 when Bjurholm Municipality was re-established.

The municipality is located just west of Umeå Municipality, where the city Umeå is seat, with about 100,000 inhabitants, and it is part of the Umeå region. This is evident considering that the municipality has 1,500 people commuting "to" Umeå Municipality, and about 400 commuters "from" Umeå Municipality. Its neighbouring municipalities Vindeln Municipality, Bjurholm Municipality and Nordmaling Municipality only receive a total of about 100 commuters from Vännäs and Vännäs receives a total of 200 commuters from them. (Source:Fact sheet at municipal official site, 2005)

External links

* [http://www.vannas.se Vännäs] - Official site