List of former municipalities in Västerbotten County

The list of former municipalities in Västerbottens län lists all municipalities in the Swedish province of Västerbottens län that existed between the entry into force of the municipal code of 1862 and the implementation of the municipality reform of 1971, when the municipalities were formed in the form that still exists today. In addition, an overview of the population development of the communities in this period is given.

List of municipalities

The municipality of Västerbotten in 1952

The municipality of Västerbotten since 1971

The first Swedish municipal code of 1862 with the formation of town councils ( stadskommun, usually stad in name), minority municipalities ( köpingskommun or köping, in Västerbottens län only from 1928) and rural communities (landskommun) came into effect in the province on January 1, 1863 only in the coastal part, the historical province (landskap) Västerbotten , through the formation of 14 municipalities initially. In the sparsely populated inland, part of the historic province of Lapland , eight communities were not established until January 1, 1874.

The municipal reform of 1952, which reduced the number of municipalities in Sweden by almost two thirds, had no effect in Västerbotten County. One consequence of this was that Holmöns landskommun in the period 1952–1973 was by far the smallest municipality in Sweden in terms of inhabitants, with less than 200 inhabitants at last, while all other comparable municipalities in other provinces of the country lost their independence in 1952, with some even smaller populations. Consolidation did not begin until the mid-1960s. Before that, in the period from 1947 to 1964, the highest level of 34 municipalities had been reached (most recently 3 cities, 4 minor cities, 27 rural municipalities).

As part of the municipality reform in 1971, 23 municipalities of the same type (commun) were created on January 1, 1971 . Nine of them only existed for a transitional period until December 31, 1973, before they were absorbed or merged into the 15 municipalities that still exist today (Robertsfors kommun emerged from Bygdeå and Nysätra kommun).

coat of arms	local community	main place	From	To	Emerged from	Incorporated into	Today's church	comment
	Åsele köping	Åsele	1959	1970	Åsele landskommun		Åsele
	Åsele landskommun	Åsele	1874	1958		Åsele köping	Åsele
	Bjurholms landskommun	Bjurholm	1863	1970			Bjurholm
	Bureå landskommun	Bureå	1914	1966	Skellefteå landskommun *	Skellefteå stad	Skellefteå
	Burträsks landskommun	Burträsk	1863	1973			Skellefteå	1971–1973 Burträsks kommun
	Bygdeå landskommun	Bygdeå Robertsfors	1863	1973			Robertsfors	1971–1973 Bygdeå kommun
	Byske landskommun	Byske	1875	1966	Skellefteå landskommun *	Skellefteå stad	Skellefteå
	Degerfors landskommun *	Vindeln	1863	1968		Vindelns landskommun (renamed)	Vindeln
	Dorotea landskommun	Dorotea	1874	1970			Dorotea
	Fredrika landskommun	Fredrika	1874	1973			Åsele	1971–1973 Fredrika kommun
	Holmöns landskommun	Holmön	1925	1973	Sävars landskommun *		Umeå	1971–1973 Holmöns commun
	Holmsunds köping	Holmsund	1947	1973	Holmsunds landskommun		Umeå	1971–1973 Holmsunds kommun
	Holmsunds landskommun	Holmsund	1918	1946	Umeå landskommun *	Holmsunds köping	Umeå
	Hörnefors landskommun	Hörnefors	1914	1973	North Malings landskommun * Umeå landskommun *		Umeå	1971–1973 Hörnefors commun
	Jörns landskommun	Jörn	1863	1966		Skellefteå stad	Skellefteå
	Lövångers landskommun	Lövånger	1863	1973			Skellefteå	1971–1973 Lövångers kommun
	Lycksele köping	Lycksele	1929	1945	Lycksele landskommun *	Lycksele stad	Lycksele
	Lycksele landskommun	Lycksele	1874	1970			Lycksele
	Lycksele stad	Lycksele	1946	1970	Lycksele köping		Lycksele
	Malå landskommun	Malå	1874	1970			Malå
	North Malings landskommun	North Maling	1863	1970			North Maling
	Norsjö landskommun	Norsjö	1863	1970			Norsjö
	Nysätra landskommun *	Ånäset	1863	1973			Robertsfors	1971–1973 Nysätra commun
	Örträsks landskommun	Örträsk	1895	1970	Lycksele landskommun *		Lycksele
	Sävars landskommun	Sävar	1863	1973			Umeå	1971–1973 Sävars kommun
	Skellefteå landskommun	Skellefteå	1863	1966		Skellefteå stad	Skellefteå
	Skellefteå stad	Skellefteå	1881	1970	Skellefteå landskommun *		Skellefteå	City charter since November 10, 1845
	Sorsele landskommun	Sorsele	1874	1970			Sorsele
	Stensele landskommun	Stensele Storuman	1874	1970			Storuman
	Tärna landskommun *	Tärnaby	1903	1970	Stensele landskommun *		Storuman	Formed May 1, 1903
	Umeå landskommun	Umeå	1863	1964		Umeå stad	Umeå
	Umeå stad	Umeå	1863	1970			Umeå	City charter since 1588, renewed in 1622
	Vännäs köping	Vännäs	1928	1970	Vännäs landskommun *		Vännäs
	Vännäs landskommun	Vännäs	1863	1970			Vännäs
	Vilhelmina köping	Vilhelmina	1947	1970	Vilhelmina landskommun *		Vilhelmina
	Vilhelmina landskommun	Vilhelmina	1874	1964		Vilhelmina köping	Vilhelmina
	Vindelns landskommun	Vindeln	1969	1970	Degerfors landskommun (renamed)		Vindeln

Remarks

• Municipalities are highlighted in green , minority municipalities in yellow .
• The designations of municipalities that continue to exist today in an adapted form as commun under the respective name are shown in bold ; if there were city or minor city or rural communities with the same name, then the former.
• An asterisk (*) after the name means that there was at least one municipality with the same name in other provinces of Sweden.
• Several stated main places per municipality mean that this has shifted during the time of the existence of the municipality.
• Communities were formed on January 1 of the year mentioned ( From column ) or ceased to exist on December 31 ( To column ), unless otherwise stated in the comments.
• For the congregations that originally emerged from the earlier church administrative units in 1863/1874, nothing is noted in the column “ Originated from” ; usually this was the parish of the same name ( socks ). An asterisk (*) in this column means that a church was formed from a part of the earlier church marked in this way.
• For municipalities that existed until 1970, nothing is noted in the Raised up column if they continue to exist as a municipality named under Today's municipality or if they were absorbed into one.
• If the associated city did not receive its city charter at the same time (but usually earlier) when a municipality was formed , this is stated under comments.

Population development

The following table shows the development of the population of the former municipalities of Västerbotten County between 1860 and 1970, in each case for December 31 of the respective year.

Surname	1860	1870	1880	1890	1900	1910	1915	1920	1925	1930	1935	1940	1945	1950	1955	1960	1965	1970
Åsele landskommun Åsele köping	2,228	2,308	2,862	3,259	4,236	4,815	5,084	5,413	5,813	5,906	6.225	6,407	6.232	5,930	5,879	5,738	4,930	4,198
Bjurholms landskommun	2,231	2,709	3,249	3.810	4,229	4,274	4,411	4,685	4,920	5,206	5,482	5,553	5,304	5,193	5,085	4,785	4,329	3,911
Bureå landskommun							4,692	5,071	5,552	6,043	6.265	6,017	5,689	5,385	5,341	5,015	4,583
Burträsks landskommun	5,766	6.106	6,766	7,635	8,260	8,986	9,311	9,612	9,955	9,923	9,943	10,005	10,050	9,901	9,204	8,359	7,378	6,425
Bygdeå landskommun	4,681	5,092	5,352	5,727	6.135	7,395	7,554	7,664	7,932	7,842	7,652	7.210	6,912	6,629	6,272	5,958	5,463	4,995
Byske landskommun			6.116	7,615	8,814	9,638	10,023	10,447	10,837	10,457	10.142	9,913	9,457	8,900	8,287	7,442	6,805
Degerfors landskommun Vindelns landskommun	3,426	4.064	5,358	6,269	7,392	7,998	8,190	8,707	9,182	9,277	9,302	9,463	10,055	10,073	10,455	9,834	8,492	7,619
Dorotea landskommun	1,556	1,848	2,104	2,337	3.210	3,853	4,357	4,724	4,985	5,239	5,574	5,797	5,866	5,919	5,716	5,341	4,710	4,099
Fredrika landskommun	1,050	761	923	1,069	1,224	1,424	1,493	1,557	1,560	1,631	1,752	1,807	1,818	1,734	1,674	1,603	1,386	1,081
Holmöns landskommun									431	422	392	344	346	296	278	258	223	177
Holmsunds landskommun Holmsunds köping								4,443	4,839	5,217	5,146	4,628	5,024	5,294	5,379	5,231	5,481	6.107
Hörnefors landskommun							3,685	3.816	4.022	3,929	3,922	3,897	3,832	3,873	3,734	3,605	3,342	3,345
Jörns landskommun	1,504	2,000	2,403	2,996	3,805	4,409	4,740	5,306	5,777	5,850	5,779	5,689	5,682	5,530	5.125	4,801	4,275
Lövångers landskommun	3.713	3,824	3,926	4,075	4.166	4.191	4,290	4,498	4,621	4,655	4,613	4,726	4,792	4,704	4,441	4,075	3,671	3,202
Lycksele köping Lycksele stad										1,726	1,798	1,944	2,881	3,413	4,307	5,744	6,087	13,724
Lycksele landskommun	4,303	5,261	5,783	6,644	7.106	7,971	8,346	8,977	10,395	9.008	9,570	10,573	10,841	10,385	10,295	9,647	8,168	(*)
Malå landskommun	680	896	1,352	2,033	2,521	2,895	3,120	3,270	3,603	3,782	4.112	4,538	5,146	5,259	5,372	5,169	4,797	4,662
North Malings landskommun	5,289	6.006	7,051	8,021	9,726	10.172	8,480	8,656	9,010	9,265	9,437	9,783	10,229	10,403	10.118	9,550	8,703	8,159
Norsjö landskommun	2.137	2,516	3,268	4.113	4,930	5,717	6,084	6,517	6,725	6,846	6,967	7.187	7.506	7,457	7,451	7,627	6,836	6.230
Nysätra landskommun	3,058	2,903	3,070	3,309	3,412	3,474	3,592	3.814	3,797	3,777	3,798	3,871	3,921	3,747	3,468	3,287	2,929	2,576
Örträsks landskommun					989	1,124	1,152	1,233	1,248	1,226	1,233	1,231	1,247	1,238	1,223	1,227	1,061	895
Sävars landskommun	2,911	3,248	3,560	3,763	3.710	3,794	3,848	3,906	3,509	3,425	3,493	3,600	3,600	3,529	3,531	3,342	3,392	3,802
Skellefteå landskommun	16,245	18,388	15,702	17.122	19,754	22,336	18,970	19,945	21,041	22,867	26,203	24,241	24,830	25,230	20,851	21,100	20,880
Skellefteå stad				1.166	1,279	1,442	2,282	2,984	3,526	5,203	8,143	10,230	12,209	14,065	20,821	22,749	24,609	61,912
Sorsele landskommun	1,437	1,590	1,949	2,493	2,933	3,440	3,750	4.181	4,775	5,265	5,587	5,982	6.178	6.132	5,983	5,717	5.012	4,316
Stensele landskommun	1,817	2.167	2,827	3,368	4.119	3,576	3,866	4,675	5,739	6.219	6.371	6,753	7.123	7.120	8,811	8,336	7,497	6,802
Tärna landskommun						1,482	1,596	1,723	1,870	1.932	2,083	2,155	2.172	2,047	2,028	2,102	2,187	1,966
Umeå landskommun	10,229	11,027	12,054	13,367	15,998	17,758	16,579	13,184	13,336	13,439	13,899	14,377	14,999	16,177	18,528	19,356
Umeå stad	1,855	2,565	2,818	3.223	3,883	5,859	6,415	6,976	9,766	11,138	12,479	13,706	15,441	17.113	19.092	22,623	48,858	56,151
Vännäs köping										1,790	1,693	1,888	2,492	3,075	3,440	4.010	3,915	4.145
Vännäs landskommun	2,746	2,927	3,282	3,951	5,326	5,975	6.187	6,820	7,038	5,320	5,257	5,342	5,217	5,095	5,355	4,684	4,160	3,978
Vilhelmina köping														1,998	2,242	3,004	9,715	8,657
Vilhelmina landskommun	3,184	3,662	4,660	5,419	6,578	7,368	8,172	9,405	9,925	10.210	10,602	10,897	11,161	8,896	8,491	8,307

Remarks

• Municipalities that emerged directly from one another in the chronological sequence through a change in type and / or renaming are, in contrast to the first table, summarized in one row each; the transition is marked by a thicker border between the table columns.
• In 1860 or partly in 1870, the communities did not yet exist; For comparison purposes, the number of inhabitants of the administrative unit from which the municipality later emerged is given (usually parishes / socks that corresponded in size to the municipalities; possibly in the sum of several).
• Missing information means that the municipality did not exist that year (see first table).
• (*) Lycksele landskommun 1970: although the rural community still existed parallel to the urban community at that time, the number of inhabitants was only recorded together, see under Lycksele stad.

literature

• Per Andersson: Sveriges kommunindelning 1863–1993 . Draking, Mjölby 1993, ISBN 91-87784-05-X (Swedish).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Data from Statistiska centralbyrån (Swedish Central Statistical Office):
   • Bidrag till Sveriges officiella statistics. A. Compliance statistics. (Each Andra afdelningen / Department II, PDF for 1860 , 1870 , 1880 , 1890 , 1900 )
   • Folkmängden inom administrativa områden December 31, 1910. ( PDF , as well as the following for 1915 , 1920 , 1925 , 1930 , 1935 , 1940 , 1945 , 1950 , 1955 )
   • 1960–1970 according to Folkmängd 31 dec 1950–1975 i län, communer och församlingar enligt communindelningen 1 jan 1976. ( PDF )