Lomma Municipality

Lomma Municipality Lomma kommun
Municipality
Coat of arms
Coordinates: 55°40′N 13°05′E
Country	Sweden
County	Skåne County
Seat	Lomma
Area
• Total	90.2 km2 (34.8 sq mi)
• Land	55.52 km2 (21.44 sq mi)
• Water	34.68 km2 (13.39 sq mi)
	Area as of 1 January 2014.
Population  (31 December 2023)
• Total	24,627
• Density	270/km2 (710/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
ISO 3166 code	SE
Province	Scania
Municipal code	1262
Website	lomma.se

Lomma Municipality (Swedish: Lomma kommun) is a municipality in Skåne County in southern Sweden, about 10 km north of Malmö. Its seat is located in Lomma with secondary locality Bjärred being of almost equal population size.

The present municipality was created through the amalgamation of the market town Lomma and the rural municipality Flädie. It took place in 1963, between the two nationwide local government reforms of 1952 and 1971.

Geography

The harbour in Lomma

The small municipality borders to Kävlinge Municipality, Burlöv Municipality, Staffanstorp Municipality and Lund Municipality. As Burlöv also is notably small, Lomma Municipality almost borders to Malmö Municipality too.

It is situated by Öresund, at the inlet of the small river Höje å. Along the river lies a yacht marina. In the old industrial area along the river new appartements and villas are erected, with some facing the river or the beach. The beaches along its coasts also attract visitors from other municipalities; Lomma Municipality's beaches are the principal beaches for people from the beach-less Lund.

10 kilometres (6.2 mi) to the north-east is the university city of Lund, with some 80,000 inhabitants, about the same distance as to Malmö (with its 285,000 inhabitants) to the south. Lomma Municipality is also considered part of Metropolitan Malmö, showing itself for instance by the 6,500 commuters that live in there. Travelling to and from Lomma Municipality is easy, as a main highway actually passes straight through the town of Lomma, connecting with Lund and Malmö, and with other cities to the north.

Geologically, its terrain is almost completely flat levelled, which is the custom for south-western Skåne as a whole. The highest location in Lomma Municipality is 40 metres (130 ft) above sea level.

Localities

There were three localities in the municipality as of 2018.

Localities	Population
Lomma	12,368
Bjärred	9,844
Flädie	231

Of note is also Alnarp, where one of the main campuses of the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences is located.

Demographics

This is a demographic table based on Lomma 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 24,615 residents, including 17,944 Swedish citizens of voting age. 38.4% voted for the left coalition and 60.8% for the right coalition. Indicators are in percentage points except population totals and income.

Location Residents Citizen
adults Left vote Right vote Employed Swedish
parents Foreign
heritage Income
SEK Degree % % Bjärehov NO 2,274 1,741 35.3 64.1 84 92 8 37,263 80 Bjärred NÖ-Flädie 2,178 1,551 41.3 57.9 83 84 16 31,283 67 Bjärred S-Önnerup 2,028 1,515 31.9 67.4 84 92 8 42,469 79 Borgeby-Löddesnäs Ö 2,085 1,395 38.6 60.8 86 85 15 37,690 76 Båtgatorna-Fågelstaden 1,847 1,295 41.7 57.1 88 91 9 38,386 74 Karstorp-Alnarp 1,633 1,129 41.6 58.0 75 84 16 29,667 63 Lervik 2,218 1,443 37.3 61.9 88 84 16 34,952 63 Lomma C 1,982 1,614 42.3 57.1 80 84 16 25,953 66 Lomma Hamn 2,328 1,912 32.1 67.4 87 90 10 36,512 67 Lomma N 2,236 1,630 38.1 60.8 82 85 15 30,271 56 Löddesnäs V 1,940 1,386 43.3 56.1 87 90 10 36,661 80 Piläng 1,866 1,333 43.5 55.4 87 88 12 33,692 67 Source: SVT

History

The area where Lomma Municipality is now is located between two small rivers, and was inhabited by hunters in the Stone Age. The name Lomma can be traced to 1085, and in the ensuing centuries it established some wealth thanks to merchancy with the episcopal see in Lund.

Lomma church

Nonetheless, the area was only a village until Sweden's first cement works was established in 1871. The ground consists of a certain clay stemming from the last ice age, and is available in large quantities in Lomma Municipality. A fully fledged industry was started in the 1860s, and by the end of the century Lomma Municipality had five brick factories. The bricks from Lomma are yellow of appearance and were regarded as the highest kind of bricks during that century. One church built with those bricks is the church in Lomma, (Lomma kyrka), a large neo Gothic church that was finished in the 1870s.

The coat of arms depicts an anchor - showing the importance of the harbour - and a brick wall, indicating that Lomma Municipality once actually had city rights as well as its brick industry.

See also

• Municipalities of Sweden

External links

• Official website
• (in Swedish) article Lomma (municipalsamhälle) From Nordisk familjebok