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Facts about Stenungsund

The municipality of Stenungsund was formed in 1952 by combining the small municipalities of Norum, Spekeröd, Ucklum and Ödsmål. It then had 4.700 inhabitants. In 1971 Jörlanda and Stora Höga were included. The municipality covers an area of 254 square kilometres.

Today Stenungsund is an established industrial municipality with just over 23,000 inhabitants.

40 percent of the working population is employed in the petro-chemical industry.

4,000 people commute daily to their work in Stenungsund. Almost as many have chosen to settle in Stenungsund and commute elsewhere, principally to Göteborg.

In recent years Stenungsund has been the most expansive municipality in the country. Why is this? It is because Stenungsund is a municipality in which it is easy to have a good life.