Vårsta
Short answer: Vårsta is in Botkyrka Municipality, Stockholm County. It has 2,396 residents.
Living here
Vårsta is a built-up area in Botkyrka municipality in Stockholm County, with just under 2,400 inhabitants. Services are limited: ICA Nära Vårsta is the food shop, Klockargårdens Våffleri is the restaurant and Vårsta Bibliotek is in the town.
Four schools are within three kilometres, Kassmyraskolan, Uttrans skola, Broängsskolan and Malmsjö skola, but no preschool. There are about ten playgrounds, and Vårsta strandpark, Ensta ö and Vinterskogen. Vårstakyrkan and Grödinge kyrka are the churches there, and Botkyrka GK has a café.
In the area around the town, a quarter are over 65 and a little over half are unmarried. About one in nine is divorced.
Botkyrka has high unemployment, a little over eight percent compared with a little over four and a half for a typical Swedish municipality. The police classify Fittja, Hallunda and Norsborg, and Alby, as particularly vulnerable areas and Storvreten as vulnerable, all in the municipality.
Vårsta suits someone who wants a small town with greenery nearby. Anyone who needs shops, restaurants and healthcare nearby has to travel from here.
Draft. Based on a place profile from Lantmäteriet, SCB, OpenStreetMap, Wikipedia and the municipality's register of associations. To be reviewed before publication.
Facts
This locality has no boundary of its own in Statistics Sweden's urban-area classification, so no measurable place profile exists. The figures above describe its location and municipality.
Age distribution
Population 2025 from Statistics Sweden for the statistical area (DeSO) covering Vårsta, 1,691 inhabitants in total. The locality itself has 2,396 inhabitants. A statistical area follows no locality boundary, so the figures describe the area around the locality, not the locality alone.
Associations and activities
Associations and activities carrying the locality's name, from the municipalities' own registers, the Swedish Sports Confederation and the Swedish Tax Agency. The list is not exhaustive: an association without the locality name in its name is not included.
The figures describe the municipality, not the locality. The municipality page has tax, housing mix, schools and commuting.