Smålandsstenar

Smålandsstenar lies in Gislaved municipality in Småland and is an old railway community on the line between Halmstad and Nässjö, with just over 4,500 inhabitants.

Daily life is compact. Most people live within walking distance but not close to the grocery store, school and railway station, while the major road and the forest lie directly across the street from many houses. The town has three grocery stores, a library, a cinema, a health centre and a pharmacy, and a café and a couple of petrol stations are only a minute's walk away. There is neither a restaurant nor a hotel in Smålandsstenar, the nearest are some distance away by car.

The attraction Smålands stenar is right here. Otherwise the nature reserves are some distance away by car, while lakes such as Borlången can be reached by bike or car. About sixty sites in the town count as contaminated land, and the flood risk lies a couple of minutes' walk from the centre.

By car it takes half an hour to Gislaved, two and a half hours to Malmö, two hours to Gothenburg and five and a half hours to Stockholm.

In the area around Smålandsstenar almost a quarter are under twenty and just over one in five is 65 or older. Among the associations and venues are Equmenia Smålandsstenar, Smålandsstenar simhall, the library and PRO Smålandsstenar.

Smålandsstenar belongs to a municipality where only about fifteen percent have at least three years of post-secondary education, one of the lowest shares in the country, but the median income is still well above the national municipal median. The jobs here have seldom required a degree, and they have paid reasonably well.

Smålandsstenar suits someone who wants to live simply near the railway, with the essentials in place and Gislaved half an hour away by car. Anyone who needs a wider range of restaurants, hotels or entertainment must expect to travel elsewhere.