urban area in Högsby Municipality
Fågelfors
Short answer: Fågelfors is in Högsby Municipality, Kalmar County. It has 368 residents.
Living here
Fågelfors is a built-up area with just under 370 inhabitants in Högsby municipality in Småland, Kalmar county. The village is the church village of Fågelfors parish, and the church is within walking distance but not close to the centre.
Most of what is needed is not in the village. The grocery shop Tempo is a couple of minutes' walk away for most, but the school and the railway station are very far away, so a car is needed. There is a hostel and a pensioners' association, Fågelfors PRO. Industry is a couple of minutes' walk away, and a major road runs right next to the plots. Several contaminated sites are in the area, the nearest a couple of minutes' walk away.
The forest is just across the road and the fields a couple of minutes' walk away. The lake Övresjön is a couple of minutes' walk away, and Klobosjön and the bathing place are within walking distance but not close. A water protection area lies a couple of minutes' walk from the centre.
It takes a quarter of an hour by car to Högsby, the municipality's main town. The neighbouring villages Berga and Mörlunda are further away. It takes five hours to Stockholm and four hours each to Göteborg and Malmö. The surrounding area is ageing: just over one in three inhabitants is over sixty-five and fewer than one in five is under twenty. The village suits someone who seeks stillness, forest and lake and has a car, but not someone who needs a school, a train or a job market nearby.
Draft. Based on a place profile from Lantmäteriet, SCB, OpenStreetMap, Wikipedia and the municipality's register of associations. To be reviewed before publication.
Facts
What it is like to live here
median in the locality
Median across 351 properties in the locality. Index is percentile 0-100 against all properties in Sweden.
Age distribution
Population 2025 from Statistics Sweden for the statistical area (DeSO) covering Fågelfors, 1,040 inhabitants in total. The locality itself has 368 inhabitants. A statistical area follows no locality boundary, so the figures describe the area around the locality, not the locality alone.
From here and away
Modelled car route (MOTIS), not a navigator's ETA — the figures run systematically high but are comparable between localities. Destinations not listed are more than six hours away.
Lakes nearby
Nearest localities
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.
Surroundings
Distances are measured from the locality's centre to the nearest point in the layer, capped at 50 km. Counts are exact within the locality boundary. A layer not listed has nothing within the cap.
The figures describe the municipality, not the locality. The municipality page has tax, housing mix, schools and commuting.