Granbäcken
Short answer: Granbäcken is in Emmaboda Municipality, Kalmar County. It has 96 residents.
Living here
Granbäcken is a small locality (småort) in Emmaboda municipality in Kalmar County, with 96 inhabitants. Within cycling or driving distance there are a grocery store, Handlar´n, a preschool, Förskolan Solgläntan, a couple of cafés, among them Björkhagas Café, a restaurant, Schnitzelklubben, a Folkets hus, a playground, Lekbacken, and a school museum. A fire station in Åfors is also close.
There is no school or train station within three kilometres.
The area around the locality has many pensioners: more than a third are pensioners, and only just under a fifth are under twenty.
Granbäcken suits those who want to live in a small place with a shop and preschool nearby and who can drive for the rest. Those who seek a young environment will hardly find it 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
What it is like to live here
median in the locality
Median across 89 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 Granbäcken, 1,591 inhabitants in total. The locality itself has 96 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
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.