urban area in Oskarshamn Municipality
Bockara
Short answer: Bockara is in Oskarshamn Municipality, Kalmar County. It has 334 residents.
Living here
Bockara is a built-up area in Oskarshamn municipality in Småland. National road 37 passes straight through the town, and along it lie villas, a church and a school. Between 2015 and 2020 the town also had a part in Högsby municipality. Just under 350 people live here, and Oskarshamn is a quarter of an hour away by car.
Bockara kyrka is within walking distance but not close, and a petrol station is a couple of minutes' walk away. Most other things require a car: the grocery shop is several kilometres away, and so is the railway station. Hagsjön is within walking distance but not close, forest across the road and farmland a couple of minutes' walk away. Most people live right next to a major road. Eight contaminated sites are registered in the town, the nearest a couple of minutes' walk from the centre. The nearest neighbouring town is Berga.
The surrounding area has an even age distribution: one in four is a pensioner, about as many are between forty-five and sixty-four, and just under one in four is under twenty.
Bockara suits someone who wants to live quietly along the national road with a car to shop and train and Oskarshamn within commuting distance.
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 207 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 Bockara, 2,426 inhabitants in total. The locality itself has 334 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.