small locality in Gotland Municipality
Garda
Short answer: Garda is in Gotland Municipality, Gotland County. It has 106 residents.
Living here
Garda is a small locality (småort) on Gotland, with just over a hundred residents. The locality has more community life than its size suggests: Garda IK for football, Garda-Lau Skyttegille, a community hall (bygdegård) and Garda kyrka. Garda skola, a petrol station and Ekbackens dansbana, listed as a sight, are also there.
Nature is close, with the nature reserves Käldänge naturreservat and Bosarve naturskogs naturreservat. Alskogs kyrka is also within reach. There is no grocery shop nearby.
The area around the locality is older than the country as a whole: one in three is over sixty-five and about one in five is under twenty. Incomes in the municipality are below the national median.
Garda suits someone who wants an active village life on Gotland with a school nearby and is used to driving to the shop.
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 112 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 Garda, 1,314 inhabitants in total. The locality itself has 106 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.