small locality in Gotland Municipality
Hangvar
Short answer: Hangvar is in Gotland Municipality, Gotland County. It has 68 residents.
Living here
Hangvar is a small built-up area (småort) on Gotland with 68 inhabitants. Association life is clear for the size of the place: a community hall (bygdegård) with a community hall association, a sports club with football, a pensioners' association with dancing and Hangvars kyrka. A grocery shop and school are not within three kilometres. The area around the place is older than the rest of the country: just under one in three is over sixty-five, and about one in six is under twenty. Hangvar suits those who want to live in a small place with the community hall as a meeting place and a car for everything else.
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 51 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 Hangvar, 2,076 inhabitants in total. The locality itself has 68 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.