urban area in Kungsbacka Municipality
Östra Hanhals och Torkelstorp
Short answer: Östra Hanhals och Torkelstorp is in Kungsbacka Municipality, Halland County. It has 328 residents.
Living here
Östra Hanhals och Torkelstorp is a built-up area in Hanhals parish in Kungsbacka municipality in Halland, with just over 320 inhabitants. Torkelstorp merged with Östra Hanhals in 2023. Kungsbacka is half an hour away by car, Göteborg about the same and Malmö three hours.
A main road runs right next to most houses, and so does woodland. The grocery shop and school are a bike or car ride away, and the railway station requires a car, so daily life requires a car. Hanhals kyrka and a nature reserve are within walking distance but not close, and so is the railway. Within three kilometres there are the bakery Bräutigams, a Shell and Camp Gressela. The water is within walking distance but not close, and flood risk is a bike or car ride away. Some soil contaminations are registered, the nearest a couple of minutes' walk away.
Sätinge and Västra Hanhals are within walking distance but not close.
In the area around the town just over a quarter are under twenty years old and just under a fifth are over sixty-five.
Östra Hanhals och Torkelstorp suits someone who wants to live in the countryside near woodland with Göteborg half an hour away and has a car. Anyone who wants a shop, school and train nearby will have to look elsewhere.
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 138 properties in the locality. Index is percentile 0-100 against all properties in Sweden.
Age distribution
Population 2025 from Statistics Sweden for the 2 statistical areas (DeSO) covering Östra Hanhals och Torkelstorp, 3,102 inhabitants in total. The locality itself has 328 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.