urban area in Ulricehamn Municipality
Dalum
Short answer: Dalum is in Ulricehamn Municipality, Västra Götaland County. It has 642 residents.
Living here
Dalum is a built-up area and church village in Dalum parish in Ulricehamn municipality in Västergötland, with just over 640 inhabitants. Ulricehamn is about ten kilometres south of the town and a car journey there takes about a quarter of an hour. Gothenburg is an hour and a half away.
Daily life is within a couple of minutes' walk for most households: the grocery store, Handlar'n Dalum, the school, Dalums skola, and a library. Here are also the care home for older people Parkgården, a petrol station and Fornstugan as a museum, and within a few kilometres a health centre and the restaurant Hermans lada. Water is a couple of minutes' walk away, and the lakes Viesjön and Vinsarpasjön are a bike or car ride away. The railway station is far away and requires a car. Several soil contaminations are registered, the nearest a couple of minutes' walk away.
Associational life consists of a village association, a local heritage association, a disc golf park and a church. The area around the town has an even age distribution, with about a quarter under twenty and the same share over sixty-five. The nearest neighbouring towns are Blidsberg with just over 500 inhabitants and Timmele with just under 800, both a bike or car ride away.
Dalum suits someone who wants the countryside with a shop and a school in the town and accepts a car for work and trains. Anyone who wants a broad range of services will have to go into Ulricehamn or Borås.
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 276 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 Dalum, 1,213 inhabitants in total. The locality itself has 642 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.