urban area in Kristinehamn Municipality
Bäckhammar
Short answer: Bäckhammar is in Kristinehamn Municipality, Värmland County. It has 281 residents.
Living here
Bäckhammar is a town and works village in Kristinehamn municipality in Värmland with 281 inhabitants, eighteen kilometres south of the centre of Kristinehamn.
The food shop, Nyvalls Livs, is a couple of minutes' walk from most houses, and a petrol station is also nearby. The school, on the other hand, is a car journey of several kilometres, and so is the railway station. Bäckhammars bygderåd and a pensioners' association, PRO, make up the associations.
What is nearby is both water and disturbance. Forest lies right next to most houses and water is a couple of minutes' walk away, while a power line and industry are also a couple of minutes' walk away, and the main road runs across the road. Contaminated land is registered in the village, the nearest a couple of minutes' walk from the centre. The railway is far away.
Kristinehamn is a quarter of an hour away by car, Gothenburg three and a half hours and Stockholm four. The area around the village is much older than the country as a whole: one in three is over sixty-five and only just under two in ten are under twenty.
Bäckhammar suits someone who wants to live in the works village with a shop within walking distance. It suits less well families with children and anyone who wants to take the train.
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 170 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 Bäckhammar, 1,952 inhabitants in total. The locality itself has 281 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.