urban area in Hallstahammar Municipality
Västra Hallstahammar
Short answer: Västra Hallstahammar is in Hallstahammar Municipality, Västmanland County. It has 478 residents.
Living here
Västra Hallstahammar is a built-up area in Hallstahammar municipality in Västmanland, west of Kolbäcksån and north-west of central Hallstahammar. It consists of the districts Lustigkulla and Gröndal and was delimited as a separate built-up area by SCB only in 2018. Just under 500 people live here.
The town is joined to Hallstahammar, the municipality's main town, which is a couple of minutes' walk away. For that reason most things are close. The grocery shop and railway station are within walking distance but not close, and the school is somewhat further away. The nearest lake, Skanssjön, is a couple of minutes' walk away. In the area there are, among other things, Lidl and ICA Supermarket, a library, a cinema, an ice rink, a theatre, Skantzen Kanalmuseum and three pizzerias. Woodland is close, the railway is within walking distance but not close, and industry is a couple of minutes' walk away.
It is a few minutes to Hallstahammar, almost two hours to Stockholm and five hours to Göteborg. The nearest neighbouring towns are Hallstahammar and Södra Hallstahammar. The area around the town has a mixed age distribution, with a quarter under twenty and under a quarter aged over sixty-five.
The town suits someone who wants the daily life of a mill town close at hand with Stockholm within commuting distance. Anyone who wants the sea or mountain scenery around the corner 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 191 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 Västra Hallstahammar, 1,676 inhabitants in total. The locality itself has 478 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.