Bagarmossen is a working/lower class district in the Skarpnäck borough

Skarpnäck borough

SkarpnäckCountry:Municipality: StockholmMunicipal part:SöderortArea:15.66 km²Population:40,707 Established:2007Website:MapSkarpnäck is a so called borough in the southern part of Stockholm, Sweden....

 of Stockholm

Stockholm

Stockholm is the capital and the largest city of Sweden and constitutes the most populated urban area in Scandinavia. Stockholm is the most populous city in Sweden, with a population of 851,155 in the municipality , 1.37 million in the urban area , and around 2.1 million in the metropolitan area...

, Sweden

Sweden

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. Bagarmossen has 10,951 inhabitants as of December 31, 2009.

Geography and transportation

Bagarmossen is located southeast of central Stockholm

Stockholm City Centre

Stockholm City Centre is the city centre of Stockholm in Sweden. The entire city of Stockholm is also the centre of the Stockholm Metropolitan Area....

. Bagarmossen neighbours the Skarpnäcks gård

Skarpnäcks Gård

thumb|220px|Skarpnäcks gårdSkarpnäcks gård is a district in Skarpnäck in Stockholm Municipality, Sweden. Skarpnäcks Gård has 10,348 inhabitants as of December 31, 2007....

 district to the south and west, Kärrtorp

Kärrtorp

Kärrtorp is a district in the Skarpnäck borough of Stockholm, Sweden,. Kärrtorp has 4,296 inhabitants as of December 31, 2009.- Geography :Kärrtorp is a small district located in the southeast of Stockholm...

 to the northwest, and the nature reserve Nackareservatet

Nackareservatet

Nackareservatet is a nature reserve along the border between Stockholm and Nacka Municipality in Sweden.The area includes small lakes. with a natural setting typical of the southern Stockholm area. There are pine trees, rocky outcrops, and wetlands with small brooks...

 in Nacka Municipality

Nacka Municipality

Nacka Municipality is a municipality in Stockholm County in east central Sweden. Its seat is located at Nacka. The municipality is situated just east of the capital Stockholm and the western parts are considered a suburban part of the Stockholm urban area.The present municipality was created in...

 to the east.

Bagarmossen is served by the Bagarmossen metro station

Bagarmossen metro station

Bagarmossen metro station is on the green line of the Stockholm Metro, located in Bagarmossen, Söderort.The current station is 19 metres below ground level and was opened on August 15, 1994 as the extension to Skarpnäck was taken into service. The old surface-level station with the same name was...

, which is located along the green line 17

Line 17 (Stockholm Metro)

Line 17 is one of the three green lines of the Stockholm Metro connecting Åkeshov and Skarpnäck. It is a 19.6 km long line with a 43 min travel time and 24 stations.-Stations:* Åkeshov* Brommaplan* Abrahamsberg* Stora Mossen* Alvik...

. When the station opened in 1958, it was a surface station and the terminus of line 17. When line 17 was extended to Skarpnäck

Skarpnäcksfältet

Skarpnäcksfältet is a subdistrict of Skarpnäcks Gård in the Skarpnäck borough of Stockholm, Sweden. Skarpnäcksfältet was built in the 1980s, and has 8,734 inhabitants as of December 31, 2009.- History :...

 in 1994, this included a new underground station in Bagarmossen, replacing the old surfaced one. Bagarmossen is also the terminus of the 161 bus line to Midsommarkransen

Midsommarkransen

Midsommarkransen is a suburban district of Stockholm with a history from 1775.The underground metro station was opened in 1964....

.

Architecture

Bagarmossen was built mostly during the 1950s, and remains a relatively well-preserved '50s suburb. The apartment buildings along Byälvsvägen were built in the early 1970s as a part of the million programme

Million Programme

The Million Programme is the common name for an ambitious housing programme implemented in Sweden between 1965 and 1974 by the governing Swedish Social Democratic Party to make sure everyone could have a home at a reasonable price. The aim of the programme was to build a million new dwellings in a...

. New apartment buildings were constructed near the metro station

Bagarmossen metro station

Bagarmossen metro station is on the green line of the Stockholm Metro, located in Bagarmossen, Söderort.The current station is 19 metres below ground level and was opened on August 15, 1994 as the extension to Skarpnäck was taken into service. The old surface-level station with the same name was...

 in the early 1990s, and in recent years, Bagarmossen has seen several new developments, mostly in the northwest.

When the area was first built in the 1950s, it received some international recognition because of the consistent separation of pedestrian and road traffic - leading to plenty of walking paths. The houses were also built to fit with the natural conditions. The courtyards

Courtyard

A court or courtyard is an enclosed area, often a space enclosed by a building that is open to the sky. These areas in inns and public buildings were often the primary meeting places for some purposes, leading to the other meanings of court....

 constructed along with the houses in the 1950s are well-designed with pines

Pine

Pines are trees in the genus Pinus ,in the family Pinaceae. They make up the monotypic subfamily Pinoideae. There are about 115 species of pine, although different authorities accept between 105 and 125 species.-Etymology:...

, spruce trees

Spruce

A spruce is a tree of the genus Picea , a genus of about 35 species of coniferous evergreen trees in the Family Pinaceae, found in the northern temperate and boreal regions of the earth. Spruces are large trees, from tall when mature, and can be distinguished by their whorled branches and conical...

 and lawns

Lawn

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.

Demographics

Bagarmossen has 10,951 inhabitants as of December 31, 2009. People with a foreign background (in this case, born outside Sweden, or with both parents born outside Sweden) constituted for 33.3% of the population. The same figure for Skarpnäck borough was 26.6%, and 28.7% for Stockholm as a whole.

The unemployment rate in Bagarmossen was 4.9% as of October 31, 2009. In comparison, the unemployment rate of the Skarpnäck borough was 3.8%, and 3.6% of Stockholm as a whole. The average income per person in Bagarmossen was 222,200 Swedish kronor in 2008, this was lower than the average income of the Skarpnäck borough, 250,200 Swedish kronor, as well as the Stockholm average of 294,500 Swedish kronor.

Stockholm municipal election, 2006

The results of the 2006 Stockholm municipal election

Stockholm municipal election, 2006

The 2006 Stockholm municipal election was held on 17 September 2006, concurrently with the 2006 Swedish general election. The election determined how many seats each party would be allocated on the 101-member Stockholm city council thorough a system of proportional representation...

 differed largely between Bagarmossen, Skarpnäck borough and Stockholm as a whole. While the centre-right Alliance for Sweden

Alliance for Sweden

The Alliance , formerly Alliance for Sweden , is a political alliance in Sweden. It consists of the four centre-right parties in the Riksdag...

 earned a majority in Stockholm, they were behind the red-greens

Red-Greens (Sweden)

The Red-Greens was the name of a co-operation of red-green political parties in Sweden, publicly launched on 7 December 2008, largely based on the Norwegian ruling Red-Green Coalition. It consisted of the three parties in the Riksdag , sitting in opposition to the Alliance coalition government...

 in both Bagarmossen and Skarpnäck borough. The voter turnout

Voter turnout

Voter turnout is the percentage of eligible voters who cast a ballot in an election . After increasing for many decades, there has been a trend of decreasing voter turnout in most established democracies since the 1960s...

 in Bagarmossen was 71.0%, compared to 76.3% in Skarpnäck borough, and 79.1% for Stockholm as a whole. Overall, the results were very similar to those of the Kärrtorp district.

	Party	Stockholm	Skarpnäck	Bagarmossen
	Social Democrats Swedish Social Democratic Party The Swedish Social Democratic Workers' Party, , contesting elections as 'the Workers' Party – the Social Democrats' , or sometimes referred to just as 'the Social Democrats' and most commonly as Sossarna ; is the oldest and largest political party in Sweden. The party was founded in 1889...  (s)	24.4%	30.6%	36.0%
	Left Party Left Party (Sweden) The Left Party is a socialist and feminist political party in Sweden, from 1967 to 1990 known as the Left Party – The Communists .On welfare issues, the party opposes privatizations...  (v)	7.9%	13.1%	15.5%
	Green Party Green Party (Sweden) -External links:**...  (mp)	9.2%	13.9%	13.0%
	Moderate Party Moderate Party The Moderate Party is a centre-right, liberal conservative political party in Sweden. The party was founded in 1904 as the General Electoral League by a group of conservatives in the Swedish parliament...  (m)	37.2%	23.2%	17.8%
	Liberal People's Party Liberal People's Party (Sweden) The Liberal People's Party is a political party in Sweden. The party advocates social liberalism and is part of the governing centre-right coalition The Alliance, which achieved a majority in the general election of 17 September 2006...  (fp)	9.6%	7.8%	5.7%
	Christian Democrats Christian Democrats (Sweden) The Christian Democrats ) is a political party in Sweden. The party was founded in 1964 but did not enter parliament until 1985 in an electoral cooperation with the Centre Party and on the Christian Democrats' own accord in 1991. The leader since April 3, 2004 is Göran Hägglund. He succeeded Alf...  (kd)	3.9%	3.5%	3.6%
	Centre Party Centre Party (Sweden) The Centre Party is a centrist political party in Sweden. The party maintains close ties to rural Sweden and describes itself as "a green social liberal party". The ideology is sometimes called agrarian, but in a European context, the Centre Party can perhaps best be characterized as social...  (c)	3.1%	2.8%	2.0%
	Other	4.5%	5.1%	6.3%

	Alliance for Sweden Alliance for Sweden The Alliance , formerly Alliance for Sweden , is a political alliance in Sweden. It consists of the four centre-right parties in the Riksdag...  (m, c, fp, kd)	53.9%	37.2%	29.1%
	Red-Green bloc Red-Greens (Sweden) The Red-Greens was the name of a co-operation of red-green political parties in Sweden, publicly launched on 7 December 2008, largely based on the Norwegian ruling Red-Green Coalition. It consisted of the three parties in the Riksdag , sitting in opposition to the Alliance coalition government... (s, v, mp)	41.5%	57.6%	64.5%