Sundbyberg Municipality is a municipality in Stockholm County in east central Sweden, just north of the capitalStockholm. Sundbyberg is wholly within the Stockholm urban area and has a 100% urban population. Sundbyberg was detached from Bromma in 1888 as a market town. It got the title of a city in 1927. In 1949 parts of Solna Municipality and Spånga were added. A proposed merger with Solna in 1971 was never implemented, making Sundbyberg, with an area of, the smallest municipality in Sweden, but also the most densely populated. The municipality prefers to call itself a city, which, however, has no legal significance.
History
Sundbyberg was for a long time only an area of small agriculture value and most of all used as a place to spend summer for rich families in the city. In 1863 almost the entire area was bought by Anders Petter Löfström, including Duvbo Estate, who began building houses there. In 1870 the first industrial plot was sold and from there the town did expand with railroad, houses, industries and community services of all kind. A. P. Löfström also donated to the municipality, all land for roads, streets, parks, school, church and other public areas. Sundbyberg never became a suburb but a totally independent industrial town on its own.
Industry
The roughly 50,000 inhabitants live in about 17,000 apartments. The industrial policy of the municipality is to provide one job opportunity for every apartment, thus 17,000 jobs. So unlike other municipalities in Metropolitan Stockholm, Sundbyberg is not a bedroom suburb wherefrom people commute to Stockholm, but also a place commuted to from outside. In total, 12,000 commuters travel to or from Sundbyberg every day.
Demography
Population development
Residents with a foreign background
On 31 December 2017 the number of people with a :sv:utländsk bakgrund|foreign background was 20 229, or 40.93% of the population. On 31 December 2002 the number of residents with a foreign background was 8 531, or 25.24% of the population. On 31 December 2017 there were 49 424 residents in Sundbyberg, of which 14 954 people were born in a country other than Sweden. Divided by country in the table below - the Nordic countries as well as the 12 most common countries of birth outside of Sweden for Swedish residents have been included, with other countries of birth bundled together by continent by Statistics Sweden.
Sundbyberg commutertrain.jpg|Sundbyberg is served by commuter trains Esplanaden17.jpg|Apartment block from 1911 in Central Sundbyberg Lötsjön Sundbyberg.jpg|Lötsjön Rissnetbana.jpg|Metro station in Rissne Ursvik_2009a.jpg|Residential buildings in Stora Ursvik
