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Tyresö Municipality - Subdivisions

There are no administrative subdivisions of Tyresö municipality, but there are some other formal and less formal subdivisions.

Tyresö Municipality - Districts

There are three main districts in Tyresö. This is a kind of everyday reference subdivision to refer to the different main parts of the municipality.

• Bollmora in the northwest — consisting of apartment buildings of about 2-8 stories high, terraced houses and detached houses and some industrial areas. The municipal centre, Tyresö centre, is located here.
• Trollbäcken in west — consisting mostly of detached houses.
• Old Tyresö (Gamla Tyresö) in east and south — in east consisting of detached, semi–detached, and terraced houses, and summer cottages, of which a large part are being converted to year-around living standard. The Tyresö castle and Tyresö church from 17th century are located here. In the south there is a large forest, containing about half of the Tyresta National Park on the Tyresö side.

Tyresö Municipality - Urban areas

Population of urban areas within municipal borders, as of 2000

• Brevik peninsula: 1,556
• Raksta: 537
• Stockholm (part of): 36,483

Tyresö Municipality - Residential areas

Number or inhabitants per residential area as of January 1, 2004

• Trollbäcken: 11,715
• Bollmora: 8,494
• Krusboda: 3,717
• Tyresö Strand: 2,874
• East Tyresö: 2,721
• East/West Farmarstigen: 2,668
• Öringe: 2,548
• Granängsringen: 2,187
• Fårdala: 1,657
• Lindalen: 1,445
• unspecified: 71
• Total: 40,097

Adapted from the Wikipedia article "Subdivisions", under the G.N U Free Docmentation License. Please also see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki