Arlöv

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Along the E22, Arlöv has these high-rise buildings with 9 floors.

Kronetorpsmöllan is an old preserved windmill in Arlöv.

Arlöv is the seat of Burlöv Municipality, Skåne County, Sweden. It is statistically not defined as a locality of its own, but forms part of the contiguous Malmö urban area, 5 km northeast of downtown Malmö. Out of Malmö's 250,000 inhbitants, 9,108 live in Arlöv.

Arlöv is a traditional mainroad junction where the roads from Malmö to Lund-Helsingborg (now E6 & E22) and to Dalby-Simrishamn (road 11) forked after passing the Sege å stream. Today the Malmö Outer Ringroad (E20), ending at the Öresund Bridge, cuts Arlöv off from the rest of the municipality. Arlöv was also initially the station where the railroads to Lund-Stockholm (1856-64) and Åstorp-Gothenburg (1886-88) forked, although the traffic on the latter was re-routed via Lund in 1948.

Arlöv is known for its sugar-industry, Sockerbolaget AB (owned by the Danish company Danisco). The town is the home of the Swedish Railroad Works, Aktiebolaget Svenska Järnvägsverkstäderna (ASJ), that in the 1970s also built several automobiles for SAAB, notably the Saab Sonett II and III.

Arlöv is mentioned in the song "Hanna från Arlöv" ("Hanna from Arlöv") by the Swedish 1970's band Nationalteatern.

Unfortunately, parts of Arlöv are known for being rough areas, and has a very high-crime rate. The Million Programme neighbourhood Svenshög with thirteen high-rise project buildings, has got a population of more than 3000 people, which 90 percent of them are of non-nordic heritage. In 2007, all of the gun-shootings in Arlöv, took place in Svenshög on the same street called Rapsvägen. And the neighbourhood has got a bad reputation in the city of Malmö, for being segregated and miserable. Sockerbitstorget is where some of the local-gang-meetings take place.