Hjärup

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Hjärup / Jakriborg
New houses soon ready to receive their tenants in 1991 Jakriborg
Hjärup / Jakriborg
Coordinates: 55°40′N 13°10′E / 55.667°N 13.167°E / 55.667; 13.167Coordinates: 55°40′N 13°10′E / 55.667°N 13.167°E / 55.667; 13.167
Country Sweden
Province Skåne
County Skåne County
Municipality Staffanstorp Municipality
Area[1]
  Total 1.70 km2 (0.66 sq mi)
Population (31 December 2010)[1]
  Total 4,265
  Density 2,510/km2 (6,500/sq mi)
Time zone CET (UTC+1)
  Summer (DST) CEST (UTC+2)

Hjärup is, with its more than 4,250 inhabitants, the second largest locality in Staffanstorp Municipality, Skåne County, Sweden.

Hjärup has a station on the Skåne commuter rail system. The locality has a suburban character with semi-detached houses initially built in the 1960s1970s on Lundaslätten, the fertile plain south of Lund, initially on land sold off from the farm Hjerup. Hjärup was until the 1990s confined in between the railway and the main road MalmöLund. On the other side of the railway, adjacent to Hjärup's station, a district called Jakriborg is now growing.

Hjärup consists of about 1,600 households (2005) with public services chiefly limited to preschools, schools and old people's home, as virtually all inhabitants commute to work in the Greater Malmö metropolitan area. 400 of the dwellings are in the housing estate Jakriborg.

The distance to Lund is 5 km by bike, bus or car or 3 minutes by train.

The distance to Malmö is about 15 km or 10 minutes by train.

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 "Tätorternas landareal, folkmängd och invånare per km2 2005 och 2010" (in Swedish). Statistics Sweden. 14 December 2011. Archived from the original on 10 January 2012. Retrieved 10 January 2012. 
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