Parking Fines
This is a league table of where parking fines are issued per street, per municipality and per year. Municipality totals come from Transportstyrelsen, the Swedish Transport Agency. The tables cover fines on public streets; private-land control fees are not included.
The tables show the number of parking fines per street, per municipality and per calendar year in Sweden. A parkeringsanmarkning is the fine issued for illegal parking on public streets, that is, land covered by the Swedish road traffic fine act (lagen om felparkeringsavgift).
Control fees (kontrollavgifter) are not included. A control fee is issued on private land, for example in parking garages and on private lots, under a different act, and enters no national register. The statistics therefore describe on-street parking, not private facilities.
Municipality totals come from the national register of parking violations administered by Transportstyrelsen, the Swedish Transport Agency, released as public records on request. Every edition states its case numbers and release date, so the figures can be traced to their source. We never add, estimate or interpolate numbers.
Street-level figures come from releases by individual municipalities. This is a municipal patchwork that currently covers Gothenburg and Malmö, while municipality totals come from Transportstyrelsen. The figures therefore come from different registers and are never mixed into a single number. Every table states the edition and source it uses.
Street and municipality names are published exactly as they appear in the extract, with only whitespace normalized. We never merge streets by guesswork: if the same street appears under two spellings in the extract, it is shown as two rows instead of merging the wrong streets.
If a year is missing for a street in the extract, the cell is left empty. That means the figure was not released for that year, not that the count was zero. Totals sum only the years actually present in the extract.
If a release contains only street-level data, we sum the streets into municipality figures and label the table accordingly. Such a sum can understate the municipality's true total, since a street extract does not always cover every fine in the municipality.
A municipality gets its own page only once the extract covers at least 5 of its streets. The bar is the same for every municipality and exists so that no page ever rests on a couple of rows.
The per-resident table divides the number of fines by the municipality's population according to Statistics Sweden (31 December, published as open data under CC BY 4.0). The population year is stated next to the table and can be one year before the fine year, since the population figure is published in arrears.
The register's municipality names (for example Stockholms stad or Falu kommun) are joined to the Statistics Sweden names by rule: the legal form (kommun/stad) is removed, then a trailing genitive s is tried, and a small fixed list handles irregular genitive stems (Falu for Falun). The join requires an exact hit; a municipality that cannot be matched is excluded from the table and disclosed below it rather than guessed.
The measure deserves the same caution as the rest of the statistics: fines are issued to everyone who parks in the municipality, visitors and commuters included, while the population counts only registered residents. Municipalities with an airport, border trade or heavy inbound commuting therefore score high for reasons found in their traffic, not in miscounting.
The release of 2026-07-23 (case TSAFR 2026/641796) contains, besides the number of fines issued, how many were fully paid when Transportstyrelsen ran each yearly report. The measurement dates differ between years, and that dictates how the share may be shown.
The 2023 report was run on 2025-01-22, more than a year after year end, so its payment figures are mature. The 2024 report was run on 2025-01-02, which gives a fine issued in December 2024 only days to get paid; late payments are therefore missing from that figure and it should be read as a floor. The 2025 report carries no printed run date and was released on 2026-07-23. The payment share is therefore always presented per year together with each year's measurement date, never summed or compared straight across years, and the highest/lowest tables cover only municipalities with at least 1,000 fines issued that year, so single cases cannot drive the ranking.
Many fines on a street do not necessarily mean its drivers are more careless. It can just as well reflect how often the street is patrolled, how many people park there and how confusing the signage is. The tables show where the fines are issued; why is a different question.
Each release is published as its own edition at its own URL, so the history can be compared. Before the first release, the pages honestly state that the data has been requested but not yet released.