Parking Fines
This is a league table of where parking fines are issued in Sweden: per street, per municipality and per year. The figures come from the national register of parking violations kept by Transportstyrelsen, the Swedish Transport Agency, never from estimates. 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. The street is also where the fine-risk question belongs.
The figures come from the 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 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 rather than risk a wrong merge.
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.
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.