:Norddjurs Municipality
{{Infobox settlement
| name = Norddjurs Municipality
| settlement_type = Municipality
| native_name = {{native name|da|Norddjurs Kommune}}
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| image_skyline = Grenaa Freizeithafen.JPG
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| map_caption = Location in Denmark
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| subdivision_type = Country
| subdivision_name = Denmark
| subdivision_type1 = Region
| subdivision_name1 = Central Denmark
| established_title = Established
| established_date = {{#property:P571}}
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| leader_title = Mayor
| leader_name = {{#property:P6}}
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| area_total_km2 = 721.2
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| population_as_of = 1. January 2025
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| population_footnotes = [https://m.statbank.dk/TableInfo/BY2?lang=en BY2: Population 1. January by municipalities] The Mobile Statbank from Statistics Denmark
| population_total = 36658
| population_density_km2 = auto
| timezone = CET
| utc_offset = +1
| timezone_DST = CEST
| utc_offset_DST = +2
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| postal_code = {{#property:P281}}
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Norddjurs Municipality ({{langx|da|Norddjurs Kommune}}) is a municipality (Danish, kommune) in Region Midtjylland in Denmark. It covers an area of 721.2 km² and has a population of 36,658 (1. January 2025).
On 1 January 2007 Norddjurs municipality was created as the result of Kommunalreformen ("The Municipal Reform" of 2007), consisting of the former municipalities of Grenå, Nørre Djurs and Rougsø, along with the eastern part of Sønderhald municipality. It includes the island of Anholt in its extreme northeast.
The municipality is part of Business Region Aarhus and of the East Jutland metropolitan area, which had a total population of 1.378 million in 2016.{{cite web|url=https://businessregionaarhus.com/our-partnership/our-partnership/what-is-business-region-aarhus//|title=What is Business Region Aarhus|publisher=businessregionaarhus.dk|access-date=15 January 2019}}{{cite web|title=Tal og statistik|trans-title=Figures and Statistics|url=http://www.byregionoestjylland.dk/Statistik.html|publisher=Byregion Østjylland|access-date=25 April 2016|language=da|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160427191257/http://byregionoestjylland.dk/Statistik.html|archive-date=27 April 2016|url-status=dead}}
Locations
class="wikitable" style="margin-right:1em" | |
Grenaa | align="center"| 14,000 |
Auning | align="center"| 2,900 |
Allingåbro | align="center"| 1,800 |
Ørsted | align="center"| 1,400 |
Trustrup | align="center"| 790 |
Vivild | align="center"| 790 |
Bønnerup Strand | align="center"| 740 |
Ørum | align="center"| 700 |
Glesborg | align="center"| 580 |
Politics
=Municipal council=
Norddjurs' municipal council consists of 27 members, elected every four years.
Below are the municipal councils elected since the Municipal Reform of 2007.
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! rowspan="2"| Election ! colspan="8"| Party ! rowspan="2"| Total ! rowspan="2"| Turnout ! rowspan="2"| Elected |
style="background:#B5211D;"|Social Democrats (Denmark)
|style="background:#89A920;"|Conservative People's Party (Denmark) |style="background:#C9096C;"|Socialist People's Party (Denmark) |style="background:#1CB1B7;"|Liberal Alliance (Denmark) |style="background:#8B8989;"|{{tooltip|2=Borgerlisten Norddjurs|{{font color|white|L}}}} |style="background:#F4D44D;"|Danish People's Party |style="background:#254C85;"|Venstre (Denmark) |style="background:#FF0000;"|Red-Green Alliance (Denmark) |
2005
|11 |1 |1 |style="background:#CDC9C9;" rowspan="2"| |3 |1 |10 |style="background:#CDC9C9;" rowspan="2"| |rowspan="4"|27 |69.2% |Torben Jensen (L) |
2009
|11 |1 |3 |4 |2 |6 |66.2% |rowspan="3"|Jan Petersen (A) |
2013
|11 |1 |1 |2 |2 |2 |6 |2 |70.4% |
2017
|11 |2 |2 |2 |style="background:#CDC9C9;" | |3 |6 |1 |69.0% |
colspan="14"|Data from [https://www.kmdvalg.dk/kv/2005/adk.htm Kmdvalg.dk 2005], [https://www.kmdvalg.dk/kv/2009/adk.htm 2009], [https://www.kmdvalg.dk/kv/2013/Default.htm 2013] and [https://www.kmdvalg.dk/kv/2017/KMDValgKV.html 2017] |
Parishes
Sources
- Municipal statistics: [https://web.archive.org/web/20070812152043/http://www2.netborger.dk/Kommunefakta/ NetBorger Kommunefakta], delivered from [http://www.kmd.dk/ KMD] aka Kommunedata (Municipal Data)
- Municipal mergers and neighbors: [https://web.archive.org/web/20071011050224/http://kommune.eniro.dk/danmarkskort/ Eniro new municipalities map]
References
{{Reflist}}
External links
{{Commons category|Norddjurs Kommune|Norddjurs Municipality}}
- {{Official website|http://www.norddjurs.dk/|Norddjurs municipality's official website}} {{in lang|da}}
{{Norddjurs Municipality}}
{{Geographic location
| Centre = Norddjurs
| N = Treå Mølle Bay (Kattegat)
| E = Kattegat
| S = Syddjurs
| W = Randers
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{{Central Denmark Region}}
{{Municipalities of Denmark}}
{{Authority control}}
Category:Municipalities of the Central Denmark Region
Category:Municipalities of Denmark
Category:Populated places established in 2007
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