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New resident service

Telephone 0911-69 61 00

Summer in Piteå – long days, bright nights and nice temperature for a swim. Photo: Peter Skaugvold
Piteå Ice Arena – the perfect place to skate in the winter! Photo: P-town
Stor-Räbben is one of 550 islands in the archipelag of Piteå. Photo: Piteå kommun
Piteå with surrounding offers a great variety om housing. Photo: Piteå kommun
Piteå by night. Photo: Jens Wennström

Move to Piteå

This page gathers information for anyone considering moving to Piteå. A new page with more detailed information will be launched shortly. Until then, we hope that you can find what you are looking for here. Welcome to Piteå!

You are welcome to contact the New resident service. We´ll do all we can to help you. You´ll find our telephone number and e-mail above, klick Contact +

Are you curious about life in Piteå? Fill out our interest form here and we will contact you.

Piteå on a shoestring

Working in Piteå

Trade and industry in Piteå is both broad and varied, encompassing large, well-established employers as well as small, innovative companies across many different sectors. These include everything from the paper industry and composites to the creative and cultural industries. The town also boasts several growing and successful companies working with the green transition.

Job vacancies can be found at the following Swedish language websites:

Karriär i norr

Platsbanken

Jobba hos oss

Housing

According to a national survey on housing in Sweden, Piteå offers great value for money.

The town is surrounded by beautiful countryside with large expanses of untouched nature and many typical Norrbotten farms. Closer to the town center are older, charming residential areas with houses, rental apartments and tenant-owned apartments, as well as newly built apartment blocks in the middle of town.

More exciting projects and initiatives are underway to create more housing, by both densifying the town center and establishing new residential areas.

There are vacant homes for everyone considering moving here. Contact our new resident service and they will help you to get in touch with property owners, estate agents and land agents.

Living in Piteå

The range of cultural, leisure and outdoor activities offers both breadth and depth, with something for everyone.

Piteå's cultural hub includes Studio Acusticum, the town's concert hall and primary promoter of music, dance and other performing arts, which has even been offering a range of digital events throughout the pandemic. Piteå also has a music school, an adult education center with specialist music courses, an art gallery, the creative meeting space Kaleido and a productive theatre society - all of which contribute to a bustling cultural life.

Piteå also excels in sports, with a wide offering for the younger generations as well as several elite clubs competing in fields such as football, cross-country skiing, biathlon, handball and horse riding.

Piteå is great if you like the outdoors, with sprawling forests, magnificent mountains, a mesmerizing archipelago and distinct seasons. This makes Piteå and surrounds an exciting arena for anyone with a keen interest in nature and the outdoors – all year round.

What appeals to you? Visit visitpitea.se for the full picture. If you would like the contact details of a particular club or more information about a specific interest, please contact the new resident service, call 0911-60 61 00 or send an e-mail to inflyttarservice

For families with children

Piteå has an explicit goal of becoming Sweden's most child-friendly municipality, and we have already made good progress.

Piteå's schools maintain high quality, appearing among the top rankings in Sweden's national Best Municipality for Schools survey for many years. We invest in the people who make our schools great – the pupils, the teachers and the school leaders. Together, we are creating sustainable schools for the future, based on educational research and lifelong learning.

The broad offering at our music and dance school gives pupils the opportunity to complement their schooling with music and dance lessons.

The town and surrounds

Piteå's town center is both picturesque and compact, with water on three sides. It has a unique square from the 1600s surrounded by buildings clearly reflecting its history – small wooden townhouses. The old Norrmalm district also has a story to tell.

The municipality is expansive, with the countryside being an important part of Piteå. The municipality stretches across an area of about 31 square kilometers, somewhat smaller than Gotland but considerably larger than Luxembourg, and also has about 40 villages where some 40 percent of the municipality's population resides. Here we find thriving rural businesses, a high quality of life and plenty of room to breathe. On average, each Piteå resident has 13.7 square kilometers at their disposal.

Move to Piteå

Move to Piteå

Move to Piteå

New resident service

Move to Piteå

Piteå on a shoestring

Working in Piteå

Housing

Living in Piteå

For families with children

The town and surrounds

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