RegSO is a nation-wide breakdown that follows county and municipal boundaries, current refers to 2025-01-01. The delimitations can be freely downloaded as open geodata.

The first version of RegSO was published in 2020 and is based upon DeSO 2018. Municipal boundary refers to 2018-01-01.

At the beginning of 2025, a new version of RegSO was published. All statistics published in 2025 are on the new version RegSO 2025. Tables going back in time will not be updated with statistics on the new version.

The tables are available here: RegSO i Statistikdatabasen (In Swedish)

You can read more about RegSO and the difference between the versions here: More information on RegSO – Regional Statistical Areas (In Swedish)

Changes between RegSO 2020 and RegSO 2025

Historical changes in RegSO (xlsx) (in Swedish)

Connection between DeSO – RegSO

Connection table DeSO – RegSO (xlsx) (in Swedish)

Available variables

RegSO areas are represented as polygons with attribute information about county and municipality.

 How you may use Statistics Sweden´s open geodata 

Geospatial data services

All Statistics Sweden’s open geospatial data are available through WMS and WFS services for direct access in GIS clients. The datasets are available in the following Services:

WMS (Web Map Service)

https://geodata.scb.se/geoserver/stat/wms?service=wms&version=1.3.0&request=GetCapabilities 

WFS (Web Feature Service)

https://geodata.scb.se/geoserver/stat/wfs?service=wfs&version=1.1.0&request=GetCapabilities

A guide on how to connect to the services is available in SCB:s öppna geodata via WMS- och WFS-tjänster (pdf) (in Swedish).

Download geospatial data

If you prefer to download the data in geopackage format, you can use the links below.

RegSO 2025:

https://geodata.scb.se/geoserver/stat/wfs?service=WFS&REQUEST=GetFeature&version=1.1.0&TYPENAMES=stat:RegSO_2025&outputFormat=geopackage

RegSO 2020:

https://geodata.scb.se/geoserver/stat/wfs?service=WFS&REQUEST=GetFeature&version=1.1.0&TYPENAMES=stat:RegSO_2020&outputFormat=geopackage

Contact

E-mail: uppdrag@scb.se