Municipality-based statistical units

Municipality-based statistical units are municipalities, sub-regional units, regions, major regions, Regional State Administrative Agencies (AVI), Centres for Economic Development, Transport and the Environment (ELY), wellbeing services counties and electoral districts. Maintenance of working areas was discontinued on 31 December 2023.

Municipality-based statistical units correspond to the regional divisions used in the statistics of the statistical reference year concerned.

The dataset can be used directly in Paikkatietoikkuna or by means of interface addresses in geographic information software.

A more detailed description of the data in Paikkatietohakemisto

Service data

Data formate.g. ESRI Shapefile, GeoJSON

Data delivery methodDataset used in Paikkatietoikkuna, interface

Regional divisionmunicipality, sub-regional unit, wellbeing services county, region, other municipality-based division

Data for2013–2025

Next estimated updateFebruary 2026

Terms of Use

Map view

A map from Paikkatietoikkuna containing all municipality-based statistical areas. By default, only municipalities are shown. Other regional divisions can be retrieved from the map level menu.

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View the dataset in Paikkatietoikkuna

Interface service addresses

Use these addresses to access the interface services in the GIS software.

Instructions for the interface use of geographic datasets

Contact information

Service email

sijaintipalvelut@stat.fi

Also view the following

Population by municipality-based units

Geographic data

Most detailed area level: Municipality

The geographic dataset provides data on the number of the population according to municipality-based statistical areas.