Åkarp (pronunciationⓘ) is a locality situated in Burlöv Municipality, Skåne County, Sweden with 5,617 inhabitants in 2010.

It has a railway station where the Skåne commuter rail network stops.

[citation needed] In 1120 the village was known as Acathorp, from the two words Aki (an Old Danish man's name) and torp.

[citation needed] The composer Lars-Erik Larsson was born in Åkarp in 1908.

[citation needed] This article about a location in Skåne County, Sweden is a stub.