The present municipality was formed in 1971, when the market town (köping) Boxholm (itself instituted in 1947) was amalgamated with Södra Göstring and a parish (Rinna) from the dissolved municipality of Folkunga.

This is a demographic table based on Boxholm Municipality's electoral districts in the 2022 Swedish general election sourced from SVT's election platform, in turn taken from SCB official statistics.

[3] In total there were 5,511 residents, including 4,307 Swedish citizens of voting age.

The earliest human traces are from the Stone Age, circa 8000 BC.

From some later times, the Nordic Bronze Age, are several remains such as cists and gravefields.