The present municipality was created in 1971 when the City of Filipstad was merged with the rural municipalities of Kroppa, Rämmen and Värmlandsberg.

With at least 200 inhabitants: This is a demographic table based on Filipstad 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 10,387 residents with 7,763 Swedish citizen adults eligible to vote.

[3] Filipstad is generally a low-income municipality, with low attainment of university degrees and about 22% were of foreign background.

[3] Indicators are in percentage points except population totals and income.