About half of the municipal population live in Gnosjö town, the rest is spread between smaller localities, and rural areas.

Despite its small size of some 1,100 people at the time, it had been the subject of a book describing its customs and locals in 1906 (F.J.E.

The Store Mosse is a national park consisting of the largest boggy ground (in Sweden) south of Lapland.

Near Hillerstorp is a small but nationally renowned amusement park called High Chaparral offering Wild West experiences.

There is, in Gnosjö town, a small museum of the local industrial history, in this case a mechanical workshop.