The municipality was formed in connection with the local government reform of 1952.

Since 2001, the municipality is connected with the Stockholm commuter rail system by an extension to Bålsta Station.

Coming with this, Bålsta now also offers interchange to regional railways, similar to Märsta, Sundbyberg and Södertälje.

This is a demographic table based on Håbo 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 22,319 residents, including 16,323 Swedish citizens of voting age.