The municipality also has substantial forests with animals such as elk, deer, fox, bear and lynx.

This is a demographic table based on Heby 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 14,282 residents, including 10,903 Swedish citizens of voting age.

Indicators are in percentage points except population totals and income.

In September 2005 it was reported that the municipality was permitted to be part of Uppsala County after intense lobbying in the late 1990s, following a municipal poll in 1998 where the majority was in support of the county transition.