The first Hylte Municipality was created in 1952 through the amalgamation of three minor units in Jönköping County.

The municipality straddles the boundary of two historic provinces, Halland and Småland.

There are 6 urban areas (also called a Tätort or locality) in Hylte Municipality.

This is a demographic table based on Hylte 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 10,590 residents, including 7,442 Swedish citizens of voting age.