When Vilhelm Moberg wrote his acclaimed novels about this time, he located his main characters' home to the parish of Ljuder in eastern Lessebo Municipality.

An honorary Walk of the Emigrants also stretches through the municipality and continues to Karlshamn in the south.

This is a demographic table based on Lessebo Municipality's electoral districts in the 2022 Swedish general election sourced from SVT's election platform, in turn taken from SCB official statistics.

It is located in Sweden's so-called Glasriket (Realm of Glass), which also includes the municipalities of Uppvidinge, Emmaboda and Nybro.

Besides the glass industry, Lessebo Municipality also has a manufacturer of handmade paper which was established in 1693, today an exclusive product mainly used for finer documents.