It was amalgamated with Oderljunga in the first of the two nationwide local government reforms (1952).

The reform of 1971 did not bring any new amalgamations, but the köping status was abolished.

This is a demographic table based on Perstorp 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 7,541 residents, including 5,143 Swedish citizens of voting age.

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