The area of the municipality consists of 16 original local government entities.

In 1971 the City of Skara was amalgamated with the rural municipalities to form the present unit.

This is a demographic table based on Skara 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 18,708 residents, including 14,210 Swedish citizens of voting age.

Indicators are in percentage points except population totals and income.