The present municipality was created in 1971 when the market town (köping) Sunne (instituted in 1920) was amalgamated with Gräsmark and Lysvik.

Karlstad, which has an international airport, is the nearest large city.

This is a demographic table based on Sunne 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 13,352 inhabitants, with 10,393 Swedish citizens of voting age.

Indicators are in percentage points except population totals and income.