The present municipality was formed by the local government reform of 1971 when the market town (köping) Tingsryd (instituted in 1921) was amalgamated with its surrounding entities.

The new Tingsryd horse racing track (opened 27 July 2003) is the only one in Northern Europe being a mile (1,609 m) long and gathers every kind of equestrian sport.

The Mien crater, the result of a meteorite impact some 120 million years ago, lies 11 km southwest of Tingsryd.

There are 7 urban areas (also called a Tätort or locality) in Tingsryd Municipality.

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