Tomelilla Municipality is located in the south-eastern plains of Scania known as Österlen, which is an area notable for its beauty, and thus popular among painters as well as covered with summer cottages, country mansions, and so on.

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

[4] In total there were 13,696 inhabitants, including 10,419 Swedish citizens of voting age.

Tomelilla Municipality was made famous by comedy duo Tage Danielsson (1928–1985) and Hans Alfredson (1931–2017), who directed and acted in numerous movies that were filmed in and around the town of Tomelilla: The following notable people live in Tomelilla: Tomelilla Municipality is known for the amusement park Tosselilla Summer Park, possibly the most visited amusement park in the province, and the Hallamölla waterfall.

It depicts the bird kite, native to the area, in silver on a red shield.