Torsåker, Hofors Municipality

Torsåker is a locality situated in Hofors Municipality, Gävleborg County, Sweden with 899 inhabitants in 2010.

[1] It contains a parish for the Archdiocese of Uppsala.

The church at Torsåker has two runestones, Gs 7 and Gs 8.

Torsåker has the Norse pagan god Thor as an element along with Old Norse akr or áker, "arable land.

"[2] The typical translation for the name is "Thor's field" and was often originally used as the name of a farm.