Upplands Väsby has a low topography and the people lived by fishing, seal and waterfowl hunting.

Other cemeteries in the form of large burial mounds exist near Löwenströmska Hospital and Runby, called Zamores Hill after the timpanist Antonin Zamore, a North African who came to Sweden in the late 1700s and who lived on the Runby Lower farm, now called the homestead.

[clarification needed] The town's railway station was completed in 1865, situated on the rail line between Stockholm and Uppsala, built between 1863 and 1866.

Travel time to Arlanda Airport is seven minutes by local train, which also connects Upplands Väsby with Uppsala.

From Upplands Väsby are many renowned music artists: Europe, Therion, H.E.A.T., Candlemass and IFA Wartburg have lived there, as well as John Norum and Yngwie Malmsteen.

Some famous writers who lived in Upplands Väsby are Carl Jonas Love Almquist, P. C. Jersild, and Alexander Ahndoril.

Parts of the industry that was in the area near the railway station can now be seen south of the neighborhood Messingen where Optimus established himself in 1908.

[3] center facility owned by Väsbyhem who in 2001 sold the plant to Doughty Hanson & Co European Real Estate.