The municipality was created by the local government reform of 1971, when the City of Vimmerby was amalgamated with the surrounding rural municipalities to form an entity of unitary type.

There are 6 urban areas (also called a Tätort or locality) in Vimmerby Municipality.

This is a demographic table based on Vimmerby 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 15,555 residents, including 12,022 Swedish citizens of voting age.

Indicators are in percentage points except population totals and income.