Billund Municipality


Billund is a municipality in the center of the Jutland Peninsula in Denmark. Formerly the municipality belonged to Ribe County. The new, merged municipality covers an area of 540.18 km², and has a total population of 26,172. Its mayor is Ib Kristensen, a member of Venstre political party. The site of its municipal council is the town of Grindsted, which is the largest town in the municipality followed by the city of Billund.
On 1 January 2007, as a result of Kommunalreformen, the old Billund municipality was combined with the former Grindsted Municipality and the part of Billund Airport that was located in Give Municipality.
The municipality is part of the Triangle Region and of the East Jutland metropolitan area, which had a total population of 1.378 million in 2016.

Politics

Billund's municipal council consists of 25 members, elected every four years. The municipal council has six political committees.

Municipal council

Below are the municipal councils elected since the Municipal Reform of 2007.

Economy

and Sun Air of Scandinavia have their head offices in Billund, Billund Municipality. The first Legoland has operated here since 1968.