Jokioinen

Jokioinen (Swedish: Jockis) is a municipality of Finland.

Jokioinen Jockis
Municipality
Jokioisten kunta Jockis kommun
The bell towered grain storehouse of Jokioinen Estates in summer 2006
Coat of arms
Location of Jokioinen in Finland
Coordinates: 60°48′N 023°29′E
Country	Finland
Region	Tavastia Proper
Sub-region	Forssa sub-region
Charter	1873
Government
• Municipal manager	Jarmo Määttä
Area  (2018-01-01)[1]
• Total	181.94 km^2 (70.25 sq mi)
• Land	180.43 km^2 (69.66 sq mi)
• Water	1.52 km^2 (0.59 sq mi)
Area rank	270th largest in Finland
Population  (2019-01-31)[2]
• Total	5,191
• Rank	168th largest in Finland
• Density	28.77/km^2 (74.5/sq mi)
Population by native language [3]
• Finnish	98.3% (official)
• Swedish	0.3%
• Others	1.4%
Population by age [4]
• 0 to 14	19.2%
• 15 to 64	63.6%
• 65 or older	17.2%
Time zone	UTC+02:00 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+03:00 (EEST)
Municipal tax rate[5]	20.5%
Climate	Dfc
Website	www.jokioinen.fi

It is located in the Tavastia Proper region. The municipality has a population of 5,191 (31 January 2019)[2] and covers an area of 181.94 square kilometres (70.25 sq mi) of which 1.52 km² (0.59 sq mi) is water.[1] The population density is 28.77 inhabitants per square kilometre (74.5/sq mi). The municipality is unilingually Finnish.

The history of Jokioinen is tightly connected to the Jokioinen estate, which was established in 1562. The estate developed into the largest estate in Finland during the time of the provincial governor von Willebrand. At the beginning of 20th century the estate had a corn mill, saw mill, a brick factory, steel plant and a sugar and syrup factory.

Due to the crofters law of 1918 and the land reform law of 1945 the estate was split into more than 1500 homes and small farms. The rest of the estate was transferred to the ownership of the Finnish state in 1918. In 1928 the Department of Finnish Plant Breeding from Tikkurila and in 1957 the observatory from Pasila were transferred to the Jokioinen estate.

A notable tourist attraction in the region is the Jokioinen Museum Railway.

Climate

Jokioinen has a humid continental climate of the warm-summer type (Köppen: Dfb),[6] typical of the South Finnish fringe.[7] In the past it falls to the continental subarctic zone (Dfc, based in old data) with only 3 months above 10 °C.[8][9] The conditions are similar to Tampere, although it is more than 70 km to the north which shows influence of the urbanization in the climate.[10]

Climate data for Jokioinen (Hakala), elevation: 103 m or 338 ft, 1961-1990 normals and extremes
Month	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Year
Record high °C (°F)	7.4 (45.3)	9.4 (48.9)	14.0 (57.2)	21.2 (70.2)	27.7 (81.9)	31.5 (88.7)	29.9 (85.8)	30.4 (86.7)	27.6 (81.7)	18.4 (65.1)	11.3 (52.3)	7.2 (45.0)	31.5 (88.7)
Average high °C (°F)	−4.6 (23.7)	−4.1 (24.6)	0.4 (32.7)	6.8 (44.2)	15.0 (59.0)	19.7 (67.5)	20.9 (69.6)	19.1 (66.4)	13.4 (56.1)	7.7 (45.9)	1.7 (35.1)	−2.2 (28.0)	7.8 (46.1)
Daily mean °C (°F)	−7.5 (18.5)	−7.4 (18.7)	−3.5 (25.7)	2.4 (36.3)	9.4 (48.9)	14.3 (57.7)	15.8 (60.4)	14.2 (57.6)	9.4 (48.9)	4.7 (40.5)	−0.4 (31.3)	−4.9 (23.2)	3.9 (39.0)
Average low °C (°F)	−11.2 (11.8)	−11.2 (11.8)	−7.7 (18.1)	−1.8 (28.8)	3.2 (37.8)	7.9 (46.2)	10.3 (50.5)	9.4 (48.9)	5.6 (42.1)	1.8 (35.2)	−3.0 (26.6)	−8.1 (17.4)	−0.4 (31.3)
Record low °C (°F)	−36.7 (−34.1)	−39.3 (−38.7)	−29.0 (−20.2)	−20.9 (−5.6)	−7.0 (19.4)	−3.1 (26.4)	0.8 (33.4)	−1.5 (29.3)	−8.8 (16.2)	−13.4 (7.9)	−24.5 (−12.1)	−33.4 (−28.1)	−39.3 (−38.7)
Average precipitation mm (inches)	36.0 (1.42)	24.0 (0.94)	25.0 (0.98)	32.0 (1.26)	35.0 (1.38)	47.0 (1.85)	80.0 (3.15)	83.0 (3.27)	65.0 (2.56)	58.0 (2.28)	55.0 (2.17)	42.0 (1.65)	582 (22.91)
Average precipitation days (≥ 1.0 mm)	9.0	7.0	8.0	7.0	7.0	8.0	10.0	11.0	10.0	11.0	11.0	10.0	109
Mean monthly sunshine hours	36.6	70.5	133.0	174.4	252.1	276.4	247.2	203.6	125.0	81.2	35.4	27.3	1,662.7
Source: NOAA[9]

Economy

Employment structure of Jokioinen by trade at the end of 2004 was following: Services 64.9%, processing 23.3%, agriculture and forestry economics 9.6%.

Major employers

• MTT Agrifood Research Finland: 480
• Jokioinen municipality: 305
• Boreal Plant Breeding Ltd: 68
• Jokioisten Leipä Oy (bakery): 45
• Suomen Sokeri Oy Finnsugar (sugar mill): 44
• Pintos Oy (nail factory): 40

Employment structure by trade at the end of 2004 was following: Agriculture and forestry economics 16.3%, industry 22.0%, services 58.5%, unknown 3.2%.

Villages

Haapaniemi, Jokioinen, Jänhijoki, Kiipu, Lammi, Latovainio, Minkiö, Minkiön asema (Minkiö railway station), Niemi, Ojainen, Pellilä, Saari, and Vaulammi

Notable people

• Anneli Saaristo, (born 1949), singer

References

1. "Area of Finnish Municipalities 1.1.2018" (PDF). National Land Survey of Finland. Retrieved 30 January 2018.
2. "Suomen virallinen tilasto (SVT): Väestön ennakkotilasto [verkkojulkaisu]. Tammikuu 2019" (in Finnish). Statistics Finland. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
3. "Population according to language and the number of foreigners and land area km2 by area as of 31 December 2008". Statistics Finland's PX-Web databases. Statistics Finland. Retrieved 29 March 2009.
4. "Population according to age and gender by area as of 31 December 2008". Statistics Finland's PX-Web databases. Statistics Finland. Retrieved 28 April 2009.
5. "List of municipal and parish tax rates in 2011". Tax Administration of Finland. 29 November 2010. Retrieved 13 March 2011.
6. "Jokioinen, Finland Köppen Climate Classification (Weatherbase)". Weatherbase. Retrieved 2019-03-04.
7. Peterson, Adam (2016-09-19), English: Köppen climate types of Finland, retrieved 2019-03-04
8. "Jokioinen Climate Jokioinen Temperatures Jokioinen Weather Averages". www.jokioinen.climatemps.com. Retrieved 2019-03-04.
9. "City (ID Station) - WMO Weather Station". NOAA. Retrieved March 4, 2019. Archived March 4, 2019, at the Wayback Machine
10. "FMI normals 1981-2010" (PDF). FMI. Retrieved 26 April 2016.

External links

• Media related to Jokioinen at Wikimedia Commons
• Jokioinen travel guide from Wikivoyage
• Municipality of Jokioinen – Official website