What does emigrating to Sweden cost?
Answer four questions and you have an honest range for your situation. Every item shows whether it's a checked rate or an estimate. The paperwork costs 400 kronor here. The money is in the home, the kilometres and the first months.
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A rough indication for your situation
A few short questions, and you get a range instead of an amount. That's deliberate: an exact figure would suggest a precision nobody has.
Count on a total of
€ 2.600 – € 8.600
Where does that difference come from?
- The first months€ 2.500 – € 8.000
Below you'll find per item where the upper and the lower limit come from.
- Aanvraag en papieren
- € 35 – € 150
- De verhuizing
- € 80 – € 400
- De eerste maanden
- € 2.500 – € 8.000
Every item, one by onePer item the amount, the source and whether it's a rate or an estimate
Aanvraag en papieren
- ID card from Skatteverket€ 35 – € 35
- Certificates and any translations(estimate)€ 0 – € 80
De verhuizing
- Travel(estimate)€ 80 – € 400
The cost depends on the route. It is a good thousand kilometres to Gothenburg and around fifteen hundred to Stockholm. You drive via Denmark, with two fixed tolls: the Great Belt Bridge (± 205 DKK) and the Öresund Bridge (182-470 DKK per crossing). For the Öresund Bridge there is the ØresundGO subscription: 370 DKK per year for a 60% discount. It pays for itself with a single return trip. Alternatively, take a direct ferry from Germany to Gothenburg or Trelleborg, with a cabin for the night.
De eerste maanden
- The first months(estimate)€ 2.500 – € 8.000
This is the largest item, and the housing market decides how large it gets. Anyone starting via andrahand (renting from someone who holds the contract themselves) usually pays one to two months' deposit plus the first month in advance. The law does not regulate this, so it is negotiable. On top come double costs during the search months and a price level above the Dutch one. If you work, also count your first payslip. Without a decision on your provisional tax, 110% of the table rate is withheld. You get it back with the tax return, but you feel it in month one.
And if you buy a house?
This calculation assumes renting: the first months include deposit and rent in advance.
If you buy, count on 2 to 4% of the purchase price on top of this amount. On a home of € 250,000 that's € 5.000 to € 10.000.
The lagfart, the registration of ownership, costs 1.5% stämpelskatt (stamp duty) on the purchase price, or on the taxeringsvärde (the assessed value) if that is higher, plus 825 kronor. If you take out a mortgage and the house does not carry enough pantbrev, you also pay 2% stämpelskatt on the amount of the new pantbrev, plus 375 kronor. A pantbrev is the proof of the mortgage right on the home; the ones already on the house you take over. If you buy a bostadsrätt (the Swedish form of flat ownership, legally a share in an association), the lagfart lapses entirely. You then pay only a small transfer fee.
An order of magnitude based on averages, not a quote. The real amounts depend on your occupation, your route, the season and dozens of choices you still have to make.
Rates checked on 20 August 2026.
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