Municipality profile · Agriculture and crops

Vesthimmerlands Municipality

Vesthimmerlands had 56,208 ha of declared agricultural area in 2026. Cereals was the largest crop group.

Key figures

Declared field area
56,208 ha
2026
Fields
12,044
2026
Average field size
4.7 ha
Median field size
2.2 ha
Effective crop diversity
5.4
effective groups
Largest crop group
Cereals
35%

Landscape around the fields · 2024

Agricultural land and Developed land and infrastructure · 75.8 % of the municipality.

Share of the whole municipality
VesthimmerlandsDenmark
  1. Agricultural land65.2 %
    Denmark: 57.6 %
  2. Developed land and infrastructure10.6 %
    Denmark: 13.9 %
  3. Forest8.8 %
    Denmark: 13.3 %
  4. Wet nature7.7 %
    Denmark: 5.7 %
  5. Dry and open nature2.9 %
    Denmark: 3.6 %
  6. Inland water2.1 %
    Denmark: 2.6 %
  7. Other artificial areas0.9 %
    Denmark: 0.7 %
  8. Sea and transitional waters<0.1 %
    Denmark: 0.3 %
Terrestrial unclassified
1.7 %
Unavailable coverage
0.0 %

Complete boundary area: 76,804.2 ha. Shares include water, unclassified land and unavailable coverage.

All figures
Complete landscape composition, largest first · 2024
Land-cover type%Denmark %
Agricultural land50,103.9 ha65.2 %57.6 %
Developed land and infrastructure8,121.4 ha10.6 %13.9 %
Forest6,761.1 ha8.8 %13.3 %
Wet nature5,912.4 ha7.7 %5.7 %
Dry and open nature2,220.6 ha2.9 %3.6 %
Inland water1,636.4 ha2.1 %2.6 %
Other artificial areas727.2 ha0.9 %0.7 %
Sea and transitional waters41.3 ha<0.1 %0.3 %
Terrestrial unclassified1,279.8 ha1.7 %2.3 %
Unavailable coverage0.0 ha0.0 %<0.1 %
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Source and calculation

OpenLandData calculates these areas from native 10-metre cells within the complete DAGI municipality boundaries. The reference year combines sources of different dates.

Denmark: area-weighted shares within the 98 complete municipality boundaries. These mapped areas use a different definition and boundary denominator from the official land accounts and declared field areas.

The source is Aarhus University's Basemap05 map for 2024, which combines information from different dates. Categories describe land-cover types, not legal protection or the condition of nature. The map cannot be used for legally binding land-use decisions.

Aarhus University / Gregor Levin, Basemap05 (2024), DOI 10.5281/zenodo.22197260. Levin (2025), DCE Technical Report 363. CC BY 4.0. Grouping, polygonisation, display reprojection and area summaries by OpenLandData.

AU source release · Technical report · CC BY 4.0

Crop composition

Crop composition: Vesthimmerlands, 2026
Data behind the chart: crop composition, Vesthimmerlands
Crop composition · 2026
Crop groupsDeclared field areaShare
Cereals19,740.6 ha35.1%
Grass and fodder16,194.6 ha28.8%
Maize8,088.9 ha14.4%
Other3,463.5 ha6.2%
Oilseeds2,921.2 ha5.2%
Potatoes2,564.8 ha4.6%
Fallow2,319.1 ha4.1%
Legumes598.8 ha1.1%
Sugar beet200.9 ha0.4%
Vegetables102.9 ha0.2%
Fruit and berries12.5 ha0%

Development over time

Declared area rose by 1.1% between 2019 and 2026. This describes declarations and does not by itself establish a change in land use. The municipality accounted for 2.12% of nationally declared agricultural area in 2026.

Development over time: Vesthimmerlands, 2019–2026
Data behind the chart: declared field area. The scale fits the values shown and does not always start at zero.Scroll horizontally to see all years.
Declared field area
YearDeclared field areaFieldsClassification coverage
201955,593.2 ha12,268100%
202055,495.4 ha12,177100%
202156,139.4 ha12,006100%
202256,260 ha11,872100%
202356,243.4 ha12,298100%
202456,263.7 ha12,373100%
202556,191.1 ha12,321100%
202656,207.9 ha12,044100%

Position among municipalities

Declared field area
No. 15 of 90
Field count
No. 12 of 90
Crop diversity
No. 2 of 84
Average field size
No. 31 of 84

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Method and caveats

How the figures are calculated

Declared area is allocated by proportional overlap and largest remainder. A field is counted once in the municipality containing its largest overlap.

Effective crop diversity is exp(Shannon), calculated from classified area in the broad editorial crop groups.

All years use the pinned 2026 DAGI municipality boundaries. The national figure is calculated from unique fields and is not the sum of municipalities.

The crop groups are openlanddata presentation groups, not an official SGAV classification.

The figures describe aggregate declared areas for each year and cannot be used to track crop rotation on individual fields.

Sources and terms

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CC0 1.0 · You may copy, adapt and share the data, including commercially. Credit is good practice, but is not required by CC0.

Suggested credit: SGAV, Marker

CC0 is documented in the official catalogue for the WFS layer. Its application to the matching ZIP file has not been separately confirmed.

Terms reviewed: 2026-09-07. Processing and calculations: openlanddata.

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CC BY 4.0 · You may copy, adapt and share the data, including commercially. Credit the source, link the licence and describe your changes.

Attribution: Klimadatastyrelsen · DAGI · CC BY 4.0

Municipal snapshot retrieved on 15 July 2026. Boundaries and municipality assignment are used in our calculations.

Terms reviewed: 2026-09-07. Processing and calculations: openlanddata.

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