Change of address when moving: change address and get the

Change of address when you move

Changing your address when you move means two notifications. The flyttanmälan (notification of change of address) to Skatteverket (the Swedish Tax Agency) changes your population registration, is free and is made before the move or within a week after it. The change of address with Svensk Adressändring concerns your mail. The change of address itself is free there, but if you want your mail sent on, you order mail forwarding, which costs from 698 kr for one household.

Source: Skatteverket: Flyttanmälan, Skatteverket: How to get your post to the right address, Svensk Adressändring: Change of address and mail forwarding, Svensk Adressändring: Price list.

By the editorial team, Flytthandboken. Updated 9 October 2026. Last checked 2 October 2026.

Skatteverket and Svensk Adressändring side by side

Flyttanmälan with Skatteverket

Changes: Your population registration, which governs tax, benefits and municipality, among other things.
Price: Free.
When: Before you move or within a week after.
How: In the Flyttanmälan e-service with an e-ID, or on form SKV 7845.

Change of address with Svensk Adressändring

Changes: Where your mail goes. Your population registration does not change.
Price: The change of address is free. Mail forwarding costs 698 kr for three months, 798 kr for six and 998 kr for twelve, for one household.
When: Before mail starts arriving at the new address (our advice).
How: At adressandring.se.

Source: Skatteverket: Flyttanmälan, Skatteverket: I have just moved, do I need to report it anywhere?, Skatteverket: How to get your post to the right address, Svensk Adressändring: Price list. Prices retrieved 2 October 2026.

Flyttanmälan step by step Mail forwarding step by step

Do I have to notify both Skatteverket and Svensk Adressändring?

You make the flyttanmälan to Skatteverket for every move. The change of address with Svensk Adressändring is a choice you make for your mail. Svensk Adressändring itself says they are "två olika saker", that you should update your address with both and that a notification to Skatteverket "måste göras separat". Skatteverket says the same from the other direction: "Enbart eftersändning ändrar däremot inte din folkbokföringsadress."

Source: Svensk Adressändring: Change of address and mail forwarding, Skatteverket: How to get your post to the right address.

What happens if I only do one of them?

Without a flyttanmälan, your population registration does not change. If you make it more than a week after the move, the new address applies from the day the notification reached Skatteverket, not from the day you moved in. Without mail forwarding, mail with the old address goes back to the sender, according to Svensk Adressändring.

Source: Skatteverket: Flyttanmälan, Svensk Adressändring: Change of address and mail forwarding.

Is adressandring.se the same as Post's change of address?

In practice, yes. The change of address for post is done on adressandring.se, which is run by Svensk Adressändring AB. PostNord and CityMail founded the company in 1993, and today PostNord owns 85 per cent and CityMail 15 per cent. PostNord does not sell forwarding itself to private individuals, but refers to Adressändring. However, you change your population registration with Skatteverket, see change of address with Skatteverket.

Source: Svensk Adressändring: About Svensk Adressändring, PostNord: Change of address, forwarding and mail holding.

Who gets my new address automatically?

Once you have made the flyttanmälan, Skatteverket passes the address on to Försäkringskassan (the Swedish Social Insurance Agency), CSN (the Swedish Board of Student Finance), Transportstyrelsen (the Swedish Transport Agency), Pensionsmyndigheten (the Swedish Pensions Agency), Arbetsförmedlingen (the Swedish Public Employment Service), Migrationsverket (the Swedish Migration Agency) and Lantmäteriet (the Swedish land registration authority), among others, and to municipalities and regions. Larger banks and insurance companies get it through the SPAR register. You notify clubs and associations, magazines, electricity suppliers and private individuals yourself. The full list is in the checklist for changing your address when you move.

Source: Skatteverket: I have just moved, do I need to report it anywhere?, Skatteverket: How to get your post to the right address.

Can I make a temporary change of address?

For mail, yes. Svensk Adressändring sells temporary mail forwarding from 14 days up to six months, and can pause mail for seven days up to two months. This only applies to mail. Population registration is not changed by mail forwarding. Which option suits you, and when you report a special mail address instead, is stated in the guide on temporary change of address.

Source: Svensk Adressändring: Price list, Skatteverket: How to get your post to the right address.

Does the flyttanmälan give Adressändring my address?

None of the sources we have read says so. Svensk Adressändring says that the notifications are separate and that it is not responsible for your update with Skatteverket. If you want your mail to follow you, do both.

Source: Svensk Adressändring: Change of address and mail forwarding.

What is the difference between a population registration address and a postal address?

The population registration address is where you live. If you want your mail sent to another address for at least six months, you register a special postal address with Skatteverket, and it does not change your population registration. How it works, and when c/o is used, is explained in the guide to population registration, postal address and c/o.

Source: Skatteverket: Särskild postadress.