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Region Danube river

consists of counties:

Towns

Region Danube river contains cities Dunajská Streda, Gabčíkovo, Hurbanovo, Kolárovo, Komárno, Nové Zámky, Šaľa, Šamorín, Štúrovo, Šurany, Veľký Meder and 172 villages. Statistics on city level on unemployment are for the period of 2025-11-01, for population are fore yar 2024.

name	number of inhabitants in economically active age	number of unemployed number of unemployed women number of long-term unemployed	unemployment rate unemployment rate of women long-term unemployment rate
Nové Zámky	36 002 23 342	820 466 195	3.5 % 3.9 % 0.8 %
Komárno	31 880 20 835	684 380 159	3.3 % 3.7 % 0.8 %
Dunajská Streda	22 826 14 779	506 291 100	3.4 % 3.8 % 0.7 %
Šaľa	19 934 13 245	411 233 82	3.1 % 3.6 % 0.6 %
Šamorín	13 672 8 861	216 121 17	2.4 % 2.7 % 0.2 %
Kolárovo	10 404 6 985	326 190 140	4.7 % 5.7 % 2 %
Štúrovo	9 322 6 017	182 110 35	3 % 3.7 % 0.6 %
Šurany	9 103 5 995	243 137 57	4.1 % 4.7 % 1 %
Veľký Meder	8 204 5 423	189 114 31	3.5 % 4.2 % 0.6 %
Hurbanovo	7 178 4 708	199 118 69	4.2 % 5.1 % 1.5 %
Gabčíkovo	5 290 3 532	107 63 26	3 % 3.7 % 0.7 %

Villages with over 2000 inhabitants are Tvrdošovce (5062), Dvory nad Žitavou (4979), Nesvady (4963), Močenok (4306), Komjatice (4210), Palárikovo (4203), Marcelová (3794), Hviezdoslavov (3772), Okoč (3661), Tešedíkovo (3621), Bánov (3548), Zlaté Klasy (3542), Lehnice (3323), Bátorove Kosihy (3291), Neded (3174), Vlčany (3131), Topoľníky (3122), Vrakúň (2946), Veľký Kýr (2931), Selice (2846), Trnovec nad Váhom (2757), Svätý Peter (2700), Pribeta (2635), Zlatná na Ostrove (2380), Diakovce (2377), Svodín (2354), Nový Život (2302), Horná Potôň (2260), Zemianska Olča (2248), Trhová Hradská (2160), Holice (2143), Zemné (2112), Kvetoslavov (2110), Gbelce (2051).

villages by number of inhabitants
total	up to 300	300 to 500	500 to 1000	1000 to 1500	over 1500
172	8	24	45	38	57

Unemployment

rok	2012	2014	2016	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024	2025
number of unemployed	33 790	29 247	21 470	9611	8466	12 656	13 895	11 338	9761	9562	9599
number of long-term unemployed	15 809	15 169	10 278	2880	1987	2433	4411	3975	2856	2533	2303
number of people receiving social benefits	26 397	22 606	14 200	8193	6646	6049	5475	5603	5494	5168	4706
number of activational workers	1999	2013	1290	428	264	252	235	221	64.9	104	102
unemployment rate	11.1	9.7	7.3	3.3	3	4.5	5	4.1	3.6	3.5	3.5
long-term unemployment rate	5.2	5.1	3.5	1.0	0.7	0.9	1.6	1.4	1.0	0.9	0.8
vacancies	400	601	2277	4196	6132	5110	4477	4484	4506	5077	8441

Demographics

	2012	2014	2016	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024	2025
number of inhabitants	418 112	416 956	415 955	415 048	414 470	413 434	413 423	412 407	411 685	410 858	410 858
assignation tax	85 541 295	89 030 031	106 098 015	129 335 822	145 582 558	150 369 285	144 347 652	159 447 754	178 972 128	179 528 667	147 336 734
demographic dependency	20.8	22.0	24.1	26.4	27.7	28.8	29.3	30.4	32.1
number of employed foreigners	1139	1723	2450	3900	4614	5309	5022	5672	6885	7641	8751

Number of unemployed

rok	2012	2014	2016	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024	2025
less than 24 years	6780	4609	2664	1004	917	1483	1572	1224	1098	1115	1208
25 to 39 years	14 471	10 252	7441	3046	2648	4129	4378	3577	2961	2898	2835
40 to 54 years	13 215	10 012	7530	3370	2951	4399	4870	4019	3529	3523	3535
55 years and more	5187	4374	3835	2191	1950	2645	3075	2518	2173	2025	2009

Other regions

Danube river number of inhabitants, unemployed for longer than 4 years, low educated unemployed

Suggested citation: Michal Páleník: Regions of Slovakia - Region Danube river, IZ Bratislava, retrieved from: https://www.iz.sk/en/projects/regions-of-slovakia/danube-river

https://www.iz.sk/en/projects/regions-of-slovakia/danube-river

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