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Region Juhoslovenská kotlina

consists of counties:

Towns

Region Juhoslovenská kotlina contains cities Dobšiná, Fiľakovo, Hnúšťa, Jelšava, Lučenec, Modrý Kameň, Poltár, Revúca, Rimavská Sobota, Rožňava, Tisovec, Tornaľa, Veľký Krtíš and 348 villages. More on oma.sk. Statistics on city level on unemployment are for the period of 2026-01-01, 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
Lučenec	24 661 16 057	885 439 323	5.5 % 5.3 % 2 %
Rimavská Sobota	21 175 13 859	1 031 532 468	7.4 % 7.6 % 3.4 %
Rožňava	16 857 10 950	726 371 304	6.6 % 6.6 % 2.8 %
Revúca	10 874 7 100	545 262 244	7.7 % 7.4 % 3.4 %
Veľký Krtíš	10 274 6 896	296 166 83	4.3 % 4.8 % 1.2 %
Fiľakovo	9 623 6 447	587 319 315	9.1 % 9.8 % 4.9 %
Tornaľa	6 702 4 461	601 326 402	13.5 % 14.9 % 9 %
Hnúšťa	6 436 4 299	421 213 202	9.8 % 10 % 4.7 %
Dobšiná	5 169 3 154	385 193 190	12.2 % 12.7 % 6 %
Poltár	5 123 3 388	296 158 142	8.7 % 9.4 % 4.2 %
Tisovec	3 587 2 334	230 131 110	9.9 % 11.6 % 4.7 %
Jelšava	3 177 2 163	300 164 182	13.9 % 16.1 % 8.4 %
Modrý Kameň	1 630 1 080	97 45 27	9 % 8.7 % 2.5 %

Villages with over 2000 inhabitants are Klenovec (2952), Krásnohorské Podhradie (2832), Kokava nad Rimavicou (2703), Jesenské (2351), Kalinovo (2253), Rimavská Seč (2219), Plešivec (2160), Divín (2012).

villages by number of inhabitants
total	up to 300	300 to 500	500 to 1000	1000 to 1500	over 1500
348	146	73	87	24	18

Unemployment

rok	2012	2014	2016	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024	2025	2026
number of unemployed	48 321	46 176	37 850	24 710	22 260	24 957	26 095	23 311	22 532	21 918	21 111	21 694
number of long-term unemployed	31 156	32 161	24 344	13 471	11 644	12 100	14 714	13 638	12 695	12 568	12 107	11 942
number of people receiving social benefits	59 001	55 795	42 677	31 534	28 521	27 436	25 320	25 335	24 853	24 461	23 923	23 959
number of activational workers	17 791	16 559	12 669	7199	6671	6669	5933	6590	2370	3880	3922	3916
unemployment rate	20.6	20	16.7	11.1	10.1	11.5	12.6	11.4	11.1	10.9	10.5	10.8
long-term unemployment rate	13.3	13.9	10.7	6.1	5.3	5.6	7.1	6.7	6.3	6.3	6.0	5.9
vacancies	186	385	990	1230	1458	1284	1149	1204	861	962	873	656

Demographics

demographic pyramid Juhoslovenská kotlina

	2012	2014	2016	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024	2025	2026
number of inhabitants	330 703	329 135	327 109	325 110	323 718	322 498	309 416	307 810	306 058	304 792	304 792	304 792
assignation tax	66 919 300	71 885 446	85 822 304	103 386 289	116 283 275	119 489 335	114 296 658	126 383 525	138 649 060	138 448 458	114 449 995	123 090 190
demographic dependency	19.7	21.0	22.7	24.8	25.8	26.8	27.2	28.2	28.8	29.5
number of employed foreigners	117	393	644	964	1142	1041	1546	2047	2247	2283	1805	1364

number of inhabitants – Juhoslovenská kotlina

Number of unemployed

rok	2012	2014	2016	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024	2025
less than 24 years	10 136	7343	5057	2738	2487	3043	3127	2730	2716	2753	2707
25 to 39 years	21 277	17 136	13 695	8251	7352	8295	8483	7605	7237	6981	6690
40 to 54 years	19 138	15 999	13 665	9117	8188	8984	9417	8454	8257	8060	7744
55 years and more	6012	5698	5433	4603	4234	4636	5068	4522	4321	4123	3970

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Juhoslovenská kotlina number of inhabitants, unemployed for longer than 4 years, low educated unemployed

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

https://www.iz.sk/en/projects/regions-of-slovakia/juhoslovenska-kotlina

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