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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 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
Lučenec	24 661 16 057	836 429 321	5.2 % 5.2 % 2 %
Rimavská Sobota	21 175 13 859	989 507 462	7.1 % 7.2 % 3.3 %
Rožňava	16 857 10 950	698 369 296	6.4 % 6.6 % 2.7 %
Revúca	10 874 7 100	547 264 234	7.7 % 7.5 % 3.3 %
Veľký Krtíš	10 274 6 896	267 149 86	3.9 % 4.3 % 1.2 %
Fiľakovo	9 623 6 447	596 333 303	9.2 % 10.2 % 4.7 %
Tornaľa	6 702 4 461	580 317 399	13 % 14.5 % 8.9 %
Hnúšťa	6 436 4 299	412 211 200	9.6 % 9.9 % 4.7 %
Dobšiná	5 169 3 154	368 193 183	11.7 % 12.7 % 5.8 %
Poltár	5 123 3 388	277 151 137	8.2 % 9 % 4 %
Tisovec	3 587 2 334	220 129 104	9.4 % 11.4 % 4.5 %
Jelšava	3 177 2 163	302 164 183	14 % 16.1 % 8.5 %
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
number of unemployed	48 321	46 176	37 850	24 710	22 260	24 957	26 095	23 311	22 532	21 918	21 083
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	12 131
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	23 929
number of activational workers	17 791	16 559	12 669	7199	6671	6669	5933	6590	2370	3880	3918
unemployment rate	20.6	20	16.7	11.1	10.1	11.5	12.6	11.4	11.1	10.9	10.5
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
vacancies	186	385	990	1230	1458	1284	1149	1204	861	962	891

Demographics

demographic pyramid Juhoslovenská kotlina

	2012	2014	2016	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024	2025
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
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
demographic dependency	19.7	21.0	22.7	24.8	25.8	26.8	27.2	28.2	28.8
number of employed foreigners	117	393	644	964	1142	1041	1546	2047	2247	2283	1845

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	2674
25 to 39 years	21 277	17 136	13 695	8251	7352	8295	8483	7605	7237	6981	6703
40 to 54 years	19 138	15 999	13 665	9117	8188	8984	9417	8454	8257	8060	7738
55 years and more	6012	5698	5433	4603	4234	4636	5068	4522	4321	4123	3980

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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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