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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 2025-05-01, 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	793 416 353	4.9 % 5 % 2.2 %
Rimavská Sobota	21 175 13 859	1 014 517 494	7.3 % 7.4 % 3.6 %
Rožňava	16 857 10 950	682 347 327	6.2 % 6.2 % 3 %
Revúca	10 874 7 100	563 295 265	7.9 % 8.4 % 3.7 %
Veľký Krtíš	10 274 6 896	261 139 94	3.8 % 4 % 1.4 %
Fiľakovo	9 623 6 447	642 336 313	10 % 10.3 % 4.9 %
Tornaľa	6 702 4 461	594 328 370	13.3 % 15 % 8.3 %
Hnúšťa	6 436 4 299	428 215 223	10 % 10.1 % 5.2 %
Poltár	5 123 3 388	291 157 142	8.6 % 9.4 % 4.2 %
Dobšiná	5 169 3 154	382 200 196	12.1 % 13.2 % 6.2 %
Tisovec	3 587 2 334	224 122 97	9.6 % 10.8 % 4.2 %
Jelšava	3 177 2 163	312 176 204	14.4 % 17.3 % 9.4 %
Modrý Kameň	1 630 1 080	67 37 28	6.2 % 7.1 % 2.6 %

Villages with over 2000 inhabitants are Klenovec (3013), Krásnohorské Podhradie (2810), Kokava nad Rimavicou (2756), Jesenské (2336), Kalinovo (2229), Plešivec (2214), Rimavská Seč (2189), Cinobaňa (2032), Divín (2020).

villages by number of inhabitants
total	up to 300	300 to 500	500 to 1000	1000 to 1500	over 1500
348	146	74	86	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	21 356
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	12 304
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	24 191
number of activational workers	17 791	16 559	12 669	7199	6671	6669	5933	6590	2370	3880	3794
unemployment rate	20.6	20	16.7	11.1	10.1	11.5	12.6	11.4	11.1	10.9	10.6
long-term unemployment rate	13.3	13.9	10.7	6.1	5.3	5.6	7.1	6.7	6.3	6.3	6.1
vacancies	186	385	990	1230	1458	1284	1149	1204	861	962	903

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	2263

number of inhabitants – Juhoslovenská kotlina

Number of unemployed

rok	2012	2014	2016	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024	2025
less than 24 years	9861	7343	5057	2738	2487	3043	3127	2730	2716	2753	2678
25 to 39 years	20 819	17 136	13 695	8251	7352	8295	8483	7605	7237	6981	6803
40 to 54 years	18 734	15 999	13 665	9117	8188	8984	9417	8454	8257	8060	7915
55 years and more	5881	5698	5433	4603	4234	4636	5068	4522	4321	4123	4042

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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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