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3R region

consists of counties:

This region includes three counties with name starting with letter R. Apart from other, it is characterized by very high unemployment.

Towns

Region 3R contains cities Dobšiná, Hnúšťa, Jelšava, Revúca, Rimavská Sobota, Rožňava, Tisovec, Tornaľa and 203 villages. Statistics on city level on unemployment are for the period of 2025-04-01, 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
Rimavská Sobota	21 175 13 859	1 049 531 507	7.6 % 7.6 % 3.7 %
Rožňava	16 857 10 950	702 349 328	6.4 % 6.2 % 3 %
Revúca	10 874 7 100	549 285 266	7.7 % 8.1 % 3.7 %
Tornaľa	6 702 4 461	592 328 368	13.3 % 15 % 8.2 %
Hnúšťa	6 436 4 299	445 220 228	10.4 % 10.4 % 5.3 %
Dobšiná	5 169 3 154	391 196 191	12.4 % 12.9 % 6.1 %
Tisovec	3 587 2 334	228 126 103	9.8 % 11.2 % 4.4 %
Jelšava	3 177 2 163	314 177 205	14.5 % 17.4 % 9.5 %

Villages with over 2000 inhabitants are Klenovec (3013), Krásnohorské Podhradie (2810), Jesenské (2336), Plešivec (2214), Rimavská Seč (2189).

villages by number of inhabitants
total	up to 300	300 to 500	500 to 1000	1000 to 1500	over 1500
203	89	41	51	13	9

Unemployment

rok	2012	2014	2016	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024	2025
number of unemployed	30 945	29 604	24 918	17 091	15 513	16 849	17 608	16 120	15 579	15 370	14 969
number of long-term unemployed	21 450	21 626	16 612	9772	8592	8897	10 628	10 043	9438	9338	9223
number of people receiving social benefits	39 958	38 008	29 573	22 623	20 752	20 055	18 566	18 707	18 514	18 310	18 098
number of activational workers	13 554	12 334	9374	5514	5255	5348	4673	5247	1939	3076	2850
unemployment rate	23.4	22.6	19.3	13.5	12.4	13.6	14.9	13.8	13.5	13.3	13
long-term unemployment rate	16.2	16.5	12.9	7.7	6.9	7.2	9.0	8.6	8.2	8.1	8.0
vacancies	102	213	613	806	930	900	713	722	504	582	523

Demographics

	2012	2014	2016	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024	2025
number of inhabitants	188 342	187 834	187 085	186 292	185 716	185 246	177 596	176 669	175 893	175 436	175 436
assignation tax	38 616 257	41 422 996	49 701 406	59 797 130	67 291 351	69 278 573	66 253 807	73 462 369	80 656 094	80 704 929	66 197 936
demographic dependency	18.8	20.1	21.8	23.8	24.8	25.8	26.3	27.2	27.8
number of employed foreigners	65.1	271	508	774	942	835	1343	1769	1950	1966	1876

Number of unemployed

rok	2012	2014	2016	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024	2025
less than 24 years	6294	4710	3366	1914	1746	2066	2117	1958	1875	1922	1845
25 to 39 years	13 566	11 134	9184	5857	5228	5640	5789	5302	5095	4987	4857
40 to 54 years	11 769	10 128	8834	6231	5664	6024	6289	5788	5680	5617	5522
55 years and more	3787	3632	3534	3089	2874	3118	3413	3071	2929	2844	2784

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3R number of inhabitants, unemployed for longer than 4 years, low educated unemployed

Suggested citation: Michal Páleník: Regions of Slovakia - 3R region, IZ Bratislava, retrieved from: https://www.iz.sk/en/projects/regions-of-slovakia/juhoslovenska-kotlina/3r

https://www.iz.sk/en/projects/regions-of-slovakia/juhoslovenska-kotlina/3r

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