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Region Kopanice

consists of counties:

map of region Kopanice

Region is situated in the west of Slovakia, at the frontier witch Czech republic. The relief is mostly upland. In the north spreads the mountain called Biele Karpaty, the eastern frontier is represented by the river Váh. In the south and west interfers the northern part of plain Záhorská. The western frontier is represented by the river Morava, which is at the same time a frontier with Czech republic.

The region is characteristic especially by rural settlement, for the most part it is settled very sparsely. It represents special type of settlement, called Kopanice. It was one of the conditions which helped to select the region. Largely, the region is similar because of its geomorfological, cultural and social-economical conditions.

It belongs to the middle developed regions. More developed county from selected seems to be Skalica. It achieves better coefficients in several social – economical characteristics, such as production activity, employment, business activities and in whole economical and social level. Senica and Skalica achieve similar level of economical and social level, in fact one grade smaller than Skalica. From the aspect of business activity, they belong to the worst out of all west of Slovakia. A situation in Myjava became more complicated when a biggest corporation which employed a quarter of economic active persons, get to bankrupt, it led to increase of unemployment.

Region Kopanice contains cities Brezová pod Bradlom, Gbely, Holíč, Myjava, Šaštín-Stráže, Senica, Skalica and 62 villages. Viac aj na oma.sk.

unemployment in LAU2 regions Kopanice LAU2

Basic data

rok201220132014201520162017201820192020202120222023
number of inhabitants134 805134 792134 729134 645134 523134 317134 060133 754133 342132 023136 533136 564
number of unemployed764380717382647350663592281328164096411036023455
number of long-term unemployed33573501331527741876105458441564812441078944
number of people receiving social benefits532652684405300121761594116610321111102212321308
number of activational workers31930728319213173.141.738.144.33842.739
unemployment rate10.411.510.59.37.25.144.165.95.3
long-term unemployment rate4.65.04.74.02.71.50.80.60.91.81.6
assignation tax30 932 36330 661 37131 747 48234 973 70738 112 12042 072 96545 679 44651 941 76253 233 23450 853 57755 987 680
demographic dependency20.421.322.223.124.225.426.527.929.129.830.731.7
demographic pyramid Kopanice 2023 demographic pyramid Kopanice 2035

Number of unemployed

rok201220132014201520162017201820192020202120222023
less than 24 years1849159813491114777509359400618577515497
25 to 39 years305728472616229618381329101610271431139012141153
40 to 54 years2725257223722061163211449209181337137812361214
55 years and more1068105410441002820610518470710765637592
number of inhabitants – Kopanice

Other regions

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

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


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