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Region Kopanice
consists of counties:

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.

Basic data
rok | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 |
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number of inhabitants | 134 805 | 134 792 | 134 729 | 134 645 | 134 523 | 134 317 | 134 060 | 133 754 | 133 342 | 132 023 | 136 533 | 136 564 |
number of unemployed | 7643 | 8071 | 7382 | 6473 | 5066 | 3592 | 2813 | 2816 | 4096 | 4110 | 3602 | 3455 |
number of long-term unemployed | 3357 | 3501 | 3315 | 2774 | 1876 | 1054 | 584 | 415 | 648 | 1244 | 1078 | 944 |
number of people receiving social benefits | 5326 | 5268 | 4405 | 3001 | 2176 | 1594 | 1166 | 1032 | 1111 | 1022 | 1232 | 1308 |
number of activational workers | 319 | 307 | 283 | 192 | 131 | 73.1 | 41.7 | 38.1 | 44.3 | 38 | 42.7 | 39 |
unemployment rate | 10.4 | 11.5 | 10.5 | 9.3 | 7.2 | 5.1 | 4 | 4.1 | 6 | 5.9 | 5.3 | |
long-term unemployment rate | 4.6 | 5.0 | 4.7 | 4.0 | 2.7 | 1.5 | 0.8 | 0.6 | 0.9 | 1.8 | 1.6 | |
assignation tax | 30 932 363 | 30 661 371 | 31 747 482 | 34 973 707 | 38 112 120 | 42 072 965 | 45 679 446 | 51 941 762 | 53 233 234 | 50 853 577 | 55 987 680 | |
demographic dependency | 20.4 | 21.3 | 22.2 | 23.1 | 24.2 | 25.4 | 26.5 | 27.9 | 29.1 | 29.8 | 30.7 | 31.7 |


Number of unemployed
rok | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 |
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less than 24 years | 1849 | 1598 | 1349 | 1114 | 777 | 509 | 359 | 400 | 618 | 577 | 515 | 497 |
25 to 39 years | 3057 | 2847 | 2616 | 2296 | 1838 | 1329 | 1016 | 1027 | 1431 | 1390 | 1214 | 1153 |
40 to 54 years | 2725 | 2572 | 2372 | 2061 | 1632 | 1144 | 920 | 918 | 1337 | 1378 | 1236 | 1214 |
55 years and more | 1068 | 1054 | 1044 | 1002 | 820 | 610 | 518 | 470 | 710 | 765 | 637 | 592 |

Other regions
- Basic data on Slovak regions
- Labour market indicators of slovak regions.
- Region Bratislava and surroundings
- Region Kopanice
- Region Danube river
- Region lower Vah river
- Region middle Vár river
- Region upper Nitra river
- Region lower Nitra river
- Region Mining cities
- Region Kysuce a Orava
- Region upper Vah river – Liptov
- Region Spiš cities
- Region upper Hron river
- Region Juhoslovenská kotlina
- Region Košice fold and Torysa river
- Region upper Zemplín
- Region lower Zemplín

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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