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Region Košice fold and Torysa river

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Towns

Region Košice fold and Torysa river contains cities Košice-Barca, Košice-Dargovských hrdinov, Košice-Džungľa, Košice-Juh, Košice-Kavečany, Košice-Košická Nová Ves, Košice-Krásna, Košice-Lorinčík, Košice-Luník IX, Košice-Myslava, Košice-Nad jazerom, Košice-Pereš, Košice-Poľov, Košice-Šaca, Košice-Šebastovce, Košice-Sever, Košice-Sídlisko KVP, Košice-Sídlisko Ťahanovce, Košice-Staré Mesto, Košice-Ťahanovce, Košice-Vyšné Opátske, Košice-Západ, Lipany, Medzev, Moldava nad Bodvou, Prešov, Sabinov, Veľký Šariš and 242 villages. Statistics on city level on unemployment are for the period of 2025-12-01, 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
Prešov	81 702 52 656	2 025 1 068 555	3.8 % 4.1 % 1.1 %
Košice-Západ	36 275 23 054	793 410 274	3.4 % 3.5 % 1.2 %
Košice-Dargovských hrdinov	24 158 14 707	460 239 109	3.1 % 3.2 % 0.7 %
Košice-Nad jazerom	21 721 14 048	480 235 122	3.4 % 3.4 % 0.9 %
Košice-Sídlisko KVP	21 471 14 368	495 275 153	3.4 % 3.7 % 1.1 %
Košice-Juh	20 599 12 238	421 195 105	3.4 % 3.2 % 0.9 %
Košice-Staré Mesto	20 236 12 611	412 206 131	3.3 % 3.3 % 1 %
Košice-Sídlisko Ťahanovce	19 826 15 082	587 305 190	3.9 % 3.9 % 1.3 %
Košice-Sever	18 237 11 642	407 216 143	3.5 % 3.7 % 1.2 %
Sabinov	12 131 8 060	518 293 234	6.4 % 7.3 % 2.9 %
Moldava nad Bodvou	10 275 6 677	423 231 176	6.3 % 6.9 % 2.6 %
Košice-Luník IX	7 185 5 013	206 105 90	4.1 % 4.2 % 1.8 %
Veľký Šariš	6 976 4 599	283 146 99	6.2 % 6.4 % 2.2 %
Lipany	6 450 4 074	319 160 161	7.8 % 8.2 % 4 %
Košice-Krásna	6 282 4 230	111 70 28	2.6 % 3.4 % 0.7 %
Košice-Šaca	5 706 4 079	138 70 49	3.4 % 3.5 % 1.2 %
Medzev	4 166 2 644	148 85 77	5.6 % 6.6 % 2.9 %
Košice-Barca	3 656 2 399	65 31 19	2.7 % 2.7 % 0.8 %
Košice-Košická Nová Ves	3 178 2 058	63 37 17	3.1 % 3.7 % 0.8 %
Košice-Vyšné Opátske	2 779 1 836	39 23 11	2.1 % 2.6 % 0.6 %
Košice-Myslava	2 681 1 734	68 36 24	3.9 % 4.2 % 1.4 %
Košice-Pereš	2 205 1 453	39 23 13	2.7 % 3.2 % 0.9 %
Košice-Ťahanovce	2 180 1 585	66 32 16	4.2 % 4.1 % 1 %
Košice-Kavečany	1 355 904	34 17 10	3.8 % 3.8 % 1.1 %
Košice-Lorinčík	1 203 806	16 8 4	2 % 2 % 0.5 %
Košice-Poľov	1 188 800	25 17 5	3.1 % 4.2 % 0.6 %
Košice-Šebastovce	788 536	18 8 4	3.4 % 2.9 % 0.7 %
Košice-Džungľa	769 504	29 19 13	5.8 % 8.1 % 2.6 %

Villages with over 2000 inhabitants are Jarovnice (8261), Čaňa (6102), Valaliky (4549), Veľká Ida (4232), Ľubotice (4103), Kecerovce (4076), Jasov (3740), Turňa nad Bodvou (3686), Chminianske Jakubovany (3215), Pečovská Nová Ves (2903), Družstevná pri Hornáde (2852), Šarišské Michaľany (2695), Svinia (2673), Poproč (2647), Rozhanovce (2632), Fintice (2550), Ostrovany (2511), Drienovec (2486), Široké (2445), Drienov (2275), Seňa (2228), Kapušany (2156), Župčany (2139), Čečejovce (2119), Kendice (2082), Ďurkov (2066), Lemešany (2046), Víťaz (2040), Petrovany (2036), Malá Ida (2010).

villages by number of inhabitants
total	up to 300	300 to 500	500 to 1000	1000 to 1500	over 1500
242	39	46	64	46	47

Unemployment

rok	2012	2014	2016	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024	2025
number of unemployed	47 736	44 998	36 694	23 604	21 695	25 801	27 463	24 272	21 689	20 527	19 694
number of long-term unemployed	24 844	25 890	20 131	11 407	9236	9796	13 198	12 247	10 317	9510	8690
number of people receiving social benefits	51 415	47 001	35 075	26 028	23 198	22 624	20 569	22 143	22 103	20 763	19 011
number of activational workers	8362	8150	6512	4152	3433	3112	3110	3385	1141	2181	2291
unemployment rate	11.4	10.8	8.9	5.8	5.3	6.4	7.1	6.3	5.6	5.3	5.1
long-term unemployment rate	6.0	6.2	4.9	2.8	2.3	2.4	3.4	3.2	2.7	2.5	2.3
vacancies	180	565	2170	3950	4307	2942	2564	2635	2076	2603	2679

Demographics

demographic pyramid Košice fold and Torysa river

	2012	2014	2016	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024	2025
number of inhabitants	590 333	593 588	598 293	603 128	605 565	607 296	590 489	591 800	593 282	594 441	594 441
assignation tax	75 717 050	82 944 452	101 274 935	123 154 769	140 157 775	145 972 207	141 421 601	159 157 207	179 018 039	181 038 186	146 028 369
demographic dependency	18.7	20.2	22.0	23.9	24.9	25.7	26.6	27.5	28.2
number of employed foreigners	1148	1065	2078	3195	3556	3249	2902	3817	4882	5892	6753

number of inhabitants – Košice fold and Torysa river

Number of unemployed

rok	2012	2014	2016	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024	2025
less than 24 years	11 747	8289	5570	3121	2921	3568	3660	3232	2917	2787	2715
25 to 39 years	21 316	16 883	13 683	8391	7709	9142	9452	8432	7422	7170	6832
40 to 54 years	17 429	14 393	12 372	8203	7303	8521	9179	8209	7480	7151	6862
55 years and more	5905	5433	5068	3889	3761	4570	5172	4398	3870	3418	3219

least developed regions

Other regions

Košice fold and Torysa river number of inhabitants, unemployed for longer than 4 years, low educated unemployed

Suggested citation: Michal Páleník: Regions of Slovakia - Region Košice fold and Torysa river, IZ Bratislava, retrieved from: https://www.iz.sk/en/projects/regions-of-slovakia/kosice-fold-and-torysa-river

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