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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 2025-04-01, 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
Prešov	81 702 52 656	1 849 954 614	3.5 % 3.6 % 1.2 %
Košice-Západ	36 275 23 054	769 396 260	3.3 % 3.4 % 1.1 %
Košice-Dargovských hrdinov	24 158 14 707	414 205 124	2.8 % 2.8 % 0.8 %
Košice-Nad jazerom	21 721 14 048	430 213 128	3.1 % 3.1 % 0.9 %
Košice-Sídlisko KVP	21 471 14 368	463 246 145	3.2 % 3.3 % 1 %
Košice-Juh	20 599 12 238	372 178 101	3 % 2.9 % 0.8 %
Košice-Sídlisko Ťahanovce	19 826 15 082	522 267 181	3.5 % 3.4 % 1.2 %
Košice-Staré Mesto	20 236 12 611	385 206 137	3.1 % 3.3 % 1.1 %
Košice-Sever	18 237 11 642	383 199 148	3.3 % 3.4 % 1.3 %
Sabinov	12 131 8 060	494 274 244	6.1 % 6.8 % 3 %
Moldava nad Bodvou	10 275 6 677	400 229 193	6 % 6.9 % 2.9 %
Košice-Luník IX	7 185 5 013	204 108 101	4.1 % 4.3 % 2 %
Veľký Šariš	6 976 4 599	238 141 112	5.2 % 6.1 % 2.4 %
Lipany	6 450 4 074	318 152 167	7.8 % 7.8 % 4.1 %
Košice-Krásna	6 282 4 230	102 53 37	2.4 % 2.5 % 0.9 %
Košice-Šaca	5 706 4 079	134 70 50	3.3 % 3.5 % 1.2 %
Medzev	4 166 2 644	158 95 75	6 % 7.4 % 2.8 %
Košice-Barca	3 656 2 399	55 33 17	2.3 % 2.8 % 0.7 %
Košice-Košická Nová Ves	3 178 2 058	47 24 13	2.3 % 2.4 % 0.6 %
Košice-Vyšné Opátske	2 779 1 836	37 17 10	2 % 1.9 % 0.5 %
Košice-Myslava	2 681 1 734	59 30 28	3.4 % 3.5 % 1.6 %
Košice-Ťahanovce	2 180 1 585	53 28 23	3.3 % 3.5 % 1.5 %
Košice-Pereš	2 205 1 453	43 25 17	3 % 3.4 % 1.2 %
Košice-Kavečany	1 355 904	25 14 8	2.8 % 3.1 % 0.9 %
Košice-Poľov	1 188 800	20 10 5	2.5 % 2.5 % 0.6 %
Košice-Lorinčík	1 203 806	13 7 5	1.6 % 1.8 % 0.6 %
Košice-Šebastovce	788 536	16 3 3	3 % 1.1 % 0.6 %
Košice-Džungľa	769 504	35 21 9	6.9 % 8.9 % 1.8 %

Villages with over 2000 inhabitants are Jarovnice (7447), Čaňa (5930), Valaliky (4468), Veľká Ida (3985), Kecerovce (3853), Ľubotice (3744), Turňa nad Bodvou (3686), Jasov (3597), Chminianske Jakubovany (2875), Pečovská Nová Ves (2807), Družstevná pri Hornáde (2796), Šarišské Michaľany (2734), Poproč (2667), Rozhanovce (2606), Svinia (2441), Široké (2426), Drienovec (2387), Ostrovany (2360), Drienov (2242), Fintice (2237), Seňa (2189), Kapušany (2167), Čečejovce (2107), Lemešany (2014), Kendice (2009).

villages by number of inhabitants
total	up to 300	300 to 500	500 to 1000	1000 to 1500	over 1500
242	38	47	72	39	46

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	19 401
number of long-term unemployed	24 844	25 890	20 131	11 407	9236	9796	13 198	12 247	10 317	9510	8883
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	19 314
number of activational workers	8362	8150	6512	4152	3433	3112	3110	3385	1141	2181	2270
unemployment rate	11.4	10.8	8.9	5.8	5.3	6.4	7.1	6.3	5.6	5.3	5
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	2369

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	6375

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	11 443	8289	5570	3121	2921	3568	3660	3232	2917	2787	2558
25 to 39 years	20 824	16 883	13 683	8391	7709	9142	9452	8432	7422	7170	6777
40 to 54 years	17 042	14 393	12 372	8203	7303	8521	9179	8209	7480	7151	6905
55 years and more	5765	5433	5068	3889	3761	4570	5172	4398	3870	3418	3193

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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