Region Košice fold and Torysa river

consists of counties:

• Prešov
• Sabinov
• Košice I
• Košice II
• Košice III
• Košice IV
• Košice – okolie

Region is situated in the southeast of Slovakia, in drainage of river Torysa. Heart of the region is made by Košická fold, which is surrounded by Slánske mountains in the east and Cergov and Sarišská highland in the north. West border is made by Volovské mountain. The fold has character of downland in the south. From southwest there spreads partly national park Slovenský raj. There occure certain water basins, which are useful for water industry, or for recreation. In the district Košice surroundings are situated water basins Bukovec I and II, which are provided for industrial water for VSZ, balancing of the overflow, recreation and water industry. In this district ocure also water basins Ružín I and II, which are provided for industrial water for VSZ and other industrial factories, subtilization of exhaust water, production of high quality electric energy, protection from floods, recreation. Ružín II is balancing basin.

Košice is second biggest city in Slovakia, with historical importance. developed economical base, the town is economic and administrative centre and travel crossroad of east Slovakia. Košice represent also cultural and educational center for wide environment and it has other functions with overregional importance.

Prešov is third biggest city of Slovakia and is same as Košice important economic and cultural center of east Slovakia. Towns situated in this region achieve good economic level, while the other parts dispose with very low and unfavourable level of economic base.

Košice and Prešov are crossroads of transit and railway network, with good travel connections to Hungary, Ukraine and Poland. It is also connected to travel corridors of neighbouring countries. Density of travel network is sufficient, Košice and Prešov are connected by highway. Airport in Košice is by technic side at very good European standard.

Region Košice fold and Torysa river contains cities Košice, Lipany, Medzev, Moldava nad Bodvou, Prešov, Sabinov, Veľký Šariš and 242 villages. Viac aj na oma.sk.

Basic data

rok	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022
number of inhabitants	590 265	591 898	593 493	595 655	598 293	600 741	603 128	605 580	607 318	590 489	608 305
number of unemployed	47 736	48 331	44 998	41 684	36 694	29 390	23 604	21 695	25 801	27 463	24 272
number of long-term unemployed	24 844	26 635	25 890	23 700	20 131	15 579	11 407	9236	9796	13 198	12 247
number of people receiving social benefits	51 415	51 374	47 001	39 823	35 075	30 888	26 028	23 198	22 624	20 569	22 143
number of activational workers	8362	7910	8150	7354	6512	5449	4152	3433	3112	3110	3385
unemployment rate	17.8	17.8	16.2	14.9	13	10.6	8.1	7.4	8.9	9.6	8.6
long-term unemployment rate	9.3	9.8	9.3	8.5	7.1	5.6	3.9	3.2	3.4	4.6	4.3
assignation tax	75 717 050	78 475 878	82 944 452	92 311 239	101 274 935	114 209 421	123 154 769	140 157 775	145 972 207	141 421 601	159 157 207
demographic dependency	18.7	19.4	20.2	21.1	22.0	22.9	23.9	24.9	25.7	26.6	27.3

Number of unemployed

rok	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022
less than 24 years	11 443	9423	8289	7064	5570	4201	3121	2921	3568	3660	3232
25 to 39 years	20 824	18 277	16 883	15 552	13 683	10 795	8391	7709	9142	9452	8432
40 to 54 years	17 042	15 139	14 393	13 609	12 372	10 049	8203	7303	8521	9179	8209
55 years and more	5765	5492	5433	5459	5068	4346	3889	3761	4570	5172	4398

least developed regions

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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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