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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 2025-10-01, 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	1 949 1 022 544	3.7 % 3.9 % 1 %
Košice-Západ	36 275 23 054	810 427 276	3.5 % 3.6 % 1.2 %
Košice-Dargovských hrdinov	24 158 14 707	440 221 112	3 % 3 % 0.8 %
Košice-Nad jazerom	21 721 14 048	472 231 126	3.4 % 3.4 % 0.9 %
Košice-Sídlisko KVP	21 471 14 368	489 271 152	3.4 % 3.7 % 1.1 %
Košice-Juh	20 599 12 238	381 179 108	3.1 % 2.9 % 0.9 %
Košice-Sídlisko Ťahanovce	19 826 15 082	575 302 189	3.8 % 3.9 % 1.3 %
Košice-Staré Mesto	20 236 12 611	404 208 132	3.2 % 3.4 % 1 %
Košice-Sever	18 237 11 642	410 212 141	3.5 % 3.6 % 1.2 %
Sabinov	12 131 8 060	489 271 237	6.1 % 6.8 % 2.9 %
Moldava nad Bodvou	10 275 6 677	414 223 176	6.2 % 6.7 % 2.6 %
Košice-Luník IX	7 185 5 013	206 104 94	4.1 % 4.1 % 1.9 %
Veľký Šariš	6 976 4 599	246 137 97	5.3 % 6 % 2.1 %
Lipany	6 450 4 074	304 153 164	7.5 % 7.8 % 4 %
Košice-Krásna	6 282 4 230	114 65 29	2.7 % 3.1 % 0.7 %
Košice-Šaca	5 706 4 079	147 77 49	3.6 % 3.9 % 1.2 %
Medzev	4 166 2 644	150 87 77	5.7 % 6.8 % 2.9 %
Košice-Barca	3 656 2 399	67 30 21	2.8 % 2.6 % 0.9 %
Košice-Košická Nová Ves	3 178 2 058	65 37 14	3.2 % 3.7 % 0.7 %
Košice-Vyšné Opátske	2 779 1 836	35 18 11	1.9 % 2 % 0.6 %
Košice-Myslava	2 681 1 734	67 35 26	3.9 % 4.1 % 1.5 %
Košice-Ťahanovce	2 180 1 585	70 33 16	4.4 % 4.2 % 1 %
Košice-Pereš	2 205 1 453	38 24 14	2.6 % 3.3 % 1 %
Košice-Kavečany	1 355 904	31 14 9	3.4 % 3.1 % 1 %
Košice-Poľov	1 188 800	26 18 4	3.2 % 4.5 % 0.5 %
Košice-Lorinčík	1 203 806	13 5 3	1.6 % 1.3 % 0.4 %
Košice-Šebastovce	788 536	20 11 5	3.7 % 4 % 0.9 %
Košice-Džungľa	769 504	23 14 13	4.6 % 5.9 % 2.6 %

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	19 618
number of long-term unemployed	24 844	25 890	20 131	11 407	9236	9796	13 198	12 247	10 317	9510	8734
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	19 060
number of activational workers	8362	8150	6512	4152	3433	3112	3110	3385	1141	2181	2283
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	2594

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	6658

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	2684
25 to 39 years	21 316	16 883	13 683	8391	7709	9142	9452	8432	7422	7170	6833
40 to 54 years	17 429	14 393	12 372	8203	7303	8521	9179	8209	7480	7151	6870
55 years and more	5905	5433	5068	3889	3761	4570	5172	4398	3870	3418	3206

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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