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Region Kysuce a Orava

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Towns

Region Kysuce a Orava contains cities Čadca, Dolný Kubín, Krásno nad Kysucou, Kysucké Nové Mesto, Námestovo, Trstená, Turzovka, Tvrdošín and 92 villages. Statistics on city level on unemployment are for the period of 2025-09-01, 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
Čadca	22 307 15 181	646 359 162	4.3 % 4.8 % 1.1 %
Dolný Kubín	17 540 11 471	426 204 115	3.7 % 3.6 % 1 %
Kysucké Nové Mesto	14 306 9 586	448 240 145	4.7 % 5.1 % 1.5 %
Tvrdošín	8 695 5 646	187 105 48	3.3 % 3.9 % 0.9 %
Námestovo	7 355 4 939	156 105 41	3.2 % 4.4 % 0.8 %
Trstená	6 953 4 733	171 90 37	3.6 % 3.9 % 0.8 %
Turzovka	6 853 4 688	184 107 52	3.9 % 4.7 % 1.1 %
Krásno nad Kysucou	6 506 4 564	177 89 29	3.9 % 4 % 0.6 %

Villages with over 2000 inhabitants are Oščadnica (5745), Raková (5626), Zákamenné (5598), Skalité (5231), Rabča (5213), Čierne (4423), Oravská Polhora (3986), Nižná (3948), Novoť (3742), Oravská Lesná (3416), Svrčinovec (3358), Nesluša (3184), Hruštín (3155), Mútne (3123), Oravské Veselé (3001), Liesek (2988), Stará Bystrica (2765), Staškov (2748), Nová Bystrica (2631), Vysoká nad Kysucou (2549), Zázrivá (2539), Klin (2504), Lokca (2411), Zubrohlava (2409), Kysucký Lieskovec (2379), Klokočov (2270), Zborov nad Bystricou (2191), Sihelné (2191), Rabčice (2061).

villages by number of inhabitants
total	up to 300	300 to 500	500 to 1000	1000 to 1500	over 1500
92	2	6	23	17	44

Unemployment

rok	2012	2014	2016	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024	2025
number of unemployed	17 484	17 824	11 761	6904	6442	8850	8930	7319	6564	6410	6669
number of long-term unemployed	6758	8484	4882	2158	1606	1974	3066	2566	2044	1897	1780
number of people receiving social benefits	9235	8352	3915	2095	1765	1768	1676	1994	1772	1595	1508
number of activational workers	726	760	409	143	90.6	97	110	122	33.6	85.2	84.7
unemployment rate	9.4	9.6	6.4	3.8	3.5	4.9	5	4.2	3.8	3.7	3.8
long-term unemployment rate	3.6	4.6	2.6	1.2	0.9	1.1	1.7	1.5	1.2	1.1	1.0
vacancies	130	296	1153	2226	2970	2103	2406	3111	2213	3105	2746

Demographics

	2012	2014	2016	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024	2025
number of inhabitants	260 538	260 771	261 080	261 247	261 341	261 259	258 925	258 561	258 641	258 332	258 332
assignation tax	65 182 134	65 279 294	79 148 269	95 549 060	107 911 864	111 300 340	106 722 146	118 073 398	132 162 682	132 678 220	108 177 115
demographic dependency	16.4	17.3	18.9	20.4	21.2	22.0	22.6	23.6	24.0
number of employed foreigners	110	816	1302	749	1133	1309	1328	1954	2677	2646	2754

Number of unemployed

rok	2012	2014	2016	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024	2025
less than 24 years	4972	3832	1994	1027	961	1350	1261	985	897	923	897
25 to 39 years	6758	5854	3873	2278	2130	2934	2853	2381	2083	2116	2224
40 to 54 years	6496	5929	4023	2305	2102	2910	3002	2424	2212	2188	2302
55 years and more	2137	2209	1871	1295	1249	1656	1814	1530	1372	1184	1213

Other regions

Kysuce a Orava number of inhabitants, unemployed for longer than 4 years, low educated unemployed

Suggested citation: Michal Páleník: Regions of Slovakia - Region Kysuce a Orava, IZ Bratislava, retrieved from: https://www.iz.sk/en/projects/regions-of-slovakia/kysuce-a-orava

https://www.iz.sk/en/projects/regions-of-slovakia/kysuce-a-orava

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