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Region lower Nitra river

consists of counties:

Towns

Region lower Nitra river contains cities Dudince, Krupina, Levice, Nitra, Šahy, Tlmače, Vráble, Želiezovce, Zlaté Moravce and 211 villages. Statistics on city level on unemployment are for the period of 2025-08-01, 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
Nitra	75 945 48 238	1 212 730 140	2.5 % 3 % 0.3 %
Levice	30 556 20 054	685 415 172	3.4 % 4.1 % 0.9 %
Zlaté Moravce	11 762 7 350	194 120 37	2.6 % 3.3 % 0.5 %
Vráble	8 262 5 415	172 112 31	3.2 % 4.1 % 0.6 %
Krupina	7 524 4 924	207 110 66	4.2 % 4.5 % 1.3 %
Šahy	6 919 4 575	222 124 54	4.9 % 5.5 % 1.2 %
Želiezovce	6 558 4 289	156 103 45	3.6 % 4.8 % 1 %
Tlmače	3 507 2 211	56 40 13	2.5 % 3.8 % 0.6 %
Dudince	1 362 872	23 10 5	2.6 % 2.3 % 0.6 %

Villages with over 2000 inhabitants are Cabaj-Čápor (4342), Veľké Zálužie (4315), Lužianky (3101), Ivanka pri Nitre (2939), Mojmírovce (2938), Tekovské Lužany (2814), Topoľčianky (2676), Lehota (2384), Nitrianske Hrnčiarovce (2302), Zbehy (2229), Branč (2190), Výčapy-Opatovce (2158), Kozárovce (2088), Kalná nad Hronom (2083), Jelenec (2081), Rišňovce (2071), Vinodol (2060), Jarok (2060).

villages by number of inhabitants
total	up to 300	300 to 500	500 to 1000	1000 to 1500	over 1500
211	48	33	63	37	30

Unemployment

rok	2012	2014	2016	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024	2025
number of unemployed	23 429	21 418	15 165	7928	6540	8986	9235	7490	6882	6650	6724
number of long-term unemployed	10 624	10 344	7038	2581	1668	1784	2728	2300	1826	1684	1591
number of people receiving social benefits	20 332	17 411	11 226	7007	5796	5238	4908	5344	5318	5054	4839
number of activational workers	2373	2510	1651	596	365	331	350	343	107	212	209
unemployment rate	9.6	8.9	6.4	3.4	2.9	4	4.1	3.4	3.1	3	3.1
long-term unemployment rate	4.4	4.3	3.0	1.1	0.7	0.8	1.2	1.0	0.8	0.8	0.7
vacancies	217	429	1786	5516	8336	9249	8338	8900	10 341	8757	7565

Demographics

	2012	2014	2016	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024	2025
number of inhabitants	338 431	337 515	336 331	335 424	334 853	333 958	336 415	335 800	335 335	334 500	334 500
assignation tax	71 777 277	75 074 837	90 044 509	109 471 319	123 496 580	127 607 948	122 550 600	135 776 203	153 459 410	154 261 430	125 439 828
demographic dependency	21.5	22.8	24.7	27.0	28.2	29.3	29.7	30.8	32.5
number of employed foreigners	545	847	1788	3916	6031	6902	6743	7800	9002	9282	10 014

number of inhabitants – lower Nitra river

Number of unemployed

rok	2012	2014	2016	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024	2025
less than 24 years	5190	3524	1963	906	764	1144	1073	829	806	820	845
25 to 39 years	9935	7565	5208	2607	2201	3108	3026	2491	2219	2188	2204
40 to 54 years	9121	7324	5405	2808	2235	2987	3236	2643	2465	2382	2428
55 years and more	3328	3006	2590	1607	1340	1747	1899	1526	1392	1260	1223

Other regions

lower Nitra river number of inhabitants, unemployed for longer than 4 years, low educated unemployed

Suggested citation: Michal Páleník: Regions of Slovakia - Region lower Nitra river, IZ Bratislava, retrieved from: https://www.iz.sk/en/projects/regions-of-slovakia/lower-nitra-river

https://www.iz.sk/en/projects/regions-of-slovakia/lower-nitra-river

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