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Region lower Vah river

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Towns

Region lower Vah river contains cities Galanta, Hlohovec, Leopoldov, Piešťany, Sereď, Sládkovičovo, Trnava, Vrbové and 124 villages. Statistics on city level on unemployment are for the period of 2023-09-01, for population are fore yar 2021.

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
Trnava	63 194 41 248	1 072 611 150	2.6 % 3 % 0.4 %
Piešťany	27 307 17 094	453 262 83	2.7 % 3 % 0.5 %
Hlohovec	20 274 13 409	340 196 63	2.5 % 3 % 0.5 %
Sereď	15 501 10 525	292 179 56	2.8 % 3.4 % 0.5 %
Galanta	15 098 10 276	282 159 50	2.7 % 3.1 % 0.5 %
Vrbové	5 698 3 925	98 46 15	2.5 % 2.3 % 0.4 %
Sládkovičovo	5 390 3 693	100 55 16	2.7 % 3 % 0.4 %
Leopoldov	3 944 2 632	66 37 8	2.5 % 2.9 % 0.3 %

Villages with over 2000 inhabitants are Veľké Úľany (4780), Cífer (4610), Šoporňa (4113), Jelka (4026), Trstice (3876), Špačince (3266), Pata (3241), Smolenice (3240), Horné Saliby (3190), Veľké Kostoľany (2799), Zeleneč (2637), Drahovce (2608), Veľká Mača (2602), Brestovany (2594), Chtelnica (2537), Biely Kostol (2477), Moravany nad Váhom (2456), Dolná Krupá (2453), Zavar (2396), Bučany (2390), Jaslovské Bohunice (2360), Boleráz (2349), Madunice (2282), Suchá nad Parnou (2275), Matúškovo (2274), Šúrovce (2233), Hrnčiarovce nad Parnou (2232), Majcichov (2213), Banka (2138), Váhovce (2072), Dvorníky (2029), Dolné Saliby (2012).

villages by number of inhabitants
total	up to 300	300 to 500	500 to 1000	1000 to 1500	over 1500
124	2	18	33	22	49

Unemployment

rok	2012	2014	2016	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023
number of unemployed	14 331	13 218	8760	4692	4760	7350	7730	6235	5748
number of long-term unemployed	4297	4490	2248	603	466	765	1740	1358	1012
number of people receiving social benefits	9513	7813	4632	2785	2276	2175	2115	2618	2640
number of activational workers	135	142	73.1	10.4	4.5	3.3	3.2	3	0.5
unemployment rate	6	5.6	3.8	2	2.1	3.3	3.5	2.8	2.6
long-term unemployment rate	1.8	1.9	1.0	0.3	0.2	0.3	0.8	0.6	0.5

Demographics

demographic pyramid lower Vah river 2023

	2012	2014	2016	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023
number of inhabitants	331 716	332 519	333 377	334 096	334 595	334 690	333 398	333 197	333 197
assignation tax	69 178 478	72 810 372	88 367 340	108 964 831	123 456 974	128 272 108	123 200 087	136 397 218	153 364 302
demographic dependency	20.9	22.4	24.4	26.5	27.7	28.9	29.5	30.4	33.1

demographic pyramid lower Vah river 2035

Number of unemployed

rok	2012	2014	2016	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023
less than 24 years	3436	2522	1324	586	570	940	902	735	665
25 to 39 years	5933	4752	3246	1838	1859	2810	2733	2233	1977
40 to 54 years	4995	4063	2754	1454	1532	2411	2660	2120	2019
55 years and more	1976	1881	1437	814	799	1188	1435	1147	1045

Other regions

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

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

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

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