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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 2025-11-01, 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
Trnava	63 180 40 375	1 058 594 84	2.6 % 3 % 0.2 %
Piešťany	26 379 16 094	415 230 47	2.6 % 2.8 % 0.3 %
Hlohovec	19 458 12 533	308 163 46	2.5 % 2.6 % 0.4 %
Galanta	15 358 10 189	254 161 32	2.5 % 3.1 % 0.3 %
Sereď	15 059 10 009	303 163 36	3 % 3.3 % 0.4 %
Vrbové	5 554 3 707	68 33 9	1.8 % 1.8 % 0.2 %
Sládkovičovo	5 386 3 609	91 47 4	2.5 % 2.6 % 0.1 %
Leopoldov	3 873 2 526	71 35 6	2.8 % 2.8 % 0.2 %

Villages with over 2000 inhabitants are Veľké Úľany (5011), Cífer (4886), Šoporňa (4032), Jelka (3992), Trstice (3816), Špačince (3378), Pata (3274), Smolenice (3228), Horné Saliby (3169), Veľké Kostoľany (2829), Drahovce (2592), Zeleneč (2578), Zavar (2563), Veľká Mača (2560), Biely Kostol (2553), Chtelnica (2510), Brestovany (2507), Moravany nad Váhom (2505), Dolná Krupá (2454), Jaslovské Bohunice (2433), Boleráz (2395), Bučany (2380), Madunice (2340), Suchá nad Parnou (2328), Matúškovo (2248), Šúrovce (2245), Hrnčiarovce nad Parnou (2231), Majcichov (2181), Banka (2149), Dolné Saliby (2024), Váhovce (2008).

villages by number of inhabitants
total	up to 300	300 to 500	500 to 1000	1000 to 1500	over 1500
124	1	18	33	22	50

Unemployment

rok	2012	2014	2016	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024	2025
number of unemployed	14 331	13 218	8760	4692	4760	7350	7730	6235	5740	5544	5359
number of long-term unemployed	4297	4490	2248	603	466	765	1740	1358	994	783	580
number of people receiving social benefits	9513	7813	4632	2785	2276	2175	2115	2618	2588	2154	1898
number of activational workers	135	142	73.1	10.4	4.5	3.3	3.2	3	0.4	0.5	0.1
unemployment rate	6	5.6	3.8	2	2.1	3.3	3.5	2.8	2.6	2.5	2.5
long-term unemployment rate	1.8	1.9	1.0	0.3	0.2	0.3	0.8	0.6	0.5	0.4	0.3
vacancies	512	893	4302	13 272	10 453	7363	7806	9584	8913	9807	12 862

Demographics

	2012	2014	2016	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024	2025
number of inhabitants	331 716	332 519	333 377	334 096	334 595	334 690	333 398	333 197	333 193	332 533	332 533
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	153 814 567	124 390 225
demographic dependency	20.9	22.4	24.4	26.5	27.7	28.9	29.5	30.4	33.1
number of employed foreigners	1605	1701	4718	12 078	11 603	11 539	8341	10 158	11 971	12 272	15 493

Number of unemployed

rok	2012	2014	2016	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024	2025
less than 24 years	3550	2522	1324	586	570	940	902	735	699	683	696
25 to 39 years	6089	4752	3246	1838	1859	2810	2733	2233	1986	2020	1878
40 to 54 years	5097	4063	2754	1454	1532	2411	2660	2120	2007	1958	1979
55 years and more	2016	1881	1437	814	799	1188	1435	1147	1049	884	803

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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