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Region lower Zemplín

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Towns

Region lower Zemplín contains cities Čierna nad Tisou, Kráľovský Chlmec, Michalovce, Sečovce, Sobrance, Strážske, Trebišov, Veľké Kapušany and 199 villages. More on oma.sk. Statistics on city level on unemployment are for the period of 2025-04-01, 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
Michalovce	35 310 23 372	1 033 531 438	4.4 % 4.5 % 1.9 %
Trebišov	22 780 14 783	883 453 466	6 % 6.1 % 3.2 %
Veľké Kapušany	8 347 5 657	481 243 294	8.5 % 8.5 % 5.2 %
Sečovce	8 538 5 431	347 194 178	6.4 % 7.2 % 3.3 %
Kráľovský Chlmec	7 322 4 934	504 273 324	10.2 % 11.1 % 6.6 %
Sobrance	5 789 3 770	304 175 182	8.1 % 9.4 % 4.8 %
Strážske	4 166 2 863	153 83 59	5.3 % 5.9 % 2.1 %
Čierna nad Tisou	3 367 2 317	252 137 140	10.9 % 11.8 % 6 %

Villages with over 2000 inhabitants are Pavlovce nad Uhom (4647), Streda nad Bodrogom (2277), Vojčice (2204), Trhovište (2098), Vinné (2079).

villages by number of inhabitants
total	up to 300	300 to 500	500 to 1000	1000 to 1500	over 1500
199	42	49	67	27	14

Unemployment

rok	2012	2014	2016	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024	2025
number of unemployed	27 730	25 117	21 704	15 797	14 296	15 440	17 227	15 032	13 454	12 688	12 101
number of long-term unemployed	16 981	16 576	13 498	8894	7569	7699	9713	8803	7530	7133	6719
number of people receiving social benefits	32 124	28 630	22 666	17 604	15 807	14 853	13 673	13 774	12 959	12 382	12 023
number of activational workers	6708	6752	5755	3923	3459	3325	2563	3005	1080	1696	1866
unemployment rate	16.4	14.9	13	9.6	8.8	9.5	10.9	9.6	8.7	8.2	7.8
long-term unemployment rate	10.0	9.9	8.1	5.4	4.6	4.7	6.2	5.6	4.9	4.6	4.4
vacancies	219	166	766	1952	1986	1503	1136	1112	1086	1232	1355

Demographics

	2012	2014	2016	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024	2025
number of inhabitants	239 883	239 474	239 406	238 922	238 832	238 581	234 274	233 808	233 360	233 038	233 038
assignation tax	48 078 488	51 565 026	61 835 464	73 956 978	83 265 306	85 719 830	81 897 527	91 492 877	101 128 919	101 215 288	83 457 422
demographic dependency	18.7	19.7	21.2	22.9	23.8	24.7	25.6	26.7	26.9
number of employed foreigners	127	210	444	823	1068	1221	1057	1077	1114	1127	1191

Number of unemployed

rok	2012	2014	2016	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024	2025
less than 24 years	6022	4043	3139	2048	1850	2126	2307	1965	1802	1718	1655
25 to 39 years	11 760	9434	8072	5477	4947	5331	5840	4998	4422	4073	3899
40 to 54 years	10 664	8586	7578	5680	5078	5359	6021	5372	4817	4635	4459
55 years and more	3229	3054	2914	2591	2422	2623	3060	2697	2412	2262	2113

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

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

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

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