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Region middle Vár river

consists of counties:

Towns

Region middle Vah river contains cities Bytča, Dubnica nad Váhom, Ilava, Nemšová, Nová Dubnica, Nové Mesto nad Váhom, Považská Bystrica, Púchov, Rajec, Rajecké Teplice, Stará Turá, Trenčianske Teplice, Trenčín, Žilina and 192 villages.

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
Žilina	81 940 53 897	1 869 1 043 575	3.5 % 3.9 % 1.1 %
Trenčín	54 458 34 988	858 512 143	2.5 % 2.9 % 0.4 %
Považská Bystrica	38 125 25 998	786 446 175	3 % 3.5 % 0.7 %
Dubnica nad Váhom	22 286 15 326	445 237 74	2.9 % 3.1 % 0.5 %
Nové Mesto nad Váhom	19 489 12 578	353 210 66	2.8 % 3.3 % 0.5 %
Púchov	17 253 11 582	322 188 72	2.8 % 3.3 % 0.6 %
Bytča	11 432 7 700	309 167 72	4 % 4.4 % 0.9 %
Nová Dubnica	10 632 6 742	199 113 48	3 % 3.4 % 0.7 %
Stará Turá	8 565 5 548	162 84 29	2.9 % 3 % 0.5 %
Nemšová	6 317 4 231	93 53 14	2.2 % 2.5 % 0.3 %
Rajec	5 859 4 029	105 60 25	2.6 % 3.1 % 0.6 %
Ilava	5 591 3 698	99 52 9	2.7 % 2.8 % 0.2 %
Trenčianske Teplice	3 978 2 440	59 32 9	2.4 % 2.6 % 0.4 %
Rajecké Teplice	2 851 1 861	52 33 13	2.8 % 3.6 % 0.7 %

Villages with over 2000 inhabitants are Beluša (6199), Teplička nad Váhom (4345), Trenčianska Teplá (4211), Terchová (3997), Štiavnik (3974), Lednické Rovne (3935), Varín (3905), Čachtice (3654), Veľké Rovné (3652), Trenčianska Turná (3549), Trenčianske Stankovce (3408), Rosina (3360), Belá (3314), Horná Súča (3275), Dolná Súča (3063), Višňové (2992), Košeca (2739), Horné Srnie (2688), Strečno (2589), Moravské Lieskové (2524), Ladce (2489), Divina (2445), Soblahov (2415), Papradno (2390), Pruské (2310), Udiča (2226), Drietoma (2222), Kotešová (2206), Turie (2080), Pružina (2065), Lysá pod Makytou (2053), Bzince pod Javorinou (2035).

villages by number of inhabitants
total	up to 300	300 to 500	500 to 1000	1000 to 1500	over 1500
192	19	20	60	37	56

Unemployment

rok	2012	2014	2016	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023
number of unemployed	26 996	26 318	18 708	9955	9704	13 863	14 163	11 279	10 237
number of long-term unemployed	10 204	11 482	7044	2437	1842	2423	4203	3419	2555
number of people receiving social benefits	13 717	11 886	5746	3247	2655	2569	2398	3215	3306
number of activational workers	885	949	553	229	162	186	163	145	57.5
unemployment rate	7.1	7	5	2.7	2.7	3.9	4	3.2	2.9
long-term unemployment rate	2.7	3.0	1.9	0.7	0.5	0.7	1.2	1.0	0.7

Demographics

demographic pyramid middle Vah river 2023

	2012	2014	2016	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023
number of inhabitants	530 161	530 972	531 211	531 781	532 163	531 861	530 098	528 732	528 732
assignation tax	121 363 501	124 474 537	150 639 347	185 370 268	209 853 532	216 993 401	209 430 852	232 070 915	261 258 711
demographic dependency	20.7	22.0	23.9	25.9	27.1	28.2	29.1	30.2	32.0

demographic pyramid middle Vah river 2035

number of inhabitants – middle Vah river

Number of unemployed

rok	2012	2014	2016	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023
less than 24 years	6162	4847	2799	1231	1166	1725	1567	1236	1113
25 to 39 years	10 573	9066	6690	3585	3519	4929	4895	3962	3595
40 to 54 years	10 116	8366	5977	3105	3078	4520	4658	3735	3421
55 years and more	4275	4038	3242	2034	1941	2688	3044	2345	2075

Other regions

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

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

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

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