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Region Spiš cities

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Region of Spiš`s towns spreads in northeast part of Slovakia. The area is very heterogenous. There flows rivers – Hornád, Hnilec, Dunajec and Poprad throught the folds. In the north occurs mountains Spišská Magura and Levočské vrchy, in the south Volovské vrchy and Slovenský raj. West border is made by the biggest mountain of Slovakia – Vysoké Tatry, east part is delimited by upland Šarišská vrchovina. The area of historical and recent Spiš pass throught national natural parks Slovenký Raj, TANAP and national park Pieniny. The skeleton of the region is represented by the river valleys – Poprad and Hornád, where live a majority of region`s population.

It deals of large region, which districts are historical interconnected. Also nowadays has the region relationship with other regions in Poland. Small part of historical region lies in today's south Poland, between rivers Dunajec and Bialka and slovak national frontier.

Even though that this region was very rich in the past, today it deals with heavy economical problems, espacially with large unemployment, getting to 17 %. Unemployment in this region befall specially social group of gypsies. The lowest unemployment rate is achieved in districts Stará Lubovňa (11 %) and Poprad (13 %). However, the economic situation improve each year, mainly thanks to foreign investments (Whirlpool in Poprad, Embraco in Spišská Nová Ves and others).

Region Spiš cities contains cities Gelnica, Kežmarok, Krompachy, Levoča, Podolínec, Poprad, Spišská Belá, Spišská Nová Ves, Spišská Stará Ves, Spišské Podhradie, Spišské Vlachy, Stará Ľubovňa, Svit, Vysoké Tatry and 189 villages. Viac aj na oma.sk.

unemployment in LAU2 regions Spiš cities LAU2

Basic data

rok	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022
number of inhabitants	391 770	392 964	394 156	395 238	396 562	397 895	398 913	399 968	401 099	393 019	406 905
number of unemployed	38 552	38 830	36 164	34 513	30 042	23 838	19 693	18 307	21 036	21 596	19 315
number of long-term unemployed	21 379	22 499	21 833	19 886	16 719	12 680	9237	7697	8439	10 438	9495
number of people receiving social benefits	46 702	46 622	42 604	37 021	33 642	29 795	25 794	24 406	24 173	21 623	23 694
number of activational workers	6526	6304	6256	5174	4599	3513	2842	2806	2862	2213	2632
unemployment rate	21.4	21.3	19.7	18.8	16.3	13	10.6	9.8	11.3	11.8	10.7
long-term unemployment rate	11.9	12.4	11.9	10.9	9.1	6.9	5.0	4.1	4.5	5.7	5.2
assignation tax	97 702 749	94 950 045	98 660 730	109 712 192	119 850 260	133 782 810	143 289 860	162 656 004	168 388 697	162 680 441	183 146 599
demographic dependency	16.9	17.5	18.1	18.9	19.8	20.6	21.5	22.4	23.3	24.0	23.7

Number of unemployed

rok	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022
less than 24 years	9924	8268	7280	6694	5480	4014	3163	2968	3550	3373	2884
25 to 39 years	16 653	14 614	13 584	12 985	11 272	8827	7198	6682	7657	7642	7020
40 to 54 years	13 908	12 358	11 683	11 212	9902	7960	6617	6064	6790	7209	6376
55 years and more	3686	3590	3617	3622	3387	3036	2715	2594	3038	3373	3035

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Spiš cities number of inhabitants, unemployed for longer than 4 years, low educated unemployed

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

https://www.iz.sk/en/projects/regions-of-slovakia/spis-cities

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