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Region upper Hron river

consists of counties:

Towns

Region upper Hron river contains cities Banská Bystrica, Brezno, Detva, Hriňová, Sliač, Zvolen and 107 villages. Viac aj na oma.sk.

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
Banská Bystrica	75 317 49 025	1 738 895 499	3.5 % 3.5 % 1 %
Zvolen	40 239 26 832	962 520 333	3.6 % 3.8 % 1.2 %
Brezno	19 956 13 166	631 368 267	4.8 % 5.5 % 2 %
Detva	13 847 9 235	490 268 178	5.3 % 5.9 % 1.9 %
Hriňová	7 095 4 767	222 134 101	4.7 % 5.8 % 2.1 %
Sliač	4 828 3 196	110 62 40	3.4 % 3.9 % 1.3 %

Villages with over 2000 inhabitants are Čierny Balog (5011), Podbrezová (3572), Valaská (3414), Slovenská Ľupča (3257), Polomka (2900), Zvolenská Slatina (2791), Očová (2522), Heľpa (2428), Pliešovce (2241), Závadka nad Hronom (2152), Brusno (2144), Selce (2139), Pohorelá (2121), Badín (2035).

villages by number of inhabitants
total	up to 300	300 to 500	500 to 1000	1000 to 1500	over 1500
107	23	18	27	18	21

Unemployment

rok	2012	2014	2016	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023
number of unemployed	19 348	17 837	14 593	8069	7215	9294	9506	8052	7464
number of long-term unemployed	9196	8686	7171	3084	2340	2663	3838	3356	2871
number of people receiving social benefits	14 805	13 892	9619	6199	5241	5138	4856	5340	5504
number of activational workers	1414	1698	1186	619	406	443	421	389	150
unemployment rate	9.6	9.1	7.6	4.3	3.9	5.1	5.4	4.7	4.3
long-term unemployment rate	4.6	4.4	3.7	1.6	1.3	1.5	2.2	1.9	1.7

Demographics

demographic pyramid upper Hron river 2023

	2012	2014	2016	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023
number of inhabitants	276 709	275 630	274 571	273 538	272 637	271 964	264 233	262 961	262 961
assignation tax	64 656 891	65 603 458	79 417 092	96 516 280	109 432 235	112 803 768	107 840 952	119 356 557	132 255 645
demographic dependency	20.9	22.6	25.1	27.7	29.1	30.3	31.5	32.8	33.6

demographic pyramid upper Hron river 2035

number of inhabitants – upper Hron river

Number of unemployed

rok	2012	2014	2016	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023
less than 24 years	4017	3007	2039	884	803	1136	1074	870	827
25 to 39 years	7974	6219	5136	2663	2427	3173	3148	2628	2439
40 to 54 years	7241	5901	4922	2834	2464	3133	3295	2835	2626
55 years and more	2911	2710	2495	1688	1520	1852	1988	1719	1568

Other regions

upper Hron river number of inhabitants, unemployed for longer than 4 years, low educated unemployed

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

https://www.iz.sk/en/projects/regions-of-slovakia/upper-hron-river

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