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Region upper Nitra river

consists of counties:

Towns

Region upper Nitra river contains cities Bánovce nad Bebravou, Bojnice, Handlová, Nováky, Partizánske, Prievidza, Topoľčany and 165 villages. Statistics on city level on unemployment are for the period of 2023-09-01, for population are fore yar 2021.

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
Prievidza	44 355 29 822	1 202 696 370	4 % 4.7 % 1.2 %
Topoľčany	24 804 16 595	621 367 176	3.7 % 4.4 % 1.1 %
Partizánske	21 176 13 843	454 241 107	3.3 % 3.5 % 0.8 %
Bánovce nad Bebravou	16 943 11 429	362 215 85	3.2 % 3.7 % 0.7 %
Handlová	16 007 10 738	638 347 263	5.9 % 6.6 % 2.4 %
Bojnice	4 983 3 132	107 54 23	3.4 % 3.5 % 0.7 %
Nováky	4 167 2 780	98 49 37	3.5 % 3.7 % 1.3 %

Villages with over 2000 inhabitants are Bošany (4035), Kanianka (3939), Lehota pod Vtáčnikom (3784), Nitrianske Pravno (3138), Chynorany (2699), Solčany (2550), Dolné Vestenice (2449), Oslany (2380), Nedožery-Brezany (2112), Veľké Ripňany (2102), Prašice (2033), Veľké Uherce (2010), Bojná (2010).

villages by number of inhabitants
total	up to 300	300 to 500	500 to 1000	1000 to 1500	over 1500
165	30	29	51	22	33

Unemployment

rok	2012	2014	2016	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023
number of unemployed	20 222	20 117	14 191	7401	6859	9361	9313	7750	7169
number of long-term unemployed	8855	9952	6452	2110	1505	1924	3016	2558	2155
number of people receiving social benefits	10 071	9040	4810	2910	2509	2468	2310	2459	2383
number of activational workers	739	1009	590	276	198	160	153	150	58.2
unemployment rate	9.5	9.6	7	3.8	3.5	4.9	5	4.2	3.9
long-term unemployment rate	4.2	4.8	3.2	1.1	0.8	1.0	1.6	1.4	1.2

Demographics

demographic pyramid upper Nitra river 2023

	2012	2014	2016	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023
number of inhabitants	293 378	291 435	289 333	286 637	285 341	283 677	280 766	278 697	278 697
assignation tax	63 264 280	65 905 534	78 714 203	95 257 795	107 205 162	110 269 125	105 219 817	115 815 802	128 723 904
demographic dependency	21.3	22.9	25.3	27.8	29.1	30.3	31.3	32.6	33.5

demographic pyramid upper Nitra river 2035

number of inhabitants – upper Nitra river

Number of unemployed

rok	2012	2014	2016	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023
less than 24 years	4910	3728	2017	916	865	1217	1080	855	773
25 to 39 years	8036	7038	4990	2597	2432	3270	3092	2524	2269
40 to 54 years	7571	6522	4811	2412	2246	3083	3156	2691	2534
55 years and more	2761	2829	2372	1476	1316	1791	1984	1680	1580

Other regions

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

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

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

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