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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 2025-12-01, 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
Prievidza	42 429 27 466	1 236 646 374	4.5 % 4.8 % 1.4 %
Topoľčany	23 985 15 614	618 348 152	4 % 4.4 % 1 %
Partizánske	20 338 12 918	529 274 89	4.1 % 4.3 % 0.7 %
Bánovce nad Bebravou	16 103 10 502	341 190 67	3.2 % 3.6 % 0.6 %
Handlová	15 457 10 157	727 374 252	7.2 % 7.6 % 2.5 %
Bojnice	5 073 3 097	91 53 21	2.9 % 3.4 % 0.7 %
Nováky	4 093 2 700	125 61 39	4.6 % 4.7 % 1.4 %

Villages with over 2000 inhabitants are Bošany (3989), Kanianka (3802), Lehota pod Vtáčnikom (3697), Nitrianske Pravno (3077), Chynorany (2661), Solčany (2475), Oslany (2399), Dolné Vestenice (2374), Veľké Ripňany (2094), Nedožery-Brezany (2054).

villages by number of inhabitants
total	up to 300	300 to 500	500 to 1000	1000 to 1500	over 1500
165	30	30	50	21	34

Unemployment

rok	2012	2014	2016	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024	2025
number of unemployed	20 222	20 117	14 191	7401	6859	9361	9313	7750	7160	7082	7188
number of long-term unemployed	8855	9952	6452	2110	1505	1924	3016	2558	2140	2007	1897
number of people receiving social benefits	10 071	9040	4810	2910	2509	2468	2310	2459	2367	2260	2191
number of activational workers	739	1009	590	276	198	160	153	150	48.7	115	124
unemployment rate	9.5	9.6	7	3.8	3.5	4.9	5	4.2	3.9	3.9	4
long-term unemployment rate	4.2	4.8	3.2	1.1	0.8	1.0	1.6	1.4	1.2	1.1	1.1
vacancies	289	345	2311	2920	3176	2550	2293	3199	2566	3561	3204

Demographics

	2012	2014	2016	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024	2025
number of inhabitants	293 378	291 435	289 333	286 637	285 341	283 677	280 766	278 697	276 885	275 039	275 039
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	128 229 179	104 858 822
demographic dependency	21.3	22.9	25.3	27.8	29.1	30.3	31.3	32.6	33.5
number of employed foreigners	410	292	521	991	1334	1622	1523	2095	2739	2976	3464

number of inhabitants – upper Nitra river

Number of unemployed

rok	2012	2014	2016	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024	2025
less than 24 years	5076	3728	2017	916	865	1217	1080	855	807	814	823
25 to 39 years	8249	7038	4990	2597	2432	3270	3092	2524	2246	2159	2153
40 to 54 years	7755	6522	4811	2412	2246	3083	3156	2691	2526	2652	2718
55 years and more	2830	2829	2372	1476	1316	1791	1984	1680	1581	1457	1453

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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