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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 2025-03-01, 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	1 227 612 361	4.5 % 4.5 % 1.3 %
Topoľčany	23 985 15 614	600 345 149	3.8 % 4.4 % 1 %
Partizánske	20 338 12 918	495 252 76	3.8 % 3.9 % 0.6 %
Bánovce nad Bebravou	16 103 10 502	276 149 56	2.6 % 2.9 % 0.5 %
Handlová	15 457 10 157	661 313 229	6.5 % 6.4 % 2.3 %
Bojnice	5 073 3 097	103 67 27	3.3 % 4.3 % 0.9 %
Nováky	4 093 2 700	122 56 27	4.5 % 4.3 % 1 %

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	2024	2025
number of unemployed	20 222	20 117	14 191	7401	6859	9361	9313	7750	7160	7082	7260
number of long-term unemployed	8855	9952	6452	2110	1505	1924	3016	2558	2140	2007	1913
number of people receiving social benefits	10 071	9040	4810	2910	2509	2468	2310	2459	2367	2260	2188
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	1.0
vacancies	289	345	2311	2920	3176	2550	2293	3199	2566	3561	2885

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	276 885	276 885
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	3192

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	4910	3728	2017	916	865	1217	1080	855	807	814	803
25 to 39 years	8036	7038	4990	2597	2432	3270	3092	2524	2246	2159	2194
40 to 54 years	7571	6522	4811	2412	2246	3083	3156	2691	2526	2652	2806
55 years and more	2761	2829	2372	1476	1316	1791	1984	1680	1581	1457	1456

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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