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Region upper Zemplín

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Towns

Region upper Zemplín contains cities Bardejov, Giraltovce, Hanušovce nad Topľou, Humenné, Medzilaborce, Snina, Stropkov, Svidník, Vranov nad Topľou and 375 villages. Statistics on city level on unemployment are for the period of 2025-04-01, 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
Humenné	29 567 19 760	981 504 448	5 % 5.1 % 2.3 %
Bardejov	29 788 19 726	1 126 536 447	5.7 % 5.6 % 2.3 %
Vranov nad Topľou	20 262 13 622	1 017 500 453	7.5 % 7.4 % 3.3 %
Snina	17 879 12 299	705 423 356	5.7 % 6.8 % 2.9 %
Svidník	9 647 6 267	383 189 166	6.1 % 6 % 2.6 %
Stropkov	9 683 6 459	620 325 339	9.6 % 10.3 % 5.2 %
Medzilaborce	5 723 3 785	402 207 220	10.6 % 11.3 % 5.8 %
Giraltovce	3 958 2 696	249 137 139	9.2 % 10.5 % 5.2 %
Hanušovce nad Topľou	3 728 2 438	266 152 152	10.9 % 12.3 % 6.2 %

Villages with over 2000 inhabitants are Zborov (3551), Belá nad Cirochou (3339), Zámutov (3301), Vechec (2884), Raslavice (2762), Bystré (2754), Čaklov (2698), Sečovská Polianka (2663), Soľ (2610), Sačurov (2520), Stakčín (2374), Kamenica nad Cirochou (2273).

villages by number of inhabitants
total	up to 300	300 to 500	500 to 1000	1000 to 1500	over 1500
375	188	67	83	19	18

Unemployment

rok	2012	2014	2016	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024	2025
number of unemployed	36 531	35 400	30 856	19 966	18 813	21 080	21 909	19 460	18 575	17 647	17 405
number of long-term unemployed	19 735	21 701	17 531	9622	8250	8928	11 056	10 167	9428	9135	8762
number of people receiving social benefits	35 946	34 012	24 556	18 178	16 524	16 025	14 250	14 954	14 681	14 256	13 713
number of activational workers	7275	7561	5314	3276	2991	2756	2646	2741	869	1751	1871
unemployment rate	15.7	15.4	13.6	8.9	8.5	9.6	10.4	9.4	9	8.7	8.5
long-term unemployment rate	8.5	9.4	7.7	4.3	3.7	4.1	5.3	4.9	4.6	4.5	4.3
vacancies	344	648	1826	2359	2867	2146	1900	1789	1162	1322	1226

Demographics

	2012	2014	2016	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024	2025
number of inhabitants	326 202	325 396	323 637	322 187	321 215	320 211	311 168	309 929	309 002	308 168	308 168
assignation tax	73 990 675	75 592 119	90 359 753	107 879 884	121 616 154	124 795 150	119 600 239	132 492 079	146 027 086	146 443 546	118 279 335
demographic dependency	18.7	19.9	21.5	23.2	24.3	25.2	26.0	27.1	26.9
number of employed foreigners	107	769	880	648	770	826	823	982	1050	1254	1341

Number of unemployed

rok	2012	2014	2016	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024	2025
less than 24 years	9025	6818	5364	3074	2986	3323	3339	2901	2693	2563	2502
25 to 39 years	15 836	13 236	11 487	7128	6650	7417	7561	6704	6308	6009	5937
40 to 54 years	13 436	11 543	10 223	6683	6200	6929	7235	6547	6356	6066	6110
55 years and more	3773	3803	3782	3080	2977	3411	3774	3308	3218	3008	2950

least developed regions

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

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

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

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