Banská Bystrica Region

consists of counties:

• Brezno
• Lučenec
• Poltár
• Rimavská Sobota
• Veľký Krtíš
• Zvolen
• Žiar nad Hronom
• Banská Bystrica
• Banská Štiavnica
• Detva
• Krupina
• Žarnovica
• Revúca

Towns

Region Banská Bystrica Region contains cities Banská Bystrica, Banská Štiavnica, Brezno, Detva, Dudince, Fiľakovo, Hnúšťa, Hriňová, Jelšava, Kremnica, Krupina, Lučenec, Modrý Kameň, Nová Baňa, Poltár, Revúca, Rimavská Sobota, Sliač, Tisovec, Tornaľa, Veľký Krtíš, Žarnovica, Žiar nad Hronom, Zvolen and 492 villages. More on oma.sk. Statistics on city level on unemployment are for the period of 2026-04-01, for population are fore yar 2025.

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	73 054 45 970	1 656 806 371	3.6 % 3.4 % 0.8 %
Zvolen	38 747 25 197	885 454 231	3.5 % 3.6 % 0.9 %
Lučenec	24 427 15 792	871 428 327	5.5 % 5.3 % 2.1 %
Rimavská Sobota	20 964 13 647	1 005 520 477	7.4 % 7.5 % 3.5 %
Brezno	19 577 12 401	594 343 192	4.8 % 5.5 % 1.5 %
Žiar nad Hronom	16 433 10 602	490 260 156	4.6 % 4.9 % 1.5 %
Detva	13 416 8 688	443 241 147	5.1 % 5.7 % 1.7 %
Revúca	10 778 6 990	517 249 238	7.4 % 7.2 % 3.4 %
Veľký Krtíš	10 049 6 677	273 155 86	4.1 % 4.6 % 1.3 %
Fiľakovo	9 530 6 389	579 319 302	9.1 % 9.8 % 4.7 %
Banská Štiavnica	9 208 6 033	339 169 130	5.6 % 5.6 % 2.2 %
Krupina	7 496 4 869	216 111 54	4.4 % 4.6 % 1.1 %
Hriňová	6 867 4 453	231 129 79	5.2 % 5.9 % 1.8 %
Nová Baňa	6 799 4 323	217 119 76	5 % 5.5 % 1.8 %
Tornaľa	6 646 4 393	606 328 391	13.8 % 15.3 % 8.9 %
Hnúšťa	6 386 4 253	419 214 205	9.9 % 10.2 % 4.8 %
Žarnovica	5 509 3 568	205 111 85	5.7 % 6.2 % 2.4 %
Poltár	5 080 3 350	307 166 141	9.2 % 10 % 4.2 %
Sliač	4 806 3 098	90 57 21	2.9 % 3.7 % 0.7 %
Kremnica	4 586 2 875	110 54 41	3.8 % 3.9 % 1.4 %
Tisovec	3 533 2 289	215 126 113	9.4 % 11.3 % 4.9 %
Jelšava	3 178 2 168	296 163 178	13.7 % 15.9 % 8.2 %
Modrý Kameň	1 634 1 081	94 39 26	8.7 % 7.5 % 2.4 %
Dudince	1 377 877	26 12 6	3 % 2.7 % 0.7 %

Villages with over 2000 inhabitants are Čierny Balog (4916), Podbrezová (3470), Valaská (3336), Slovenská Ľupča (3261), Klenovec (2952), Polomka (2859), Zvolenská Slatina (2795), Kokava nad Rimavicou (2703), Hliník nad Hronom (2640), Očová (2451), Heľpa (2393), Jesenské (2351), Pliešovce (2262), Kalinovo (2253), Rimavská Seč (2219), Badín (2152), Brusno (2122), Selce (2100), Závadka nad Hronom (2099), Pohorelá (2054), Divín (2012).

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