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 2026-01-01, 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
Banská Bystrica	73 533 46 551	1 679 858 382	3.6 % 3.6 % 0.8 %
Zvolen	39 175 25 601	918 471 229	3.6 % 3.6 % 0.9 %
Lučenec	24 661 16 057	885 439 323	5.5 % 5.3 % 2 %
Rimavská Sobota	21 175 13 859	1 031 532 468	7.4 % 7.6 % 3.4 %
Brezno	19 671 12 560	539 326 190	4.3 % 5.1 % 1.5 %
Žiar nad Hronom	16 677 10 806	504 267 148	4.7 % 5 % 1.4 %
Detva	13 523 8 810	431 245 139	4.9 % 5.7 % 1.6 %
Revúca	10 874 7 100	545 262 244	7.7 % 7.4 % 3.4 %
Veľký Krtíš	10 274 6 896	296 166 83	4.3 % 4.8 % 1.2 %
Fiľakovo	9 623 6 447	587 319 315	9.1 % 9.8 % 4.9 %
Banská Štiavnica	9 293 6 115	352 183 131	5.8 % 6 % 2.1 %
Krupina	7 524 4 924	238 124 69	4.8 % 5.1 % 1.4 %
Hriňová	6 931 4 527	254 131 79	5.6 % 5.9 % 1.7 %
Nová Baňa	6 841 4 399	222 137 78	5 % 6.2 % 1.8 %
Tornaľa	6 702 4 461	601 326 402	13.5 % 14.9 % 9 %
Hnúšťa	6 436 4 299	421 213 202	9.8 % 10 % 4.7 %
Žarnovica	5 576 3 634	231 126 85	6.4 % 6.9 % 2.3 %
Poltár	5 123 3 388	296 158 142	8.7 % 9.4 % 4.2 %
Sliač	4 788 3 110	112 62 21	3.6 % 4 % 0.7 %
Kremnica	4 664 2 926	130 65 45	4.4 % 4.5 % 1.5 %
Tisovec	3 587 2 334	230 131 110	9.9 % 11.6 % 4.7 %
Jelšava	3 177 2 163	300 164 182	13.9 % 16.1 % 8.4 %
Modrý Kameň	1 630 1 080	97 45 27	9 % 8.7 % 2.5 %
Dudince	1 362 872	32 18 5	3.7 % 4.1 % 0.6 %

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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