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 2026-06-01, 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	1 720 883 370	3.7 % 3.8 % 0.8 %
Zvolen	38 747 25 197	886 457 227	3.5 % 3.6 % 0.9 %
Lučenec	24 427 15 792	829 422 319	5.2 % 5.2 % 2 %
Rimavská Sobota	20 964 13 647	957 491 466	7 % 7.1 % 3.4 %
Brezno	19 577 12 401	583 344 182	4.7 % 5.5 % 1.5 %
Žiar nad Hronom	16 433 10 602	434 237 137	4.1 % 4.5 % 1.3 %
Detva	13 416 8 688	433 251 136	5 % 5.9 % 1.6 %
Revúca	10 778 6 990	493 241 245	7.1 % 6.9 % 3.5 %
Veľký Krtíš	10 049 6 677	273 151 85	4.1 % 4.5 % 1.3 %
Fiľakovo	9 530 6 389	562 309 288	8.8 % 9.5 % 4.5 %
Banská Štiavnica	9 208 6 033	305 152 131	5.1 % 5 % 2.2 %
Krupina	7 496 4 869	192 102 56	3.9 % 4.2 % 1.2 %
Hriňová	6 867 4 453	214 122 76	4.8 % 5.6 % 1.7 %
Nová Baňa	6 799 4 323	212 113 77	4.9 % 5.2 % 1.8 %
Tornaľa	6 646 4 393	578 312 384	13.2 % 14.5 % 8.7 %
Hnúšťa	6 386 4 253	403 205 196	9.5 % 9.7 % 4.6 %
Žarnovica	5 509 3 568	190 105 82	5.3 % 5.9 % 2.3 %
Poltár	5 080 3 350	293 157 140	8.7 % 9.4 % 4.2 %
Sliač	4 806 3 098	100 63 24	3.2 % 4.1 % 0.8 %
Kremnica	4 586 2 875	97 47 35	3.4 % 3.4 % 1.2 %
Tisovec	3 533 2 289	204 126 116	8.9 % 11.3 % 5.1 %
Jelšava	3 178 2 168	290 164 176	13.4 % 16 % 8.1 %
Modrý Kameň	1 634 1 081	93 46 29	8.6 % 8.9 % 2.7 %
Dudince	1 377 877	16 9 6	1.8 % 2 % 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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