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 2025-12-01, 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	1 631 862 356	3.5 % 3.6 % 0.8 %
Zvolen	39 175 25 601	895 475 225	3.5 % 3.7 % 0.9 %
Lučenec	24 661 16 057	869 442 325	5.4 % 5.3 % 2 %
Rimavská Sobota	21 175 13 859	1 018 519 459	7.3 % 7.4 % 3.3 %
Brezno	19 671 12 560	536 319 191	4.3 % 5 % 1.5 %
Žiar nad Hronom	16 677 10 806	484 261 140	4.5 % 4.9 % 1.3 %
Detva	13 523 8 810	412 225 135	4.7 % 5.2 % 1.5 %
Revúca	10 874 7 100	546 260 235	7.7 % 7.4 % 3.3 %
Veľký Krtíš	10 274 6 896	297 163 84	4.3 % 4.7 % 1.2 %
Fiľakovo	9 623 6 447	599 332 306	9.3 % 10.2 % 4.7 %
Banská Štiavnica	9 293 6 115	350 177 133	5.7 % 5.8 % 2.2 %
Krupina	7 524 4 924	242 127 66	4.9 % 5.2 % 1.3 %
Hriňová	6 931 4 527	238 120 79	5.3 % 5.4 % 1.7 %
Nová Baňa	6 841 4 399	212 125 75	4.8 % 5.7 % 1.7 %
Tornaľa	6 702 4 461	581 316 402	13 % 14.5 % 9 %
Hnúšťa	6 436 4 299	422 213 199	9.8 % 10 % 4.6 %
Žarnovica	5 576 3 634	221 120 82	6.1 % 6.6 % 2.3 %
Poltár	5 123 3 388	290 158 144	8.6 % 9.4 % 4.3 %
Sliač	4 788 3 110	103 64 25	3.3 % 4.1 % 0.8 %
Kremnica	4 664 2 926	126 66 43	4.3 % 4.6 % 1.5 %
Tisovec	3 587 2 334	227 131 109	9.7 % 11.6 % 4.7 %
Jelšava	3 177 2 163	300 161 181	13.9 % 15.8 % 8.4 %
Modrý Kameň	1 630 1 080	99 45 25	9.2 % 8.7 % 2.3 %
Dudince	1 362 872	30 17 5	3.4 % 3.8 % 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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