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 2026-02-01, 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	1 660 832 372	3.6 % 3.5 % 0.8 %
Zvolen	38 747 25 197	913 472 227	3.6 % 3.7 % 0.9 %
Lučenec	24 427 15 792	878 440 327	5.6 % 5.4 % 2.1 %
Rimavská Sobota	20 964 13 647	1 002 512 472	7.3 % 7.4 % 3.5 %
Brezno	19 577 12 401	566 330 193	4.6 % 5.3 % 1.6 %
Žiar nad Hronom	16 433 10 602	487 258 148	4.6 % 4.9 % 1.4 %
Detva	13 416 8 688	433 239 138	5 % 5.6 % 1.6 %
Revúca	10 778 6 990	528 247 238	7.6 % 7.1 % 3.4 %
Veľký Krtíš	10 049 6 677	284 164 83	4.3 % 4.9 % 1.2 %
Fiľakovo	9 530 6 389	575 310 310	9 % 9.6 % 4.9 %
Banská Štiavnica	9 208 6 033	362 183 131	6 % 6.1 % 2.2 %
Krupina	7 496 4 869	224 112 59	4.6 % 4.6 % 1.2 %
Hriňová	6 867 4 453	250 132 78	5.6 % 6.1 % 1.8 %
Nová Baňa	6 799 4 323	225 131 76	5.2 % 6.1 % 1.8 %
Tornaľa	6 646 4 393	617 330 400	14 % 15.4 % 9.1 %
Hnúšťa	6 386 4 253	410 206 204	9.6 % 9.8 % 4.8 %
Žarnovica	5 509 3 568	224 121 81	6.3 % 6.8 % 2.3 %
Poltár	5 080 3 350	289 155 139	8.6 % 9.3 % 4.1 %
Sliač	4 806 3 098	99 54 19	3.2 % 3.5 % 0.6 %
Kremnica	4 586 2 875	123 54 44	4.3 % 3.9 % 1.5 %
Tisovec	3 533 2 289	226 128 116	9.9 % 11.4 % 5.1 %
Jelšava	3 178 2 168	306 167 179	14.1 % 16.3 % 8.3 %
Modrý Kameň	1 634 1 081	92 42 25	8.5 % 8.1 % 2.3 %
Dudince	1 377 877	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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