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Orava

consists of counties:

Towns

Region Orava contains cities Dolný Kubín, Námestovo, Trstená, Tvrdošín and 59 villages. More on oma.sk. Statistics on city level on unemployment are for the period of 2024-04-01, for population are fore yar 2021.

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
Dolný Kubín	17 916 12 042	441 223 133	3.7 % 3.7 % 1.1 %
Tvrdošín	8 870 5 951	175 87 46	2.9 % 3.1 % 0.8 %
Námestovo	7 618 5 156	118 68 23	2.3 % 2.7 % 0.4 %
Trstená	7 124 4 953	161 85 30	3.3 % 3.5 % 0.6 %

Villages with over 2000 inhabitants are Zákamenné (5598), Rabča (5213), Oravská Polhora (3986), Nižná (3948), Novoť (3742), Oravská Lesná (3416), Hruštín (3155), Mútne (3123), Oravské Veselé (3001), Liesek (2988), Zázrivá (2539), Klin (2504), Lokca (2411), Zubrohlava (2409), Sihelné (2191), Rabčice (2061).

villages by number of inhabitants
total	up to 300	300 to 500	500 to 1000	1000 to 1500	over 1500
59	2	4	18	12	23

Unemployment

rok	2012	2014	2016	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024
number of unemployed	9035	9015	5689	3487	3137	4383	4284	3445	3228	3071
number of long-term unemployed	3328	4198	2129	982	687	835	1358	1068	818	813
number of people receiving social benefits	4650	4221	1808	882	734	760	708	908	859	801
number of activational workers	421	396	186	63.8	30.8	36.3	47.2	52.8	13.2	0
unemployment rate	9.4	9.4	5.9	3.7	3.3	4.6	4.6	3.7	3.5	3.3
long-term unemployment rate	3.5	4.4	2.2	1.0	0.7	0.9	1.5	1.2	0.9	0.9
vacancies	72	146	747	1277	1720	1249	1456	1714	1031	1624

Demographics

	2012	2014	2016	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024
number of inhabitants	135 757	136 489	137 279	138 101	138 499	138 875	138 302	138 531	138 531	138 531
assignation tax	34 347 641	35 610 602	43 558 028	52 518 559	59 547 491	61 663 016	59 147 845	65 742 625	73 886 580	74 123 504
demographic dependency	15.3	16.4	17.9	19.4	20.3	21.2	21.9	22.7	22.8
number of employed foreigners	60.7	70.7	140	290	494	573	638	1141	1668	1690

Number of unemployed

rok	2012	2014	2016	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024
less than 24 years	2642	2022	1036	568	511	702	629	483	477	432
25 to 39 years	3446	3051	1958	1205	1114	1527	1416	1169	1064	1057
40 to 54 years	3090	2926	1884	1132	989	1424	1448	1144	1070	1062
55 years and more	985	1016	812	581	523	730	790	648	618	519

Other regions

Orava number of inhabitants, unemployed for longer than 4 years, low educated unemployed

Suggested citation: Michal Páleník: Regions of Slovakia - Orava, IZ Bratislava, retrieved from: https://www.iz.sk/en/projects/regions-of-slovakia/kysuce-a-orava/orava

https://www.iz.sk/en/projects/regions-of-slovakia/kysuce-a-orava/orava

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