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Region lower Vah river

consists of counties:

Towns

Region lower Vah river contains cities Galanta, Hlohovec, Leopoldov, Piešťany, Sereď, Sládkovičovo, Trnava, Vrbové and 124 villages. Statistics on city level on unemployment are for the period of 2024-12-01, for population are fore yar 2023.

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
Trnava	62 955 40 427	1 117 613 131	2.8 % 3 % 0.3 %
Piešťany	26 668 16 408	373 197 52	2.3 % 2.4 % 0.3 %
Hlohovec	19 774 12 779	290 170 41	2.3 % 2.7 % 0.3 %
Sereď	15 166 10 138	272 160 33	2.7 % 3.2 % 0.3 %
Galanta	15 339 10 230	258 146 33	2.5 % 2.8 % 0.3 %
Vrbové	5 597 3 772	95 51 8	2.5 % 2.7 % 0.2 %
Sládkovičovo	5 411 3 661	75 38 10	2 % 2.1 % 0.3 %
Leopoldov	3 907 2 565	55 32 7	2.1 % 2.5 % 0.3 %

Villages with over 2000 inhabitants are Veľké Úľany (4780), Cífer (4610), Šoporňa (4113), Jelka (4026), Trstice (3876), Špačince (3266), Pata (3241), Smolenice (3240), Horné Saliby (3190), Veľké Kostoľany (2799), Zeleneč (2637), Drahovce (2608), Veľká Mača (2602), Brestovany (2594), Chtelnica (2537), Biely Kostol (2477), Moravany nad Váhom (2456), Dolná Krupá (2453), Zavar (2396), Bučany (2390), Jaslovské Bohunice (2360), Boleráz (2349), Madunice (2282), Suchá nad Parnou (2275), Matúškovo (2274), Šúrovce (2233), Hrnčiarovce nad Parnou (2232), Majcichov (2213), Banka (2138), Váhovce (2072), Dvorníky (2029), Dolné Saliby (2012).

villages by number of inhabitants
total	up to 300	300 to 500	500 to 1000	1000 to 1500	over 1500
124	2	18	33	22	49

Unemployment

rok	2012	2014	2016	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024
number of unemployed	14 331	13 218	8760	4692	4760	7350	7730	6235	5740	5544
number of long-term unemployed	4297	4490	2248	603	466	765	1740	1358	994	783
number of people receiving social benefits	9513	7813	4632	2785	2276	2175	2115	2618	2588	2154
number of activational workers	135	142	73.1	10.4	4.5	3.3	3.2	3	0.4	0.5
unemployment rate	6	5.6	3.8	2	2.1	3.3	3.5	2.8	2.6	2.5
long-term unemployment rate	1.8	1.9	1.0	0.3	0.2	0.3	0.8	0.6	0.5	0.4
vacancies	512	893	4302	13 272	10 453	7363	7806	9584	8913	9807

Demographics

	2012	2014	2016	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024
number of inhabitants	331 716	332 519	333 377	334 096	334 595	334 690	333 398	333 197	333 193	333 193
assignation tax	69 178 478	72 810 372	88 367 340	108 964 831	123 456 974	128 272 108	123 200 087	136 397 218	153 364 302	153 814 567
demographic dependency	20.9	22.4	24.4	26.5	27.7	28.9	29.5	30.4	33.1
number of employed foreigners	1605	1701	4718	12 078	11 603	11 539	8341	10 158	11 971	12 272

Number of unemployed

rok	2012	2014	2016	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024
less than 24 years	3436	2522	1324	586	570	940	902	735	699	683
25 to 39 years	5933	4752	3246	1838	1859	2810	2733	2233	1986	2020
40 to 54 years	4995	4063	2754	1454	1532	2411	2660	2120	2007	1958
55 years and more	1976	1881	1437	814	799	1188	1435	1147	1049	884

Other regions

lower Vah river number of inhabitants, unemployed for longer than 4 years, low educated unemployed

Suggested citation: Michal Páleník: Regions of Slovakia - Region lower Vah river, IZ Bratislava, retrieved from: https://www.iz.sk/en/projects/regions-of-slovakia/lower-vah-river

https://www.iz.sk/en/projects/regions-of-slovakia/lower-vah-river

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