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Region Mining cities

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Towns

Region Mining cities contains cities Banská Štiavnica, Kremnica, Nová Baňa, Žarnovica, Žiar nad Hronom and 63 villages. Statistics on city level on unemployment are for the period of 2024-10-01, 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
Žiar nad Hronom	16 879 11 017	470 267 155	4.3 % 4.9 % 1.4 %
Banská Štiavnica	9 339 6 191	317 155 138	5.1 % 5.1 % 2.2 %
Nová Baňa	6 858 4 444	214 124 74	4.8 % 5.6 % 1.7 %
Žarnovica	5 669 3 731	215 112 92	5.8 % 5.9 % 2.5 %
Kremnica	4 755 2 986	112 59 36	3.8 % 4 % 1.2 %

Villages with over 2000 inhabitants are Hliník nad Hronom (2703), Hodruša-Hámre (2043).

villages by number of inhabitants
total	up to 300	300 to 500	500 to 1000	1000 to 1500	over 1500
63	15	13	22	10	3

Unemployment

rok	2012	2014	2016	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024
number of unemployed	8034	7630	5725	3101	2915	3655	3547	3078	2956	2719
number of long-term unemployed	4050	4256	2823	1258	1014	1117	1444	1287	1128	1099
number of people receiving social benefits	6115	5571	3382	2121	1753	1669	1507	1624	1552	1434
number of activational workers	725	762	504	232	213	216	188	167	52.3	107
unemployment rate	12.2	11.8	9.1	5.1	4.8	6.1	6.3	5.5	5.4	5
long-term unemployment rate	6.2	6.6	4.5	2.1	1.7	1.9	2.6	2.3	2.1	2.0
vacancies	71.7	78.8	490	963	765	666	878	808	616	1022

Demographics

	2012	2014	2016	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024
number of inhabitants	91 478	90 835	89 923	89 287	88 913	88 534	84 966	84 375	83 813	83 813
assignation tax	20 628 436	21 121 141	25 018 214	30 319 896	34 070 720	35 342 214	33 807 694	37 257 485	40 675 156	40 789 881
demographic dependency	21.7	23.6	25.6	28.0	29.4	30.6	31.6	32.8	32.5
number of employed foreigners	177	352	520	639	715	540	400	486	490	526

Number of unemployed

rok	2012	2014	2016	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024
less than 24 years	1655	1241	756	330	346	434	394	345	329	330
25 to 39 years	3325	2730	1974	964	897	1186	1096	943	884	822
40 to 54 years	3043	2561	2007	1129	1004	1220	1221	1052	1018	949
55 years and more	1123	1098	988	677	668	815	836	739	724	617

Other regions

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

Suggested citation: Michal Páleník: Regions of Slovakia - Region Mining cities, IZ Bratislava, retrieved from: https://www.iz.sk/en/projects/regions-of-slovakia/mining-cities

https://www.iz.sk/en/projects/regions-of-slovakia/mining-cities

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