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Region upper Hron river

consists of counties:

Towns

Region upper Hron river contains cities Banská Bystrica, Brezno, Detva, Hriňová, Sliač, Zvolen and 107 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 %
Brezno	19 577 12 401	566 330 193	4.6 % 5.3 % 1.6 %
Detva	13 416 8 688	433 239 138	5 % 5.6 % 1.6 %
Hriňová	6 867 4 453	250 132 78	5.6 % 6.1 % 1.8 %
Sliač	4 806 3 098	99 54 19	3.2 % 3.5 % 0.6 %

Villages with over 2000 inhabitants are Čierny Balog (4916), Podbrezová (3470), Valaská (3336), Slovenská Ľupča (3261), Polomka (2859), Zvolenská Slatina (2795), Očová (2451), Heľpa (2393), Pliešovce (2262), Badín (2152), Brusno (2122), Selce (2100), Závadka nad Hronom (2099), Pohorelá (2054).

villages by number of inhabitants
total	up to 300	300 to 500	500 to 1000	1000 to 1500	over 1500
107	23	19	26	18	21

Unemployment

rok	2012	2014	2016	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024	2025	2026
number of unemployed	19 348	17 837	14 593	8069	7215	9294	9506	8052	7374	6733	6678	7016
number of long-term unemployed	9196	8686	7171	3084	2340	2663	3838	3356	2820	2497	2125	2062
number of people receiving social benefits	14 805	13 892	9619	6199	5241	5138	4856	5340	5405	4875	4485	4402
number of activational workers	1414	1698	1186	619	406	443	421	389	100	192	188	89.5
unemployment rate	9.6	9.1	7.6	4.3	3.9	5.1	5.4	4.7	4.3	4	4	4.2
long-term unemployment rate	4.6	4.4	3.7	1.6	1.3	1.5	2.2	1.9	1.7	1.5	1.3	1.2
vacancies	198	291	2234	2619	2948	2782	2462	2049	1428	1893	2133	1959

Demographics

	2012	2014	2016	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024	2025	2026
number of inhabitants	276 709	275 630	274 571	273 538	272 637	271 964	264 233	262 961	261 636	260 270	258 717	258 717
assignation tax	64 656 891	65 603 458	79 417 092	96 516 280	109 432 235	112 803 768	107 840 952	119 356 557	132 255 645	132 705 948	109 264 152	116 158 619
demographic dependency	20.9	22.6	25.1	27.7	29.1	30.3	31.5	32.8	34.1	35.3	36.4
number of employed foreigners	254	380	588	760	1093	1266	1207	1665	1932	2202	2526	2856

number of inhabitants – upper Hron river

Number of unemployed

rok	2012	2014	2016	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024	2025	2026
less than 24 years	4168	3007	2039	884	803	1136	1074	870	842	762	799	787
25 to 39 years	8199	6219	5136	2663	2427	3173	3148	2628	2414	2260	2203	2221
40 to 54 years	7422	5901	4922	2834	2464	3133	3295	2835	2592	2397	2406	2641
55 years and more	2982	2710	2495	1688	1520	1852	1988	1719	1526	1314	1270	1373

Other regions

upper Hron river number of inhabitants, unemployed for longer than 4 years, low educated unemployed

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

https://www.iz.sk/en/projects/regions-of-slovakia/upper-hron-river

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