Municipality Straža

Straža

Source: Wikipedija (http://sl.wikipedia.org, 22. 6. 2010), author SI-Ziga

Municipality Straža, which is part of the Jugovzhodna Slovenija statistical region, measures 29 km2; this ranks it 184th among Slovene municipalities.

Statistical data for 2022 reveal the following:

In the middle of 2022 about 3,900 people (about 2,010 men and 1,890 women) were living in the municipality, which ranks Straža 130th among Slovene municipalities. The population density was 136 people per square kilometre, which was higher than the national average of 104 people per square kilometre.

The number of live births was lower than the number of deaths, which means that natural increase per 1,000 population in the municipality was negative. It was –0.3 (in Slovenia –2.3). The number of people who moved from the municipality was lower than the number of people who moved into the municipality, so net migration per 1,000 population in the municipality was positive. It was 0.5. The sum of natural increase and net migration per 1,000 population in the municipality was positive. It was 0.3 (in Slovenia 4.6).

The mean age of people in Straža was 43.4 years, which was lower than the national average (43.9).

As in most Slovene municipalities, in Straža the number of old people was higher than the number of young people: there were 133 people, aged 65 or more, per 100 people aged 0–14. This ratio shows that the value of the ageing index was lower than the national average of 142. It also shows that the mean age of people in Straža is growing more slowly than in Slovenia as a whole. Data by sex show that the ageing index for women was in all municipalities except in four (Črna na Koroškem, Dobrovnik/Dobronak, Jezersko in Mislinja) higher than the ageing index for men. In Straža – as in most Slovene municipalities – more women were 65+ years old than 14 or less; for men the situation was the same.

Straža had 1 kindergarten, which was attended by 185 children. Of all children in the municipality aged 1–5, 88% were included in kindergartens, which was more than the national average of 82%. In the school year 2022/23 elementary school in Straža was attended by about 390 pupils, while various upper secondary schools were attended by about 140 pupils. There were 45 students and 9 graduates per 1,000 people in the municipality; in Slovenia the averages were 38 per 1,000 and 8 per 1,000, respectively.

Among people aged 15–64 (i.e. working age population) about 73% were persons in employment (i.e. persons in paid employment or self–employed persons), which is more than the national average (69%).

In Straža, average monthly gross earnings per person employed by legal persons were about 21% lower than the annual average of monthly earnings for Slovenia; net earnings were about 19% lower.

Among 1,000 inhabitants in the municipality, 622 had a passenger car. The car was on average 11 years old.

In 2022, 284 kg of municipal waste per person was collected in Straža, which is 77 kg less than on average in Slovenia.

Population pyramid for 2022

The population pyramid is a graphical illustration of the age and sex structure of the population. The length of an individual bar in the chart represents the share of population in an individual age group. If you position the cursor on a single line, the share is displayed. The share of the male population is shown on the left side and of the female population on the right side of the pyramid.

DATA FOR 2022 MUNICIPALITY SLOVENIA
Surface area (sq. km) - 1 January 29 20,271
Population - Total - 1 July 3,898 2,108,732
Population density - 1 July 136 104
Mean age (years) - 1 July 43.4 43.9
Total increase per 1,000 population 0.3 4.6
Number of persons in paid employment (by work place) 766 824,134
Employment rate (%) 73.2 68.6
Average monthly net earnings per person (EUR) 1,072.39 1,318.64
Turnover of enterprises (1,000 EUR) 123,801 165,285,133
Average age of passenger cars - 31 December 10.6 10.9

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