Sankt Veit an der Glan district

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Basic data
state	Carinthia
NUTS III region	AT-213
Administrative headquarters	Sankt Veit an der Glan
surface	1494 km²
Residents	54,186 (January 1, 2020)
Population density	36 inhabitants / km²
License Plate	SV
website	BH St.Veit an der Glan
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The district of Sankt Veit an der Glan is a political district in the Austrian state of Carinthia .

Administrative division

The district covers 1,493.68 km² and is divided into 20 municipalities , including four cities and nine market communities . The population figures are from January 1st, 2020.

Municipalities in the district of Sankt Veit an der Glan

local community	Slovenian	Ew	km²	Ew / km²	Judicial district	Type	photo	Metadata
Althofen	Stari dvor	4,715	12.27	384	St. Veit an der Glan	urban community	No	According to code: 20501
Brueckl	Mostič	2,739	46.68	59	St. Veit an der Glan	market community	No	Acc. To code: 20502
German handles		897	71.5	13	St. Veit an der Glan	local community	No	According to code: 20503
Eberstein	Svinec	1,229	65.17	19th	St. Veit an der Glan	market community	No	According to code: 20504
Frauenstein		3,554	93.49	38	St. Veit an der Glan	local community	No	According to code: 20534
Friesach	Breže	4,948	120.84	41	St. Veit an der Glan	urban community	No	According to code: 20505
Glödnitz		809	74.7	11	St. Veit an der Glan	local community	No	According to code: 20506
Cucumber	Krka	1,202	39.65	30th	St. Veit an der Glan	market community	No	According to code: 20508
Guttaring	Kotarče	1,485	54.92	27	St. Veit an der Glan	market community	No	Acc. To code: 20509
Huettenberg		1,366	134.48	10	St. Veit an der Glan	market community	No	According to code: 20511
Kappel am Krappfeld		1.939	49.63	39	St. Veit an der Glan	local community	No	According to code: 20512
Little Saint Paul	Mali Šentpavel	1,718	68.55	25th	St. Veit an der Glan	market community	No	According to code: 20513
Liebenfels		3,318	58.89	56	St. Veit an der Glan	market community	No	According to code: 20515
Metnitz		1.953	223.26	8.7	St. Veit an der Glan	market community	No	According to code: 20518
Micheldorf		1,000	17.02	59	St. Veit an der Glan	local community	No	According to code: 20519
Mölbling		1,309	48.77	27	St. Veit an der Glan	local community	No	Acc. To code: 20520
Sankt Georgen am Längsee		3,576	69.84	51	St. Veit an der Glan	local community	No	According to code: 20523
Sankt Veit an der Glan	Šentvid ob Glini	12,386	50.79	244	St. Veit an der Glan	urban community	No	According to code: 20527
Strasbourg		2.011	97.43	21st	St. Veit an der Glan	urban community	No	According to code: 20530
Weitensfeld in the Gurktal		2,032	95.8	21st	St. Veit an der Glan	market community	No	According to code: 20531

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Population development

St. Veit from Lorenziberg

Friesach to the north with Geyersberg

Metnitztal

The district of Sankt Veit an der Glan has 54,186 inhabitants January 1, 2020. The population density is lower than the national average, the main settlement areas are the Metnitz , Glan and Gurktal valleys . The work center is the district capital St. Veit. St. Veit and the communities of Althofen and Friesach are well connected to Klagenfurt in the south and the Murtal in the north via the main traffic axis Südbahn / Klagenfurt expressway S37 . Over 60% of all jobs in the district are in these three locations. The upper Gurktal, the Metnitz - and the Görtschitztal , however, are very peripheral.

The negative population development of the last few decades is due to the negative balance of migration , the birth balance was positive until 2001. From 1991 to 2001 there were 734 more births than deaths. The trends changed between 2013 and 2017: the birth balance turned negative (−721), the migration balance slightly positive (+60).

Income, unemployment

The average income in the Sankt Veit district is just below the average for Carinthia, but well below that of Austria. In contrast, the unemployment rate is below that of Carinthia and, since 2015, just below that of Austria. It is striking that youth unemployment is very high. In contrast, the number of long-term unemployed is far below the average for Carinthia and Austria.

Average income in euros

Unemployment rate in percent

Share of long-term unemployed in percent

Share of young unemployed in percent

Commute

The Sankt Veit district has a high proportion of out-commuters who work in the central Carinthian area with the cities of Klagenfurt and Villach . In 2014 this was 35% of those in employment, while around 20% commuted from other districts.

Job vacancies and apprenticeship market

The number of vacancies increased by almost a quarter in 2016 compared to 2015.

Concentrating on a few professions is problematic in apprenticeship training: a third of the female apprentices worked in the three professions of retail , hairdresser and office clerk , and half of the male apprentices were employed in the three professions of metal technology , electrical engineering and automotive technology .

education

The trend towards higher education is also evident in the Sankt Veit district:

Sankt Veit (figures in%)

Carinthia

Austria

economy

The economic focus of the Sankt Veit district is industry , and to a lesser extent tourism . Around a third of the 16,000 employees in the district work in large companies. Electrical engineering and electronics are above average , but solar technology and metal processing also play an important role. Tourism is weaker than in other Carinthian districts, but the Längsee gives the municipality of St. Georgen an important boost.

Economic structure

The district has an above-average production sector with a technological focus. In the primary sector , the country - and forestry , the workers are more concerned than anything in Carinthia's average 1.7%.

St. Vitus

Carinthia

Agriculture and Forestry

With 1,540 farms, the Sankt Veit district has the third largest number of main farms in Carinthia after Spittal / Drau (2,241) and Wolfsberg (1,671). The cattle population is 34,902 animals almost as high as in Spittal (37,217) and Wolfsberg (36,528). Together, these three districts hold around 60% of the cattle in Carinthia (as of 2017).

Sankt Veit has the largest logging of all Carinthian districts . In 2017, 500,332 solid cubic meters of wood were felled, over 96% of which was softwood .

Industry / manufacturing, manufacturing of goods

Treibacher Industrie AG

The companies with the most employees in the St. Veit district are (as of 2016):

Industrial company	Employee
Treibacher Industrie AG	660
Flextronics International GmbH	570
Springer Maschinenfabrik AG	230
Tilly Holzindustrie GmbH	180
Greenotec Solarindustrie GmbH	130
Hobas Pipes GmbH	100

Althofen, cure and rehabilitation center

Service operation	Employee
Rehabilitation center Althofen, Dkfm Eder Betriebs-GmbH	550
Brothers of Mercy General Public Hospital	430
A.Ö Hospital of the Teutonic Order Friesach GmbH	350

The district capital St. Veit an der Glan is the most important work center; over 60 percent of the district's jobs are here.

Number of businesses per municipality (as of 2016)

tourism

Wayside shrine with Längsee

Tourism plays a subordinate role in the St. Veit district as a whole. The community of Althofen has the majority of the overnight stays due to the spa and rehabilitation center, where over 500 employees look after 10,000 guests annually. In addition to the district capital St. Veit, only the communities Micheldorf and St. Georgen am Längsee have around 10,000 overnight stays per year.

Overnight stays in the tourism year 2017 (in thousands)

Infrastructure and traffic

Railway: The southern railway, which runs from north to south, connects the central area of the district well to Klagenfurt in the south and the Murtal in the north. From St. Veit there is also a railway line to the west via Feldkirchen to the railway junction in Villach.
Road: Coming from the north, the well-developed Friesacher Strasse B317 runs parallel to the southern runway to the district capital and continues as Klagenfurt expressway S37 to Klagenfurt.

Individual evidence

↑ Statistics Austria - Population at the beginning of 2002–2020 by municipalities (area status 01/01/2020)
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e AMS district profile 2016, job market profile St. Veit an der Glan. (PDF) Retrieved February 13, 2019 .
↑ ^a ^b ^c WIBIS, Carinthian Economic Development Fund - Feldkirchen district profile 2017. (PDF) Retrieved on February 13, 2019 .
↑ Statistics Austria, educational level of the population aged 25 to 64 by district, 2016. Accessed on February 13, 2019 .
^ Economic Association of Carinthia, St. Veit district. Retrieved February 13, 2019 .
^ Province of Carinthia, Agriculture Report 2017. Accessed on February 13, 2019 .
↑ Statistics Austria, Companies and Workplaces, Workplace Census 2016. Accessed on February 13, 2019 .
↑ Humanomed center Althofen, history. Retrieved February 13, 2019 .
↑ Carinthia, S042 nights, 2017. (PDF) Retrieved on 13 February 2019 .

Web links

Commons : District Sankt Veit an der Glan - Collection of images, videos and audio files

46.7664 14.3563Coordinates: 46 ° 46 ' N , 14 ° 21' E

[1] Statistics Austria - Population at the beginning of 2002–2020 by municipalities (area status 01/01/2020)

[:18-2] AMS district profile 2016, job market profile St. Veit an der Glan. (PDF) Retrieved February 13, 2019 .

[:19-3] WIBIS, Carinthian Economic Development Fund - Feldkirchen district profile 2017. (PDF) Retrieved on February 13, 2019 .

[:110-4] Statistics Austria, educational level of the population aged 25 to 64 by district, 2016. Accessed on February 13, 2019 .

[:111-5] Economic Association of Carinthia, St. Veit district. Retrieved February 13, 2019 .

[:112-6] Province of Carinthia, Agriculture Report 2017. Accessed on February 13, 2019 .

[:113-7] Statistics Austria, Companies and Workplaces, Workplace Census 2016. Accessed on February 13, 2019 .

[:114-8] Humanomed center Althofen, history. Retrieved February 13, 2019 .

[:115-9] Carinthia, S042 nights, 2017. (PDF) Retrieved on 13 February 2019 .