Cities with lowest unemployment in Bulgaria

Sofia, Bulgaria has the lowest unemployment rate of the 30 cities compared: 4.6 % (NSI Infostat 2016 — activity, employment and unemployment rates by municipality, 2021-09-07).

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Bulgaria municipalities ranked by their own published total unemployment rate, without regional substitutes.

Items compared: 30
Countries represented: 1
Last checked: 2026-07-27

Source-backed answers

Compare each answer with its unit and checked date; the complete source ledger is below.

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Original rank	City or place			Source and scope
1	Sofia, Bulgaria	4.6 %	2026-07-27	Source Scope: city · Period: 2021-09-07
2	Plovdiv, Bulgaria	6.3 %	2026-07-27	Source Scope: city · Period: 2021-09-07
3	Veliko Tŭrnovo, Bulgaria	6.6 %	2026-07-27	Source Scope: city · Period: 2021-09-07
4	Varna, Bulgaria	6.7 %	2026-07-27	Source Scope: city · Period: 2021-09-07
5	Stara Zagora, Bulgaria	7.1 %	2026-07-27	Source Scope: city · Period: 2021-09-07
6	Burgas, Bulgaria	7.2 %	2026-07-27	Source Scope: city · Period: 2021-09-07
7	Lovech, Bulgaria	7.2 %	2026-07-27	Source Scope: city · Period: 2021-09-07
8	Ruse, Bulgaria	7.2 %	2026-07-27	Source Scope: city · Period: 2021-09-07
9	Nesebar, Bulgaria	7.8 %	2026-07-27	Source Scope: city · Period: 2021-09-07
10	Pleven, Bulgaria	7.9 %	2026-07-27	Source Scope: city · Period: 2021-09-07
11	Shumen, Bulgaria	8.2 %	2026-07-27	Source Scope: city · Period: 2021-09-07
12	Yambol, Bulgaria	8.2 %	2026-07-27	Source Scope: city · Period: 2021-09-07
13	Kyustendil, Bulgaria	8.4 %	2026-07-27	Source Scope: city · Period: 2021-09-07
14	Smolyan, Bulgaria	8.7 %	2026-07-27	Source Scope: city · Period: 2021-09-07
15	Haskovo, Bulgaria	9 %	2026-07-27	Source Scope: city · Period: 2021-09-07
16	Pernik, Bulgaria	9 %	2026-07-27	Source Scope: city · Period: 2021-09-07
17	Kazanlak, Bulgaria	9.1 %	2026-07-27	Source Scope: city · Period: 2021-09-07
18	Sandanski, Bulgaria	9.3 %	2026-07-27	Source Scope: city · Period: 2021-09-07
19	Vratsa, Bulgaria	9.4 %	2026-07-27	Source Scope: city · Period: 2021-09-07
20	Kardzhali, Bulgaria	9.6 %	2026-07-27	Source Scope: city · Period: 2021-09-07
21	Dupnitsa, Bulgaria	9.7 %	2026-07-27	Source Scope: city · Period: 2021-09-07
22	Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria	10 %	2026-07-27	Source Scope: city · Period: 2021-09-07
23	Asenovgrad, Bulgaria	10.1 %	2026-07-27	Source Scope: city · Period: 2021-09-07
24	Gorna Oryahovitsa, Bulgaria	10.1 %	2026-07-27	Source Scope: city · Period: 2021-09-07
25	Svishtov, Bulgaria	10.1 %	2026-07-27	Source Scope: city · Period: 2021-09-07
26	Montana, Bulgaria	10.2 %	2026-07-27	Source Scope: city · Period: 2021-09-07
27	Pazardzhik, Bulgaria	10.4 %	2026-07-27	Source Scope: city · Period: 2021-09-07
28	Silistra, Bulgaria	10.5 %	2026-07-27	Source Scope: city · Period: 2021-09-07
29	Sliven, Bulgaria	12.5 %	2026-07-27	Source Scope: city · Period: 2021-09-07
30	Pomorie, Bulgaria	12.9 %	2026-07-27	Source Scope: city · Period: 2021-09-07

What the numbers say

Sofia, Bulgaria leads at 4.6 %.
Pomorie, Bulgaria sits at the other end with 12.9 %.
The middle of this ranking is 9 %, across 30 places that publish the metric.
The spread between first and last is 8.3 %.

Quick answer

What does Cities with lowest unemployment in Bulgaria show?

Sofia, Bulgaria has the lowest unemployment rate of the 30 cities compared: 4.6 % (NSI Infostat 2016 — activity, employment and unemployment rates by municipality, 2021-09-07).

How this list is built

Every row is a published unemployment rate observation measured in %, ranked lowest first. The values were observed in 2021. A place appears only when it publishes this exact metric, so an absent place means missing data rather than a low value. Only published cities with at least 20,000 residents and city-level observations qualify.

Compare the displayed value, unit, source date and geographic grain together.
A city label does not change a regional observation into a city measurement.

Rows: 30 places
Geographic grain: city
Observation period: 2021-09-07
Last checked: 2026-07-27
With an official source link: 30 of 30

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ImmigrationDB. (2026, September 29). Cities with lowest unemployment in Bulgaria [ImmigrationDB compilation; version cf6d4d55a97008ed10e5c7f5e5cbd92e]. ImmigrationDB. https://immigrationdb.com/reports/bulgaria-cities-with-lowest-unemployment/ Retrieved 2026-09-29. Compilation license: CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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@misc{immigrationdb_immigrationdb_cities-with-lowest-unemployment-in-bulgaria_ff0381710ebc,
  author = {ImmigrationDB},
  title = {Cities with lowest unemployment in Bulgaria},
  publisher = {ImmigrationDB},
  year = {2026},
  date = {2026-09-29},
  version = {cf6d4d55a97008ed10e5c7f5e5cbd92e},
  url = {https://immigrationdb.com/reports/bulgaria-cities-with-lowest-unemployment/},
  note = {Retrieved 2026-09-29. ImmigrationDB compilation. Compilation license: CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/},
}

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Sources

NSI Infostat 2016 — activity, employment and unemployment rates by municipalityNational Statistical Institute of Bulgaria · Checked 2026-07-27