Zagorje ob Savi municipality is a part of the Zasavje development region. It extends on 147 km2. According to the area the Zagorje ob Savi municipality ranks 43rd place among all the Slovenian municipalities.
 
Statistical data available reveal the following image of the municipality Zagorje ob Savi:

• In the year 2024, the municipality had about 16.442 inhabitants (8.247 men and 8.195 women). On a square kilometre of the municipality area lived an average of 112 inhabitants. So the population density in the municipality is higher than in the whole Slovenia (105 inhabitants per km2).
• In the year 2023 the number of live births was lower than the number of deaths. Natural increase per 1000 inhabitants ws in the municipality negative. -0,9 (in Slovenia -2,1). In the year 2023 the number of those who have moved out of the municipality, was lower than the number of people who have moved into the municipality. Net migration per 1.000 inhabitants in the municipality was pozitive, amounted to 4,2. The sum of natural increase and net migration per 1.000 inhabitants in the municipality was pozitive, 3,3 (in Slovenia 3,3).
• In the year 2023 the average age of residents was 44,5 years, higher than the average age of people in Slovenia (44,1 years).
• The data for the year 2023 show that among the municipality residents the number of elderly - as in the majority of Slovenian municipalities – was higher than the number of young people: per 100 people aged 0 to 14 years lived 150 people, aged 65 or more. This ratio shows that the value of the municipalities aging index is higher than the value of the Slovenian aging index (which was 145). It also shows that the average age of municipality inhabitants rises, on average, faster than in Slovenia. Data by gender show that the value of the aging index for women in all Slovenian municipalities is higher than the value of the aging index for men. In the municipality is among women less women which were aged 65 years or more, than women who were aged less than 15 years; among men the picture was exactly the same.
• The data for the year 2023 show that in the municipality 5 kindergartens are operating and are attended by 637 children. Of all the children, aged 1 – 5 years, in the municipality, 85 % of them attend kindergarten, which is more than in all Slovenian kindergartens together (83 %). The local elementary schools in the school year 2023/2024 educated about 1.550 pupils. Various secondary schools were attended by about 640 pupils. Among 1.000 inhabitants of the municipality there were on average 36 students and 7 graduates; in Slovenia there were among 1.000 inhabitants on average 38 students and 8 graduates.
• The data for the year 2023 show that among people aged 15 to 64 years (ie. Working age population) approximately 71% are employed or self-employed (ie. Employment), which is above than the Slovenian average (69%).
• The data for the year 2023 show that average monthly salary (gross earnings) per person, employed by legal persons, were in the municipality about 12 % lower than the annual average monthly salary (gross earnings) in Slovenia, in net earnings about 10 %.
• The data for the year 2023 show that every second person in the municipality had a car (565 cars per 1000 inhabitants); the cars were on average 11 years old.
• During the year 2023 the municipality collected 314 kg of municipal waste per capita, which is 64 kg less than the Slovenian average.

Source: http://www.stat.si/