City profile: Zamość
Overview of Zamość
Snapshot of key indicators for Zamość in the most recent year available.
Population
60,148
people · 2021
Avg. gross salary
7.8 K PLN
2024
Unemployment rate
8.8%
% · 2025
Businesses per 10k
1,429
entities / 10k · 2025
Population density
1,874.2
ppl / km² · 2025
Apartment price / m²
6.7 K PLN / m²
2024
About - Zamość
Zamość, with about 60,000 residents in Lublin Voivodeship, is a Renaissance fortress city founded by Chancellor Jan Zamoyski, a UNESCO World Heritage site — the "Padua of the North" of eastern Poland. Strengths: a very dense cycling network of 198.5 km per 100 km² (98th percentile), low property crime (7.8/1,000, 97th percentile) and low overall crime of 18.49/1,000 (91st percentile), a healthy business balance (275 deregistered entities, 92nd percentile), 26.8 bed places per 1,000 inhabitants (92nd percentile) — a resort-grade tourism base — and strong wage growth of 17.21% YoY (91st percentile). 1,161 tourists per 1,000 visit the Renaissance old town. Weaknesses: the HIGHEST violent crime among powiat-status cities (0.79/1,000, 0 percentile), low housing construction (1.6 dwellings per 1,000, 5th percentile), very low forest cover of 1.7% (6th percentile), a low number of newly registered businesses (382, 9th percentile) and high unemployment of 8.8% (11th percentile). Zamość offers exceptional UNESCO heritage and developed tourism-cycling infrastructure, but needs personal-safety improvements and economic activation.
Air quality today
Air quality today
The result is based on the reading from 1 monitoring station in Zamość.
6.2 µg/m³
10.3 µg/m³
05/21/2026, 09:25 PM
Demographics of Zamość
Gender composition and demographic load on the working-age population of Zamość based on the latest GUS data.
Gender split in Zamość
- Men28,083 · 46.7%
- Women32,065 · 53.3%
Dependency ratios in Zamość
Non-working-age dependency ratio
ppl / 100 working-age · 2025
Post- per working-age
ppl / 100 working-age · 2025
Old-age dependency ratio
% · 2025
Population change per 1k residents
ppl / 1k · 2025
Vital events in Zamość
Births, deaths, marriages and natural increase in Zamość based on GUS data.
Total deaths
624
people · 2025
Marriages
171
marriages · 2025
Labour market in Zamość
Salaries in Zamość compared with the voivodeship and national averages, alongside broader employment signals.
Salary benchmark - Zamość
Voivodeship and Poland baselines derived from BDL ratios (Zamość vs. voivodeship / Poland).
Registered unemployment in Zamość
8.8%
% · 2025
Salary growth YoY
17.21%
% · 2024
Job offers at year-end in Zamość
30
offers · 2025
Employed per 1k residents
292
ppl / 1k · 2021
Business activity in Zamość
REGON registrations, deregistrations and net balance in Zamość.
Registrations vs deregistrations - Zamość
New businesses
382
entities · 2025
Deregistered
275
entities · 2025
REGON entities per 10k residents
1,429
entities / 10k · 2025
REGON entities per 1k working-age
260.9
entities / 1k working-age · 2025
Sole props / working-age
19.5%
% · 2025
Foreign-capital companies in Zamość
0
entities · 2025
Real estate in Zamość
Apartment prices, affordability and construction activity in Zamość.
Apartment price / m² in Zamość
6.7 K PLN / m²
2024
Housing affordability in Zamość
0.85
months of salary / m² · 2024
Dwellings completed / 1k residents
1.6
dwellings / 1k people · 2025
Months of gross salary required per 1 m² of apartment in Zamość.
Education in Zamość
Higher-education students, graduates and preschool-age children in Zamość based on GUS BDL data.
Higher-ed students
1,338
people · 2024
Higher-ed graduates
372
people · 2024
Preschool-age children
821
people · 2025
Students by gender
- Women889
- Men449
Transport & infrastructure in Zamość
Registered vehicles, public roads and road infrastructure in Zamość based on GUS BDL data.
Passenger cars
30,734
vehicles · 2024
Cars / 1k residents: 511
Environment and quality of life in Zamość
Air quality, green areas and public-space quality in Zamość.
Green areas per capita
56.1
m² / person · 2024
Municipal green areas per capita
27
m² / person · 2024
Parks & squares per capita
39
m² / person · 2024
Green-areas share of total area
10.63%
% · 2024
Air quality
· Monitoring stations: 1Particulate matter
PM2.5 now
6.2 µg/m³
Fine particles that can penetrate deep into the lungs.
PM2.5 24h avg
10.21 µg/m³
PM2.5 30d avg
13.05 µg/m³
PM10 now
10.3 µg/m³
Larger airborne particles - dust, traffic and heating.
PM10 24h avg
19.28 µg/m³
PM10 30d avg
20.49 µg/m³
High PM10 days (30d)
0
Maximum number of days with PM10 above 50 µg/m³ at a single station.
Traffic-related pollution
NO₂ now
11.4 µg/m³
Pollution most often linked to road traffic.
NO₂ 24h avg
8.54 µg/m³
NO₂ 30d avg
8.73 µg/m³
Zamość in numbers over time
Multi-year trajectory of the key indicators of Zamość benchmarked against the voivodeship.
Average gross salary in Zamość
Registered unemployment rate in Zamość
REGON entities per 10k inhabitants - Zamość
Population of Zamość
Apartment price per m² in Zamość
All indicators - Zamość
Population of Zamość
people · year 2021
60,148
Number of men in Zamość
people · year 2021
28,083
Number of women in Zamość
people · year 2021
32,065
Population density
ppl / km² · year 2025
1,874.2
Population change per 1k residents
ppl / 1k · year 2025
-11.7
Urban-area population density
ppl / km² · year 2014
4,352
Non-working-age dependency ratio
ppl / 100 working-age · year 2025
82.5
Post- per working-age
ppl / 100 working-age · year 2025
53.8
Post- per pre-working-age
ppl / 100 pre-working-age · year 2025
187.5
Old-age dependency ratio
% · year 2025
41.3%
Live births per 1k residents
per 1k people · year 2025
4.65
Deaths per 1k residents
per 1k people · year 2025
10.91
Natural increase per 1k residents
per 1k people · year 2025
-6.26
Total deaths in Zamość
people · year 2025
624
Marriages registered in Zamość
marriages · year 2025
171
Avg. gross salary in Zamość
year 2024
7.8 K PLN
Registered unemployment in Zamość
% · year 2025
8.8%
Employed per 1k residents
ppl / 1k · year 2021
292
Employed per 1k working-age
ppl / 1k working-age · year 2021
511.8
Unemployed / working-age
% · year 2025
3%
Unemployed women / working-age women
% · year 2025
3%
Unemployed men / working-age men
% · year 2025
3.1%
Job offers at year-end in Zamość
offers · year 2025
30
Job offers during the year in Zamość
offers · year 2025
1,759
Work accidents in Zamość
accidents · year 2024
168
Accidents per 1k employed
ppl / 1k employed · year 2024
5.29
Salary growth YoY
% · year 2024
17.21%
Salary vs voivodeship
% · year 2024
100.74%
Salary vs Poland
% · year 2024
90.71%
REGON entities per 10k residents
entities / 10k · year 2025
1,429
Newly registered businesses in Zamość
entities · year 2025
382
Deregistered businesses in Zamość
entities · year 2025
275
REGON entities in Zamość
entities · year 2025
382
REGON entities per 1k residents
entities / 1k · year 2025
143
REGON entities per 1k working-age
entities / 1k working-age · year 2025
260.9
Foreign-capital companies in Zamość
entities · year 2025
0
Sole props / working-age
% · year 2025
19.5%
Agri-food sector entities in Zamość
entities · year 2025
57
Business net change in Zamość
entities · year 2025
107
Business net-change rate
% · year 2025
38.91%
Enterprise investment outlays in Zamość
year 2024
274.5 M PLN
Higher-education students in Zamość
people · year 2024
1,338
Female higher-ed students in Zamość
people · year 2024
889
Male higher-ed students in Zamość
people · year 2024
449
Higher-education graduates in Zamość
people · year 2024
372
Preschool-age children in Zamość
people · year 2025
821
Registered passenger cars in Zamość
vehicles · year 2024
30,734
Apartment price / m² in Zamość
year 2024
6.7 K PLN / m²
Dwellings completed / 1k residents
dwellings / 1k people · year 2025
1.6
Dwellings completed / 10k residents
dwellings / 10k people · year 2025
15.6
Housing affordability in Zamość
months of salary / m² · year 2024
0.85
New office buildings / 1k residents
buildings / 1k people · year 2025
0.02
New retail-service buildings / 1k
buildings / 1k people · year 2025
0.09
Local-govt investment-spend share
% · year 2024
12.4%
Green areas per capita
m² / person · year 2024
56.1
Municipal green areas per capita
m² / person · year 2024
27
Parks & squares per capita
m² / person · year 2024
39
Green-areas share of total area
% · year 2024
10.63%
Parks & squares share of total area
% · year 2024
7.4%
Forestation share (forest area / total area)
% · year 2025
1.7%
Forest area, total
ha · year 2025
50.65
Forest area per capita
ar / person · year 2025
0.1
Afforestation, total area
ha · year 2025
0