Ljubljana, Slovenia

What Ljubljana is made of: the communities whose institutions are here, the sectors its 3,748 businesses sit in, the franchises already on the ground, and the services a newcomer could start.

Business register for this city: © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL 1.0 — named shops, offices, trades and services, which undercounts businesses that are not mapped.

3,748 businesses on file · 122 trades · 26 sectors · · built from geonet.slovenia on 2026-10-27

Businesses3,748
100% carry coordinates
Specialised in12
trades above the national pattern
Places of worship0
Franchise brands26
already operating here

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The local economy

What the business base is made of, what it is specialised in against the national pattern, and what that mix implies. This is the part a development office would read first.

Composition, not health. geonet records what trades exist and where; it does not record formation, closure, employment or revenue, so none of those appear here. What makes this economics rather than a directory is the NAICS coding: it lets the local mix be read against the BLS survival curves and against the 323 industry groups this research has screened.

The two biggest markets here

Every industry group on this page links through to its NAICS page, and to the screened market report where this research has one — that is what the trait-to-NAICS coding buys.

Business density—
Breadth of the base2423
narrow — 40 industry groups, top three 62.2%
Survival the mix implies59%
at five years, against 51.4% for all private establishments
Coded to NAICS39.9%
of which 78.1% unambiguous

What this city is specialised in

Location quotient is this city's share of a trade divided by the same share across 26 metro tables worldwide. Above 1.25 is the conventional threshold for a local specialisation.

The base against the entry screen

Businesses by the entry signal of the industry group they sit in, from the /markets screen. A large "structure decides" share means most local trades are ones where being better than the incumbent does not by itself win. A trade is matched to the screened record at whatever level the research wrote it — the same code, a broader one, or a narrower one. Where a group holds several screened sub-markets the count is shown, because no single one of them speaks for the whole group.

Enter
13.4%
200 businesses
Caution
31.3%
468 businesses
Structure decides
55.3%
826 businesses
Not screened
0%
0 businesses

How to read the survival figure

Each sector's five-year establishment survival rate, weighted by how many of this city's businesses sit in that sector. It is a property of the MIX, not of these businesses — it says what survival this composition would imply at US private-sector rates, because no Canadian equivalent series exists.

Weighted over 100% of the coded base — public administration carries no curve. Source: Business Employment Dynamics — Table 7, Survival of private sector establishments by opening year, US Bureau of Labor Statistics.

And what it does not measure

A "mixed" trait is one that genuinely spans codes — "computers" covers systems design, repair and supply. The clear share is how much of this reading rests on unambiguous coding. Business density also reflects how completely the directory covers a place, not only how many businesses are in it — so it compares poorly between a city the register knows well and one it does not.

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Who lives here, and who the city is for

The census: the only figures on this page that count people rather than businesses, and the three cohort readings they make possible.

No census subdivision is mapped for si-ljubljana in local/census-map.json, so this page carries no census figures. The mapping is kept explicit because Canada has several places called London, Toronto and Kelowna, and attaching the wrong one would put another city's demographics on this page.

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People and languages

Who lives here and the languages business runs in: population and age from the statistics offices, and the share who can hold a conversation in English and other languages from the EU’s 2024 language survey. Each figure says whether it covers the city, the region or the whole country.

Population297,575
city 2024
Median age43
city 2024
Foreign-born or foreign citizens22.8%
2024
Employment rate79.9%
region 2025

Languages spoken

  • Official: Slovenian
  • The census here does not ask about language, so no shares are given.

Doing business in English (and other languages)

Special Eurobarometer 540: share of residents aged 15+ who can hold a conversation in English as a non-mother-tongue language (EU27 average 47%). Fieldwork Sept-Oct 2023, published May 2024.

Age: under 15 14% · 15–64 65.5% · 65 and over 20.4% (city, 2024) Eurostat · 130,575 households, 2.17 people each

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The communities the register shows

A community appears in the business register before it appears in prose — a national church, a society, a credit union, a newspaper. Those are counted as institutions, and they are what suggests residents. A restaurant serving a cuisine is counted separately as trade, because every city has those and they say nothing about who lives nearby. The ranking is by institutions.

CommunityInstitutions WorshipTrade Where it shows
Thai — — 6
Korean — — 4
Chinese — — 3
Spanish-speaking — — 1
Irish — — 1
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What the city is made of

Every business on file, grouped by the sector it trades in. This is the economic-development view: where the 3,748 businesses actually are, and the specific trades inside each sector.

SectorBusinesses ShareWhat is in it
Retail 773 20.6% supermarket (114) · bakery (84) · convenience (60) · pharmacy (59) · electronics (26) · books (25) · jewelry (22) · gifts (21)
Dining 476 12.7% restaurant (470) · deli (5) · food (1)
Business 263 7% association (22) · research (21) · religion (4) · staffing (3) · consulting (2) · foundation (1)
Travel 238 6.4% hotel (64) · museum (24) · bed and breakfast (14) · car rental (9) · laundry (8) · travel agent (3) · boat (2) · motel (1)
Entertainment 237 6.3% bar (205) · nightclub (10) · cinema (6) · casino (5) · music (4) · lottery (2) · zoo (2) · video game (1)
Beverage 233 6.2% coffee (221) · alcohol (7) · wine (3) · beverages (2)
Health 147 3.9% optician (29) · hospital (28) · doctor (14) · massage (9) · homeopathy (3)
Fashion 145 3.9% clothing (121) · shoes (24)
Beauty 140 3.7% barber (104) · beauty salon (23) · cosmetics (8) · tattoo (2) · piercing (1) · dental (1) · pet grooming (1)
Automotive 128 3.4% car repair (74) · car wash (20) · auto parts (15) · tires (13) · motorcycle (4) · truck (2)
Living 101 2.7% florist (22) · furniture (21) · theatre (15) · outdoor (8) · houseware (7) · photography (6) · dry cleaning (4) · locksmith (3)
Education 73 1.9% university (40) · library (22) · music lesson (4) · college (3) · driving school (3)
Sports 60 1.6% bicycle (36) · sporting goods (23) · fishing (1)
Finance 54 1.4% accounting (2)
Construction 50 1.3% paint (7) · electrical (5) · electrician (2) · carpet (1) · HVAC (1) · carpentry (1) · pottery (1) · plumbing (1)
Realty 37 1% apartment (23) · studio (9) · real estate (4) · property management (1)
Energy 34 0.9% fuel (34)
Food 25 0.7% ice cream (13) · candy (9) · health food (2) · spices (1)
Media 19 0.5% printing (18) · publisher (1)
Tech 13 0.3% computers (13)
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The franchises already here

Brands from a register of 2,024 franchise systems, matched into this city by name. A high count is a signal in both directions: the territory works, and it may be taken.

17 of these brands are a single common word — Metro, Avenue, Budget — so their counts include businesses that merely share the word. They are marked rather than dropped.

BrandCategory HereWorldwide
McDonald's hamburger 11 31,800
Harvey Norman retail 3 160
Four Points by Sheraton businesshotel 2 —
Max Mara retail 2 —
Best Western businesshotel 1 4,200
Holiday Inn businesshotel 1 —
Holiday Inn Express familyhotel 1 —
North Face retail 1 —
Tommy Hilfiger retail 1 122
Hofer name only supermarket 17 —
IKEA name only retail 3 250
MANGO name only retail 3 850
Intersport name only retail 2 60
Sheraton name only upscalehotel 2 —
Toyota name only car 2 —
Aldo name only retail 1 —
Champion name only supermarket 1 1,000
Honda name only car 1 —
InterContinental name only luxuryhotel 1 —
Krystal name only fastfood 1 400
Lexus name only luxurycar 1 —
Nissan name only auto 1 —
Primark name only retail 1 160
Radisson name only upscalehotel 1 —
Renaissance name only upscalehotel 1 —
Tiffany name only retail 1 150
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Real estate as a local trade

Four unrelated jobs share the name: selling existing homes, owning and letting them, managing them for someone else, and building new ones. For anyone weighing a move or a licence these are the counts — and the ownership question goes to /property, which answers it building by building.

Real estate is a local job market in its own right, and four unrelated trades get the same name. Counts are businesses filed under each trade in the register, which lists a brokerage once however many agents work there — so this measures firms, not licensees.

Selling homes

5312
4 firms · LQ 0.05

Offices of agents and brokers — the resale market, and the biggest single trade in most Canadian cities.

Named in the register

Owning and letting

5311
32 firms · LQ 2.43

Lessors of real estate: the buildings themselves, filed under the building rather than the owner.

Named in the register

Managing for owners

5313
1 firms · LQ 0.21

Property managers, who run buildings the landlord does not.

Named in the register
  • UPSO — Prušnikova ulica 1

Who actually owns it

The full property record →

From the /property research for this city, which asks a different question: not who trades in property here, but who owns it. An owner is named there only where a document says so. Title free to view per property online; no owner-name search; sale prices open.

Landowners

  • City Municipality of Ljubljana — Javni stanovanjski sklad MOL (JSS MOL, the City's public housing fund) — 4,679 city rental housing units (31 Dec 2025); 283 more under construction for 2026
  • Stanovanjski sklad Republike Slovenije (SSRS, the national Housing Fund) — 498 rental flats in 18 buildings at Novo Brdo (4.8 ha) plus 102 at Zeleni Gaj na Brdu
  • Slovenski državni holding (SDH, Slovenian Sovereign Holding) — former DUTB/BAMC property — Portfolio size in Ljubljana not stated; sample: 96 m² building plot in Kašelj offered from €11,000 net (Oct 2026)
  • Republic of Slovenia — Slovenski državni gozdovi (SiDG, State Forests company) — 238,000 ha of State forest nationally (no Ljubljana split)
  • BTC d.d. — 51% of the 398,970 m² it manages in BTC City (2019)

Homebuilders

  • JSS MOL (City of Ljubljana housing fund) — 11 completed 2025; 283 due 2026; 969 in development
  • Stanovanjski sklad RS (national Housing Fund) — 498 rental flats completed at Novo Brdo
  • Mendota Invest d.o.o. (OTP Group) — Emonika — Residential part of Emonika; unit count not stated

Commercial landlords

  • BTC d.d. — 475,000 m² BTC City (400,000 m² business premises); BTC owns 51% of the area it manages there
  • Supernova Group (Graz) — 25 projects in Slovenia; Slovenian investments €500 million (2022); Ljubljana Rudnik 50,000 m²
  • Mendota Invest d.o.o. (OTP Group) — Emonika — investment put at €250 million (2022); €24.8 million utility contribution paid to MOL
  • Fraport Slovenija, d.o.o. (100% Fraport AG) — Ljubljana Airport leasehold to 2054; land-use right carried at €45.9 million (2025)

9 marquee buildings examined, 4 with an owner established.

On "how many doors"

How many doors a landlord holds is not in any of this. The register files an apartment building under the building, not its owner, and carries no unit count; there is no open dataset of Canadian landlords by portfolio. Where this research has established ownership it is in the Ljubljana property record for the city, building by building, which is a different and much slower exercise.

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Work on the go, mobile services

The Ultimate 411 half of local: everything where the customer does not have to come to you. Each service opens a page on Ultimate 411 to request a quote or book a time.

A shop needs the customer to walk in. These 186 services do the opposite — the mobile mechanic, the mobile groomer, the bookkeeper, the junk haul — and they are the ones a person can start without a lease. 2 of them already match a trait filed in this city's register.

The 186 Service=1 rows in search.local: work on the go, mobile services, where the provider travels to the customer. "present" counts businesses already filed under that exact trait name; a blank is a coverage gap, not proof of absence, because the two vocabularies were built separately.

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Schools and colleges

wander.schools is a post-secondary table — universities and colleges. K-12 public and private schools are not in it, and only 7 of its 1,686 rows carry coordinates, so these are listed and not mapped.

InstitutionTypeStudentsFounded
University of Ljubljana University — —

In the business register

Where schooling shows up as a business rather than an institution — which is where K-12, tutoring and childcare appear.

university 40college 3driving school 3
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Health and care

What a person moving a parent here would ask first. The register files clinics and pharmacies; it has no category for a hospital at all, so hospitals are matched by name and the limit is stated rather than hidden.

Medical clinics0
Pharmacies59
Dental practices1

geonet carries no 'hospital' trait, so these are matched on the business name. A distance-to-hospital figure needs a source that states hospital locations.

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Mayor & politics

Who holds office here, from the official lists on /politics: the mayor and city council, and the national parliament members elected for the city. Each name opens its row there.

Mayor
not yet on file
51 on council
Member of Parliament
Tamara Vonta · Svoboda
VE 3000 Ljubljana Center (11-member National Assembly electoral unit); city hall (Mestni trg 1) is in electoral district VO 3007 Ljubljana Center. The city is split between VE 3000 Ljubljana Center and VE 4000 Ljubljana Bežigrad; only VE 3000's members are recorded.
Provincial member
not yet on file
On the ballot
571 candidates
votes 2026-11-15

Everyone who represents Ljubljana, and everyone running →

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What this record cannot tell you

Named in full, because the gaps are the part most likely to be misread as an answer.

  • No census figures on this page: this region is not mapped to a census subdivision in local/census-map.json, so the community counts here are business-register institutions, which is a different measurement and cannot substitute for a population.
  • wander.schools is now readable, but it holds universities and colleges only and 1,679 of its 1,686 rows have no coordinates. K-12 public and private schools need a separate source — in Ontario the Ministry of Education school finder, in British Columbia the provincial school list. wander.citytowns, hotels and territories remain denied to the ru user.
  • No 'hospital' trait exists in geonet; distance to a hospital needs an external source such as StatCan's Open Database of Healthcare Facilities.
  • 0.0% of businesses here carry no coordinates, so a map or address lookup would miss them. Postal codes reach 46%.

Built from

  • geonet.slovenia — the local business register
  • wander.regions — city name, population, metro
  • search.local — trait vocabulary and the come-to-you services
  • search.cozfranchises — 2,024 franchise brands