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The town of Puck is a charming small town spread over the Puck Holm, at the Puck Bay, with qualities particularly attractive for water sports’ fans. Wind conditions predestine the place for sailing, windsurfing, kite surfing and iceboat in the winter.
Puck is the oldest Slavic harbour on the Baltic Sea, the town of Gdansk’s dukes, the base of the royal fleet, the place of Poland’s nuptials with the sea in 1920.
Puck and the Puck Hillocks already in the Stone Age shelters tribes of seals hunters who were settling there. Waters of The Little Sea, Plutnica Valley and the Darzlubie Forest created favorable conditions for economic development of this region. An important period in the town’s and region prehistory was Late Neolith (2500 BC- 1700 BC) when seal hunters settlements started to appear in nearby terrains, now villages of Rewa, Mrzezino, nearby Oslonino, Rzucewo and Ostrowo.
Nowadays Puck is almost 12.000 town fulfilling administrative function, local life-saving, medical care, fire-fighting as well as law and order center. Puck is a capital of the farthest North administrative district with over 70 000 of inhabitants, a regional educational center in scope of secondary and special schools, a local culture, sports and recreation center.
Population: 1995 2000 2005
13.135 12.567 11.492
A numer of inhabitants of Puck has been decreasing since 1995 and it still seems to fall off in the future.
Housing Stock:
Housing stock of Puck amounts 80 buildings and social flats. There are 714 flats (different standard and size) localized in town’s housing stocks: 710 housing flats and 10 social flats.
delivered: 1995 2000 2003
8 20 32
industrial area: 37,0118 ha
An area of rural earth amounts to 111 ha, and it’s 22,5 % of total area of town of Puck.
Structure of rural earth:
rural grounds 85 ha
orchards 4 ha
grass-lands 21 ha
pastures 2 ha
woods 1 ha
others 4 ha
Economy:
Employees employed in sectors: 2003 2004
v Public sector 71, 76
v private sector 1175, 1213
v Merchant corporations 41, 46
v Civil corporations 109, 111
v Co-operatives 6, 6
v Settlements and non-profit organizations 24, 32
v Physical persons having economical activity 973. 991
A number of employees (2004 ):
v In medical corps and social supporting 437
v Education 264
v Architecture/ housing 101
v Trade/ repairing service 313
v Hotels/ restaurants 197
v Industrial proccesing 75
v Transport/ storing economy/ telecommunication 62
v Financial agencies 29
v Real property service/ rent/ service connected with
management the economic activity 112
Unemployment: 2004
summary 738
Women 328
men 410
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