The area of the region is 146.2 thousand sq. km.
Population as of 03/01/2024 – 787.6 thousand people, of which urban – 446.4 thousand people (56.7%).
The region consists of 17 districts, 3 regional cities and 8 district cities. National composition: Kazakhs - 56.2%, Russians - 26.7%, others - 17.1%.
In 2024, within the framework of the Unified Industrialization Map, it is planned to implement 6 projects worth 2.3 billion tenge
with the creation of 185 new jobs. The largest of them are:
- plant for the production of dry construction mixtures (expansion) Tenus LLP (Arshalyn district, cost - 750 million tenge, capacity - 90 thousand tons per year);
- construction of a complex for processing legumes, oilseeds and grain crops of Garanti Export LLP (Kokshetau, cost - 400 million tenge, capacity - 48 thousand tons of grain and legume crops per year).
by 36.7% and amounted to 93.3 billion tenge (the decrease is due to the development of a significant amount of investment in January-March 2023 in the railway industry, alternative energy, and housing construction).
The volume of construction work increased to 19.7 billion tenge or 149.1% of the 2023 figure. 142 thousand square meters of housing were commissioned (a decline of 15.6% was due to a decrease in housing construction due to a lack of heating capacity in the regional center,
which accounts for the largest volume).
Average monthly nominal wage
for January-December 2023 amounted to 300 thousand tenge, which
20% higher than the 2022 level.
The consumer price index amounted to 101.8%, including 102% for food products.
As of April 1, 2024, 129.1 billion tenge or 97.8% were disbursed
to the financing plan for the reporting period.
The state budget received 108.2 billion tenge in taxes and other obligatory payments, or 98.4% of the forecast, including the republican budget - 57.4 billion tenge (86.2%
to the forecast), local – 50.8 billion tenge (117.3% to the forecast).
352.1 billion tenge (53% of the regional budget), incl. for education – 274.6 billion tenge (41.3%), healthcare – 17.6 billion tenge (2.6%).
Coverage of children with preschool education aged 2 to 6 years is 92.3%.
In the field of education, the construction of an extension to special boarding school No. 4 in Kokshetau has been completed.
The construction of 6 schools continues: in Birzhan sal (Bulandy village), Sandyktau (Petrovka village), Tselinograd (Zhana Zhol village) districts, the cities of Stepnogorsk (Bestobe village), Koshy and Kokshetau,
as well as 5 kindergartens: in the Tselinograd region (Karaotkel village), the cities of Kosshy (1 object) and Kokshetau (3 objects).
As part of the National Project “Comfortable School”, the construction of 9 schools continues: in the Tselinograd region -
7 projects (in the villages: Karazhar, Karaotkel, Kabanbay Batyr, Koyandy, Akmol - 1 project each and Talapker - 2 schools), the city of Kokshetau - 2 projects.
In the healthcare sector, the construction of a first aid station in the village of Novoselskoye, Atbasarsky district and a Primary Health Care Center in the village of Koyandy, Tselinograd district, a hospital combined with a clinic in the city of Stepnyak, Birzhan Sal district, continues.
to central water supply - 97.8%, heat supply - 68.6%. Access to central water supply in villages is 95.2%.
For 2024, 33.5 billion tenge have been allocated for the development of water supply and sanitation systems. The funds were allocated for the construction of 30 (10.7 billion tenge) and reconstruction of 48 objects (20.9 billion tenge), development of design and estimate documentation for 12 projects (165.8 million tenge), prospecting and exploration work (769.9 million tenge), current repairs of the 1st facility (85.4 million tenge), acquisition of 29 KBM (864.4 million tenge).
For January-March 2024, there was an increase in serious crimes by 22.7%, the detection rate for them was 74.6%. Particularly serious crimes increased by 5.9%, the detection rate for them was 97.7%.