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The objective of the paper is to present social and occupational changes in smali towns in the Świętokrzyskie Voivodship in regard to their accessibility to communication with larger towns in the examined area. Because of the availability of statistic data for the analysis, the time period from 1995 to 2004 was selected. Answers to the following ąuestion were looked for in the paper: - is there an interdependence between the directions of the occurring social and occupational changes (a change in the number of inhabitants, changes in internal migrations, changes in the employment structure) in smali towns of the Świętokrzyskie Voivodship and their accessibility to communication with larger towns (exceeding five thousand inhabitants) in the examined area. A network of towns in the Świętokrzyskie Voivodship, in the form in which it functions sińce 1999 is examined.