Unfavourable global and national population movements, caused by socio-economic conditions have led to a profound reflection in the social policy interventions. In order to create a purposeful intervention, community approaches should include more detailed analysis of trends and population structure. Such analysis are contained in the social pictures that are increasingly becoming the backbone for social planning. Social picture is the sum of social indicators which are related to quality of life in a particular area (Ceraneo, 2014). The purpose of this paper is to present the current situation and trends of population in one local self-government, the Municipality Štefanje. All in order to implement targeted social policy measures and to lay the groundwork for the continuous monitoring of population trends and social indicators. Through data analysis we particularly recognize the problems of depopulation of distant (peripheral) rural areas which are faced with a number of demographic challenges. These challenges are often associated with a tendency towards the concentration of people in a very urbanized areas, which increases the existing imbalance in population density and economic situation in these regions. We believe that the proposal of the social picture of this municipality will show the importance of continuous statistics monitoring and will lead to higher interest of experts and the general public.