Regional data

Regional statistics offers data relating to units of area, settlements, about economic, social and environmental phenomena, processes, respectively contributes to regional impoundment. The goal of regional statistics is to provide reference, information for users by making public regionally detailed data originating from the HCSO data collection system, as well as data and information taken over from external bodies. It incorporates detailed and comprehensive statistics about the situation and development of regions, counties, districts, settlements and units of area outside administrative boundaries (e.g. in-settlements georeferenced data).

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Andrew’s Day

Significant events in village life were pig slaughter and pig slaughter feasts, which started traditionally on 30 November, Andrew’s Day. Not only the immediate family took part in the all-day work, but it was also a custom to invite neighbours, relatives and friends. The circumstances of pig keeping and pig slaughtering substantially changed in the last decades. The number of small farms fell, and that of domestic slaughtering shows a decreasing trend. In 2023, three-quarters of Hungary’s pig population of 2.5 million belonged to pig keepers each having a population exceeding 5,000 pigs.

Regional Statistics, Volume 14, Number 6, 2024

The latest issue of the scientific journal features studies on the following topics: climate change mitigation actions on food prices in developing countries; trends in the digitalisation index cluster; spatial planning’s impact on land transformation in Selangor State, Malaysia; impact of financial development on international trade in BRICS countries; the role of initial and structural factors in local convergence club formation in Hungary; China’s anti-corruption efforts on local governments’ fiscal position; the DESI and SDG index in the EU and V4; digital literacy and capability to manage e-government in Hungary.

Regional Statistical Yearbook of Hungary, 2023

The publication sums up main demographic, social and economic indices of counties and regions, and presents certain data of EU regions as well. Territorial comparison is in the focus of the yearbook, presenting them through tables and maps. Revenues of accommodation establishments is a new feature of the Tourism, hospitality chapter. Our publication comes with an online annex, displaying tables, graphs and maps.

3 November 2024, the Feast Day of St Hubert, the patron saint of hunters

In 2023, in addition to a record number of 68 thousand sport hunters, nearly 3 thousand professional hunters performed tasks of wildlife management and wildlife protection management in Hungary. Out of the 50 best antlered deer trophies in Hungary so far, 20 were taken in Zala County, 11 in Somogy County, and 15-15 of the best fallow deer trophies were taken in Hajdú-Bihar and Tolna Counties. The revenues of hunting companies from shooting for hire and the provision of related services increased to a peak value of HUF 18.2 billion in 2023.

Near-record water levels on the Danube - One fifth of the territory of Hungary and one third of its settlements at risk of flooding

Storm Boris, which struck central Europe in mid-September, brought heavy rainfall to the region, triggering long-unprecedented flooding in the upper Danube. In Hungary, too, water levels reached record levels, in some cases approaching the highest levels of 2013 by less than half a metre. A fifth of Hungary's territory and a third of its settlements are at risk of flooding, with more than 300 of them classified as high risk.

The Day of Pécs, 1 September

Pope Urban V signed the deed of foundation of the University of Pécs on 1 September 1367, this day - 1 September - becoming, since 1994, the Day of Pécs (furthermore, the Day of Hungarian Higher Education, since 2017). The city with 140 thousand inhabitants is the largest settlement of Transdanubia and the 5th largest among Hungary’s settlements. A significant part of the industrial establishments ceased following the regime change, still, today Pécs is an outstanding educational, cultural and tourism centre.

Statistical Yearbook of Hungary, 2023

The yearbook provides an overview of Hungary's demographic, social and economic processes, environmental characteristics and their changes over time, with the help of tens of thousands of data of 500 tables, graphs and maps. Innovatively, the Tourism, catering chapter in the volume includes the gross receipts of tourist accommodation establishments by type of accommodation. Another change is that this year the Regional data chapter already presents territorial data by tourism area, giving greater emphasis to tourist destinations.

Day of the Zoos, 9 August

The first Hungarian Zoo – the Budapest Zoo & Botanical Garden - opened its gates on 9 August 1866, the Day of the Zoos is organised year after year on this particular day in memory of the event. Their educational and that of environmentally conscious awareness work reaches many people, while the zoo’s nature conserving activity contributes to the conservation of endangered species. Visits to Hungary’s zoos came close to four million in 2023, this number being the third highest after the turn of the millennium.

European Day of Parks: vote for nature! - Nature is important for all of us

The European Association of National Parks (EUROPARC) declared 24 May 1999 as European Day of Parks to commemorate the establishment of the continent's first national parks in Sweden on this day in 1909. The aim of the initiative is to raise awareness of the importance of national parks and other protected areas and thus to promote wider public support for nature conservation.

Examination of the Covid pandemic’s impact on the functional urban areas of Hungary

The negative impacts of the Covid pandemic did not affect the 19 functional urban areas of Hungary uniformly. A five-component group of indices offers insight into the social and economic changes caused by the pandemic, without testing cause and effect factors. The pandemic had an affirmable negative impact on three of the indices (museum visits, number of tourism nights and mortality numbers), the correlation is not certifiable in the case of two (number of jobseekers, economic power).

Detailed Gazetteer of Hungary updated

We updated data on intra-settlement housing and resident population, available within the section titled Parts of towns and of settlements, according to the status at the 2022 Census. The Detailed Gazetteer of the Countries under the Hungarian Crown was first published 150 years ago, in 1873, being edited and compiled by the National Hungarian Royal Statistical Office, followed by 25 additional printed editions, the last one in 2003. Since then the publication has come out online. The Detailed Gazetteer is the name and data repository of Hungary’s localities, the present version containing data according to the administrative status as of 1 January 2023.

Census Maps

With the Census Maps application you can create thematic maps for different territorial levels of Hungary (region, county, district, municipality). A number of setting and filtering options are available for displaying demographic, education, economic activity, ethnicity, religion, housing and other data from the 2022 and 2011 Censuses, and for selecting the territorial units. The maps and data produced can be downloaded and interpreted using methodological information.

Settlement and district related data regarding 2022 are presented here

Datasets from the Dissemination Database regarding settlements and Budapest’s districts have been updated with 2022 data, as such settlement and district related data for 2022 are available since 31 August, concerning, among others, data on resident population, vital events, hospitals and road traffic accidents. The complete list of the topics to may be found on the front page of the datasets.