Nógrád · Balassagyarmati district · population 1,728

Bercel

Everything public data tells about this settlement: whether it has a doctor, how far care is, whether a bus gets there, and where it stands in the national ranking.

Where is it?

Salgótarján Balassagyarmat Bátonyterenye Pásztó Szécsény Rétság Balassagyarmat · central on-call 24 min · hospital 24 min Bercel
Nógrád county, Balassagyarmati district (highlighted). Thin lines are district (járás) borders, small dots district seats. A dashed line is not a route but a connection: its label gives the driving time by road. Here in the settlement: GP, Dentist, Pharmacy.

Who lives here?

aged 0–14: 215 (12.2%) aged 15–64: 1,091 (62.1%) over 65: 452 (25.7%) 12.2% 215 people 62.1% 1,091 people 25.7% 452 people hover
Bercel: age groups
over 65 · men: 169 (37.4% of the group) over 65 · women: 283 (62.6% of the group) over 65 169 283 aged 15–64 · men: 582 (53.3% of the group) aged 15–64 · women: 509 (46.7% of the group) aged 15–64 582 509 aged 0–14 · men: 110 (51.2% of the group) aged 0–14 · women: 105 (48.8% of the group) aged 0–14 110 105
Pyramid: men and women

Bar lengths are measured against the settlement's largest group.

Of a hundred residents
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Of a hundred residents, this many fall into each age group. Hover or click: the centre of the pie shows the exact number.

Against the national shares
aged 0–14 12.2% −2.3%
aged 15–64 62.1% −2.8%
over 65 25.7% +5.1%

The dark line is the national share — where the bar reaches past it, the settlement has more.

41 older people (over 65) / 100 of working age 32 nationally
20 children (aged 0–14) / 100 of working age
210 older people — ageing index / 100 children more older people than children
51.0% of residents are women 861 men · 897 women

Source: KSH, 2022 census (CC BY 4.0). The shares above refer to the census population of 1,758; the 1,728 at the top of the page comes from KSH's latest gazetteer, so the two differ.

How do people live here?

Income, work, births and deaths, moving away — the settlement beside its járás, its county and the median Hungarian settlement. These are the reasons a district is hard to fill, and the reasons people here die sooner.

Income per resident

2.72 m Fta year, 2024

Bercel 2.72 m Ft
Nógrád 2.47 m Ft
median settlement 2.22 m Ft

498 in every 1,000 residents pay personal income tax.

Share of jobseekers

3.1%32 registered jobseekers of 1,043 of working age, September 2026

Bercel 3.1%
Nógrád 7.9%
country 3.6%

41% of them have been looking for over a year.

3%6% 2020202120222023202420252026

Births and deaths

−36.3‰per 1,000 residents, 2022–2025 average

Bercel −36.3‰
Nógrád −7.4‰
median settlement −4.8‰

Births minus deaths. A negative number means more people die than are born.

Moving in and out

+34.0‰per 1,000 residents, 2022–2025 average

Bercel +34.0‰
Nógrád −2.1‰
median settlement −0.4‰

People moving in minus people moving out, within the country. A negative number means more leave than arrive.

Patient visits per GP

13,305a year, 2025

Bercel 13,305

Surgery visits, home visits and telemedicine together. Where districts nearby are empty, the remaining doctors carry more.

According to the census (2022)

● this settlement | járás | county | country

Adults over 20 with a degree country: 23.7%county: 14.5%járás: 15.2% 11.6% 11.6%
Employed, of those over 15 country: 57.5%county: 52.1%járás: 52.9% 48.4% 48.4%
No digital activity at all (over 6) country: 17.4%county: 21.9%járás: 22.3% 33.2% 33.2%
Half-comfort, no-comfort or emergency dwelling country: 3.2%county: 5.1%járás: 4.6% 3.5% 3.5%
Households where everyone is over 65 country: 22.6%county: 24.4%járás: 24.2% 25.2% 25.2%

Settlement data of the 2022 KSH census. Digital skills show how far a phone consultation or an e-prescription can stand in for a surgery; a household of only the old has no one to drive a patient.

What to expect here in a year?

10%

GP care

10% chance that the district serving this settlement is vacant in 12 months.

1 of the serving districts are in the country's riskiest tenth.

16%

Dental care

16% chance that the district serving this settlement is vacant in 12 months.

1 of the serving districts are in the country's riskiest tenth.

A forecast, not a prophecy: from the past risk of filled districts and the past refill pace of vacant ones. It is about the settlement, never about a particular doctor.

Balassagyarmati járás a year from now

5.0GP districts expected vacant in 12 months; 4 of 23 today

now4
in 12 months 5.0

Expected: 1.3 districts falling vacant and 0.3 filled; the 90% band is 3.1–6.9. A forecast, not a promise: from the past risk of filled districts and the past refill pace of vacant ones.

Avoidable mortality in Balassagyarmati járás: 436 per 100,000 (2024); the rural median is 450.

This is a járás figure: NNGYK publishes no settlement-level avoidable mortality, because so few deaths cannot give a reliable rate. The járás's health data →

In a small settlement a few births or moves shift the rate a lot, so the vital statistics are four-year averages; for the smallest villages they still need reading with care.

Sources: KSH TIMEA (income from NAV data), KSH 2022 census, NFSZ settlement data, NNGYK mortality database, NEAK grant winners and monthly data; the forecast is our own calculation.

At street level

Exactly where they are: the staffed surgeries with the doctor's name, the pharmacies, and whatever else is in the settlement. The map loads only on a click, so the page stays readable at once.

Dental surgeryGP surgeryPharmacyAmbulance stationMedical aids

The points are geocoded addresses (Nominatim/OpenStreetMap), not a survey on the ground: where an address is imprecise the marker falls on the settlement centre, and its bubble says so. Map: © MapTiler, data: © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Is there a doctor?

GP care

Has a staffed district.

Served by 1 staffed and 0 vacant or dissolved districts.

Dental care

Has a staffed district.

Served by 1 staffed and 0 vacant or dissolved districts.

GPs in the settlement 1 Dr. Piros Éva
Group by:
120090071 Dr. Piros Éva mixed 2687 Bercel, Kossuth tér 10. 7 years or longer yes

2687 Bercel, Kossuth tér 10. 1 doctors

120090071 Dr. Piros Éva mixed 2687 Bercel, Kossuth tér 10. 7 years or longer yes

Dr. Piros Éva 1 districts

120090071 Dr. Piros Éva mixed 2687 Bercel, Kossuth tér 10. 7 years or longer yes
Dentists in the settlement 1 Dr. Ujj Ágnes
Group by:
120096070 Dr. Ujj Ágnes mixed 2687 Bercel, Kossuth tér 9. < 1 year yes

2687 Bercel, Kossuth tér 9. 1 doctors

120096070 Dr. Ujj Ágnes mixed 2687 Bercel, Kossuth tér 9. < 1 year yes

Dr. Ujj Ágnes 1 districts

120096070 Dr. Ujj Ágnes mixed 2687 Bercel, Kossuth tér 9. < 1 year yes

The doctor's name comes from NEAK's register of contracted providers and is shown only for staffed districts. “Since” comes from our own archive (monthly NEAK snapshots kept since 2017-10), not from a start date NEAK publishes; no public source gives surgery hours.

What is vacant

Vacant is not the same as unserved: substitution does not show in public data.

Health visitors

Health visitor service 1 1 territorial · 0 school
AddressProviderServices
2687 Bercel, Kossuth tér 10. Nógrád Vármegyei Szent Lázár Kórház, Salgótarján 1

No public register names the health visitor — the service and its provider, yes; the person, no. (Doctors' names, too, are shown only for staffed districts, from NEAK's own publication.)

How far?

By car in free-flowing traffic on the OpenStreetMap road network — with the straight-line distance beside it, because the two are not the same.

GP surgery 0.8 min here
Dental surgery 1 min here
Central on-call service 24.3 min Balassagyarmat
Ambulance station 1 min here
Hospital 24.3 min Balassagyarmat
Outpatient clinic 24.3 min Balassagyarmat
Medical aids 0 min here
Pharmacy 0 min here
Emergency department 24.3 min Balassagyarmat
CareDriveStraight lineWhere
GP surgery0.8 min 0.6 km here
Dental surgery1 min 0.6 km here
Central on-call service24.3 min 21.6 km Balassagyarmat
Ambulance station1 min 0.6 km here
Hospital24.3 min 21.6 km Balassagyarmat
Outpatient clinic24.3 min 21.6 km Balassagyarmat
Medical aids0 min 0 km here
Pharmacy0 min 0 km here
Emergency department24.3 min 21.6 km Balassagyarmat

1 medical-aid outlets operate in the settlement.

Pharmacy

PharmacyAddress
Benu Szécsény Király 2687 Bercel, Kossuth Lajos Tér 10.

Pharmacy

The pharmacies on the map, at street level. The points are geocoded addresses (Nominatim/OpenStreetMap), not a survey on the ground: where an address is imprecise the marker falls on the settlement centre, and its bubble says so. Map: © MapTiler, data: © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Can you get there by bus?

60 departures on the reference day
44 settlements reachable without a change
✓ GP Bercel
✓ on-call · 33 min Balassagyarmat
✓ hospital · 33 min Balassagyarmat

On an average Wednesday there are 60 scheduled departures from the settlement, and 44 other settlements can be reached directly.

Trains are not in the data: MÁV's timetable is available only after registration. “No direct bus” does not mean there is no way to get there.

Composite care-risk index ?A weighted mean of eight public measures, each turned into a national percentile: vacancy, driving time to the GP, the dentist, the on-call service, outpatient and inpatient care, bus access, age structure, the risk forecast and the beneficiary-settlement status. 100 is the worst-placed settlement, not one without care.

51.6

0 — the best-placed settlement100 — the worst

Bercel ranks 1,477 of 3,177 settlements — better placed than 53.5% of the country.

51.6

medium risk

Ranked 1,477 highest of the country's 3,177 settlements on the composite care-risk index.

Where does this settlement stand?

The index is a weighted mean of eight public measures, from national percentiles. A comparison, not a verdict: a high value means several measures point the same way — not that there is no care. The method in detail.

What changed in a year?

Compared with the 2025-12 snapshot from our own archive.

What happened to which district 1
NEAK codeBranchDistrictWhat happenedWho / whereFrom
120096070 dental mixed district was filled Dr. Ujj Ágnes July 2026 (< 1 year)

Only changes today's snapshot confirms are listed: a district “fell vacant” if its vacancy began within the year, and “was filled” if a doctor works in it today. The archive's gaps do not show up as changes.

We compare only what every month has data for: vacant and dissolved districts and changes of doctor. Driving times, bus access and the pharmacy network are not available back in time, so no change is claimed for them. At county level, turnover shows how often doctors change.