Békés · Szeghalmi district · population 1,984 · beneficiary settlement

Bucsa

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?

Békéscsaba Gyula Orosháza Békés Szarvas Gyomaendrőd Sarkad Szeghalom Mezőkovácsháza Karcag · central on-call 15 min · hospital 15 min Bucsa
Békés county, Szeghalmi 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: 361 (17.4%) aged 15–64: 1,314 (63.2%) over 65: 403 (19.4%) 17.4% 361 people 63.2% 1,314 people 19.4% 403 people hover
Bucsa: age groups
over 65 · men: 170 (42.2% of the group) over 65 · women: 233 (57.8% of the group) over 65 170 233 aged 15–64 · men: 679 (51.7% of the group) aged 15–64 · women: 635 (48.3% of the group) aged 15–64 679 635 aged 0–14 · men: 189 (52.4% of the group) aged 0–14 · women: 172 (47.6% of the group) aged 0–14 189 172
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 17.4% +2.9%
aged 15–64 63.2% −1.6%
over 65 19.4% −1.2%

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

31 older people (over 65) / 100 of working age 32 nationally
27 children (aged 0–14) / 100 of working age
112 older people — ageing index / 100 children more older people than children
50.0% of residents are women 1,038 men · 1,040 women

Source: KSH, 2022 census (CC BY 4.0). The shares above refer to the census population of 2,078; the 1,984 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

2.16 m Fta year, 2024

Bucsa 2.16 m Ft
Békés 2.39 m Ft
median settlement 2.22 m Ft

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

Share of jobseekers

5.0%63 registered jobseekers of 1,248 of working age, September 2026

Bucsa 5.0%
Békés 5.0%
country 3.6%

40% of them have been looking for over a year.

4%8% 2020202120222023202420252026

Births and deaths

−2.9‰per 1,000 residents, 2022–2025 average

Bucsa −2.9‰
Békés −9.7‰
median settlement −4.8‰

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

Moving in and out

−3.5‰per 1,000 residents, 2022–2025 average

Bucsa −3.5‰
Békés −3.1‰
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

18,745a year, 2025

Bucsa 18,745

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: 16.0%járás: 9.9% 7.1% 7.1%
Employed, of those over 15 country: 57.5%county: 53.8%járás: 55.9% 54.9% 54.9%
No digital activity at all (over 6) country: 17.4%county: 22.1%járás: 23.2% 24.7% 24.7%
Half-comfort, no-comfort or emergency dwelling country: 3.2%county: 4.9%járás: 6.6% 9.7% 9.7%
Households where everyone is over 65 country: 22.6%county: 26.4%járás: 24.0% 22.4% 22.4%

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.

District filled with a state grant

  • 2024 · dental settlement grant district not identified unambiguously

NEAK publishes the winners of the settlement and practice-right grants every year. We do not show the winner's name; whether the district has a doctor today is followed in NEAK's monthly data.

What to expect here in a year?

91%

GP care

91% chance that in 12 months at least one of the 2 districts serving this settlement is vacant; 1 are vacant today.

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

25%

Dental care

25% 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.

Szeghalmi járás a year from now

8.2GP districts expected vacant in 12 months; 8 of 19 today

now8
in 12 months 8.2

Expected: 0.6 districts falling vacant and 0.3 filled; the 90% band is 6.7–9.8. A forecast, not a promise: from the past risk of filled districts and the past refill pace of vacant ones.

Avoidable mortality in Szeghalmi járás: 505 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 surgeryPharmacy

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. Has a vacant district.

Served by 1 staffed and 1 vacant or dissolved districts.

A district has its seat here.

Dental care

Has a staffed district.

Served by 1 staffed and 0 vacant or dissolved districts.

GPs in the settlement 1 Dr. Polyák Erzsébet
Group by:
040090221 Dr. Polyák Erzsébet mixed 5527 Bucsa, Kossuth u. 28. 7 years or longer yes

5527 Bucsa, Kossuth u. 28. 1 doctors

040090221 Dr. Polyák Erzsébet mixed 5527 Bucsa, Kossuth u. 28. 7 years or longer yes

Dr. Polyák Erzsébet 1 districts

040090221 Dr. Polyák Erzsébet mixed 5527 Bucsa, Kossuth u. 28. 7 years or longer yes
Dentists in the settlement 1 Dr. Szentpéteri Diána
Group by:
040096001 Dr. Szentpéteri Diána mixed 5527 Bucsa, Kossuth u. 65. 1 years yes

5527 Bucsa, Kossuth u. 65. 1 doctors

040096001 Dr. Szentpéteri Diána mixed 5527 Bucsa, Kossuth u. 65. 1 years yes

Dr. Szentpéteri Diána 1 districts

040096001 Dr. Szentpéteri Diána mixed 5527 Bucsa, Kossuth u. 65. 1 years 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.

Vacant and dissolved districts that serve this settlement 1
NEAK codeBranchDistrictStatusSinceSeat
040090043 GP mixed persistently vacant December 2024 (1 years) here

“Since” is the first month on NEAK's vacancy list. A vacant district is never named with a doctor, and substitution does not show in public data.

Health visitors

Health visitor service 1 1 territorial · 0 school
AddressProviderServices
5527 Bucsa, Kossuth utca 50 Békés Vármegyei Központi Kórház 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 0.5 min here
Dental surgery 0.5 min here
Central on-call service 15 min Karcag
Ambulance station 15 min Karcag
Hospital 15 min Karcag
Outpatient clinic 14.7 min Karcag
Medical aids 12.9 min Karcag
Pharmacy 0.3 min here
Emergency department 15 min Karcag
CareDriveStraight lineWhere
GP surgery0.5 min 0.4 km here
Dental surgery0.5 min 0.4 km here
Central on-call service15 min 14.8 km Karcag
Ambulance station15 min 14.7 km Karcag
Hospital15 min 14.8 km Karcag
Outpatient clinic14.7 min 14.6 km Karcag
Medical aids12.9 min 13.3 km Karcag
Pharmacy0.3 min 0.1 km here
Emergency department15 min 14.8 km Karcag

Pharmacy

PharmacyAddress
Berek Patika 5527 Bucsa, Kossuth Tér 5

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?

24 departures on the reference day
10 settlements reachable without a change
✓ GP Bucsa
✓ on-call · 2 min Karcag
✓ hospital · 2 min Karcag

On an average Wednesday there are 24 scheduled departures from the settlement, and 10 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.

58.8

0 — the best-placed settlement100 — the worst

Bucsa ranks 966 of 3,177 settlements — better placed than 69.6% of the country.

58.8

medium risk

Ranked 966 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.

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.