Zala · Nagykanizsai district · population 970

Gelse

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?

Zalaegerszeg Nagykanizsa Keszthely Lenti Zalaszentgrót Letenye Hahót · dentist 8.8 min Nagykanizsa · central on-call 17 min · hospital 17 min Gelse
Zala county, Nagykanizsai 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, Pharmacy.

Who lives here?

aged 0–14: 102 (10.4%) aged 15–64: 654 (66.7%) over 65: 224 (22.9%) 10.4% 102 people 66.7% 654 people 22.9% 224 people hover
Gelse: age groups
over 65 · men: 90 (40.2% of the group) over 65 · women: 134 (59.8% of the group) over 65 90 134 aged 15–64 · men: 339 (51.8% of the group) aged 15–64 · women: 315 (48.2% of the group) aged 15–64 339 315 aged 0–14 · men: 58 (56.9% of the group) aged 0–14 · women: 44 (43.1% of the group) aged 0–14 58 44
Pyramid: men and women

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

Of a hundred residents
aged 0–14aged 0–14aged 0–14aged 0–14aged 0–14aged 0–14aged 0–14aged 0–14aged 0–14aged 0–14aged 15–64aged 15–64aged 15–64aged 15–64aged 15–64aged 15–64aged 15–64aged 15–64aged 15–64aged 15–64aged 15–64aged 15–64aged 15–64aged 15–64aged 15–64aged 15–64aged 15–64aged 15–64aged 15–64aged 15–64aged 15–64aged 15–64aged 15–64aged 15–64aged 15–64aged 15–64aged 15–64aged 15–64aged 15–64aged 15–64aged 15–64aged 15–64aged 15–64aged 15–64aged 15–64aged 15–64aged 15–64aged 15–64aged 15–64aged 15–64aged 15–64aged 15–64aged 15–64aged 15–64aged 15–64aged 15–64aged 15–64aged 15–64aged 15–64aged 15–64aged 15–64aged 15–64aged 15–64aged 15–64aged 15–64aged 15–64aged 15–64aged 15–64aged 15–64aged 15–64aged 15–64aged 15–64aged 15–64aged 15–64aged 15–64aged 15–64aged 15–64over 65over 65over 65over 65over 65over 65over 65over 65over 65over 65over 65over 65over 65over 65over 65over 65over 65over 65over 65over 65over 65over 65over 65

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 10.4% −4.1%
aged 15–64 66.7% +1.9%
over 65 22.9% +2.2%

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

34 older people (over 65) / 100 of working age 32 nationally
16 children (aged 0–14) / 100 of working age
220 older people — ageing index / 100 children more older people than children
50.3% of residents are women 487 men · 493 women

Source: KSH, 2022 census (CC BY 4.0). The shares above refer to the census population of 980; the 970 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

2.32 m Fta year, 2024

Gelse 2.32 m Ft
Zala 2.47 m Ft
median settlement 2.22 m Ft

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

Share of jobseekers

4.7%30 registered jobseekers of 640 of working age, September 2026

Gelse 4.7%
Zala 3.6%
country 3.6%

30% of them have been looking for over a year.

5%10% 2020202120222023202420252026

Births and deaths

−5.4‰per 1,000 residents, 2022–2025 average

Gelse −5.4‰
Zala −8.5‰
median settlement −4.8‰

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

Moving in and out

−7.7‰per 1,000 residents, 2022–2025 average

Gelse −7.7‰
Zala +0.9‰
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

41,184a year, 2025

Gelse 41,184

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: 18.8%járás: 16.7% 10.3% 10.3%
Employed, of those over 15 country: 57.5%county: 54.0%járás: 52.7% 54.6% 54.6%
No digital activity at all (over 6) country: 17.4%county: 20.4%járás: 20.4% 24.2% 24.2%
Half-comfort, no-comfort or emergency dwelling country: 3.2%county: 2.8%járás: 3.0% 4.9% 4.9%
Households where everyone is over 65 country: 22.6%county: 24.9%járás: 24.6% 22.7% 22.7%

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 · GP settlement grant still filled

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?

12%

GP care

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

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

98%

Dental care

The district serving this settlement is vacant today; 98% chance it still will be in 12 months.

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.

Nagykanizsai járás a year from now

7.0GP districts expected vacant in 12 months; 5 of 46 today

now5
in 12 months 7.0

Expected: 2.5 districts falling vacant and 0.5 filled; the 90% band is 4.3–9.7. A forecast, not a promise: from the past risk of filled districts and the past refill pace of vacant ones.

Avoidable mortality in Nagykanizsai járás: 365 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.

GP 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.

Served by 1 staffed and 0 vacant or dissolved districts.

Dental care

Only vacant districts serve it.

Served by 0 staffed and 1 vacant or dissolved districts.

A district has its seat here.

GPs in the settlement 1 Dr. Mátyás Eszter Mária
Group by:
200090021 Dr. Mátyás Eszter Mária mixed 8774 Gelse, Kossuth L. u. 85. < 1 year yes

8774 Gelse, Kossuth L. u. 85. 1 doctors

200090021 Dr. Mátyás Eszter Mária mixed 8774 Gelse, Kossuth L. u. 85. < 1 year yes

Dr. Mátyás Eszter Mária 1 districts

200090021 Dr. Mátyás Eszter Mária mixed 8774 Gelse, Kossuth L. u. 85. < 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.

Vacant and dissolved districts that serve this settlement 1
NEAK codeBranchDistrictStatusSinceSeat
200096009 dental mixed persistently vacant November 2019 (6 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
8774 Gelse, Kossuth L. utca 28 Zala Vármegyei Szent Rafael 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 0.4 min here
Dental surgery 8.8 min Hahót
Central on-call service 16.6 min Nagykanizsa
Ambulance station 12.7 min Pacsa
Hospital 17 min Nagykanizsa
Outpatient clinic 17 min Nagykanizsa
Medical aids 15.1 min Nagykanizsa
Pharmacy 0 min here
Emergency department 17 min Nagykanizsa
CareDriveStraight lineWhere
GP surgery0.4 min 0.4 km here
Dental surgery8.8 min 6.7 km Hahót
Central on-call service16.6 min 16.9 km Nagykanizsa
Ambulance station12.7 min 11.5 km Pacsa
Hospital17 min 16.8 km Nagykanizsa
Outpatient clinic17 min 11.1 km Nagykanizsa
Medical aids15.1 min 16.3 km Nagykanizsa
Pharmacy0 min 0 km here
Emergency department17 min 16.8 km Nagykanizsa

Pharmacy

PharmacyAddress
Benu Gyt Nk Aranyszarvas 8774 Gelse, Kossuth L. U. 30.

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?

49 departures on the reference day
41 settlements reachable without a change
✓ GP Gelse
✓ on-call · 11 min Nagykanizsa
✓ hospital · 11 min Nagykanizsa

On an average Wednesday there are 49 scheduled departures from the settlement, and 41 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.

61.4

0 — the best-placed settlement100 — the worst

Gelse ranks 797 of 3,177 settlements — better placed than 74.9% of the country.

61.4

medium risk

Ranked 797 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
200090021 GP mixed district got a new doctor Dr. Mátyás Eszter Mária April 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.