Zala · population 6,820

Lenti

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 Zalaszentgrót Letenye Rédics · dentist 5.5 min Zalaegerszeg · hospital 31 min Lenti
Zala county, Lenti 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, Central on-call, Pharmacy.

Who lives here?

aged 0–14: 870 (12.1%) aged 15–64: 4,461 (62.0%) over 65: 1,864 (25.9%) 12.1% 870 people 62.0% 4,461 people 25.9% 1,864 people hover
Lenti: age groups
over 65 · men: 732 (39.3% of the group) over 65 · women: 1,132 (60.7% of the group) over 65 732 1,132 aged 15–64 · men: 2,233 (50.1% of the group) aged 15–64 · women: 2,228 (49.9% of the group) aged 15–64 2,233 2,228 aged 0–14 · men: 429 (49.3% of the group) aged 0–14 · women: 441 (50.7% of the group) aged 0–14 429 441
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 12.1% −2.4%
aged 15–64 62.0% −2.9%
over 65 25.9% +5.3%

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

42 older people (over 65) / 100 of working age 32 nationally
20 children (aged 0–14) / 100 of working age
214 older people — ageing index / 100 children more older people than children
52.8% of residents are women 3,394 men · 3,801 women

Source: KSH, 2022 census (CC BY 4.0). The shares above refer to the census population of 7,195; the 6,820 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

2.38 m Fta year, 2024

Lenti 2.38 m Ft
Lenti járás 2.13 m Ft
Zala 2.47 m Ft
median settlement 2.22 m Ft

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

Share of jobseekers

3.5%141 registered jobseekers of 4,091 of working age, September 2026

Lenti 3.5%
Zala 3.6%
country 3.6%

36% of them have been looking for over a year.

3%6% 2020202120222023202420252026

Births and deaths

−8.8‰per 1,000 residents, 2022–2025 average

Lenti −8.8‰
Lenti járás −11.2‰
Zala −8.5‰
median settlement −4.8‰

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

Moving in and out

−5.0‰per 1,000 residents, 2022–2025 average

Lenti −5.0‰
Lenti járás +0.1‰
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

42,968a year, 2025

Lenti 42,968

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: 13.5% 18.1% 18.1%
Employed, of those over 15 country: 57.5%county: 54.0%járás: 53.0% 54.9% 54.9%
No digital activity at all (over 6) country: 17.4%county: 20.4%járás: 25.1% 22.6% 22.6%
Half-comfort, no-comfort or emergency dwelling country: 3.2%county: 2.8%járás: 4.1% 1.7% 1.7%
Households where everyone is over 65 country: 22.6%county: 24.9%járás: 25.8% 26.4% 26.4%

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.

What to expect here in a year?

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GP care

3 of the 5 serving districts are vacant today; it is near certain that one of them will still be vacant in a year.

7%

Dental care

7% chance that in 12 months at least one of the 2 districts serving this settlement is vacant.

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.

Lenti járás a year from now

6.3GP districts expected vacant in 12 months; 6 of 14 today

now6
in 12 months 6.3

Expected: 0.7 districts falling vacant and 0.4 filled; the 90% band is 4.7–8.0. A forecast, not a promise: from the past risk of filled districts and the past refill pace of vacant ones.

Avoidable mortality in Lenti járás: 405 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 surgeryPharmacyCentral on-call serviceAmbulance stationOutpatient clinicMedical 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. Has a vacant district.

Served by 2 staffed and 3 vacant or dissolved districts.

A district has its seat here.

Dental care

Has a staffed district.

Served by 2 staffed and 0 vacant or dissolved districts.

GPs in the settlement 2 Dr. Pirkhoffer Katalin · Dr. Vető András
Group by:
200090089 Dr. Pirkhoffer Katalin adult 8960 Lenti, Akácfa u. 2. 7 years or longer yes
200095011 Dr. Vető András children's 8960 Lenti, Kossuth Lajos u. 10. 7 years or longer yes

8960 Lenti, Akácfa u. 2. 1 doctors

200090089 Dr. Pirkhoffer Katalin adult 8960 Lenti, Akácfa u. 2. 7 years or longer yes

8960 Lenti, Kossuth Lajos u. 10. 1 doctors

200095011 Dr. Vető András children's 8960 Lenti, Kossuth Lajos u. 10. 7 years or longer yes

Dr. Pirkhoffer Katalin 1 districts

200090089 Dr. Pirkhoffer Katalin adult 8960 Lenti, Akácfa u. 2. 7 years or longer yes

Dr. Vető András 1 districts

200095011 Dr. Vető András children's 8960 Lenti, Kossuth Lajos u. 10. 7 years or longer yes
Dentists in the settlement 2 Dr. Mészárovics Gabriella · Dr. Pál Attila
Group by:

several doctors work at 1 addresses — marked ⧉; grouping shows them.

200096118 Dr. Mészárovics Gabriella mixed 8960 Lenti, Kossuth Lajos u. 10.⧉ 9 years or longer yes
200096070 Dr. Pál Attila mixed 8960 Lenti, Kossuth Lajos u. 10.⧉ 7 years yes

8960 Lenti, Kossuth Lajos u. 10. 2 doctors

200096118 Dr. Mészárovics Gabriella mixed 8960 Lenti, Kossuth Lajos u. 10. 9 years or longer yes
200096070 Dr. Pál Attila mixed 8960 Lenti, Kossuth Lajos u. 10. 7 years yes

Dr. Mészárovics Gabriella 1 districts

200096118 Dr. Mészárovics Gabriella mixed 8960 Lenti, Kossuth Lajos u. 10. 9 years or longer yes

Dr. Pál Attila 1 districts

200096070 Dr. Pál Attila mixed 8960 Lenti, Kossuth Lajos u. 10. 7 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 3
NEAK codeBranchDistrictStatusSinceSeat
200095010 GP children's persistently vacant April 2019 (7 years) here
200090088 GP adult persistently vacant April 2023 (3 years) here
200090091 GP adult persistently vacant April 2024 (2 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 5 4 territorial · 1 school
AddressProviderServices
8960 Lenti, Kossuth Lajos út 10. Dr. Hetés Ferenc Szakorvosi Rendelőintézet, Lenti 1
8960 Lenti, Kossuth út 10 Zala Vármegyei Szent Rafael Kórház 4

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 0.9 min here
Dental surgery 5.5 min Rédics
Central on-call service 0.3 min here
Ambulance station 0.3 min here
Hospital 31.2 min Zalaegerszeg
Outpatient clinic 14 min here
Medical aids 1.5 min here
Pharmacy 0.9 min here
Emergency department 31.2 min Zalaegerszeg
CareDriveStraight lineWhere
GP surgery0.9 min 0.4 km here
Dental surgery5.5 min 5 km Rédics
Central on-call service0.3 min 0.1 km here
Ambulance station0.3 min 0.2 km here
Hospital31.2 min 31.5 km Zalaegerszeg
Outpatient clinic14 min 10.8 km here
Medical aids1.5 min 1 km here
Pharmacy0.9 min 0.2 km here
Emergency department31.2 min 31.5 km Zalaegerszeg

2 medical-aid outlets operate in the settlement.

Pharmacy

PharmacyAddress
B Gyt Lenti Gyöngyvirág 8960 Lenti, Kossuth U. 4.
Szent Mihály 8960 Lenti, Takarék Köz 10/A

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?

190 departures on the reference day
154 settlements reachable without a change
✓ GP Lenti
✓ on-call Lenti
✓ hospital · 29 min Zalaegerszeg

On an average Wednesday there are 190 scheduled departures from the settlement, and 154 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.

49.2

0 — the best-placed settlement100 — the worst

Lenti ranks 1,649 of 3,177 settlements — better placed than 48.1% of the country.

49.2

low risk

Ranked 1,649 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.