Békés · Mezőkovácsházai district · population 4,173 · beneficiary settlement

Mezőhegyes

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 Mezőkovácsháza · central on-call 14 min Orosháza · hospital 27 min Mezőhegyes
Békés county, Mezőkovácsházai 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: 505 (11.2%) aged 15–64: 2,778 (61.8%) over 65: 1,213 (27.0%) 11.2% 505 people 61.8% 2,778 people 27.0% 1,213 people hover
Mezőhegyes: age groups
over 65 · men: 469 (38.7% of the group) over 65 · women: 744 (61.3% of the group) over 65 469 744 aged 15–64 · men: 1,438 (51.8% of the group) aged 15–64 · women: 1,340 (48.2% of the group) aged 15–64 1,438 1,340 aged 0–14 · men: 248 (49.1% of the group) aged 0–14 · women: 257 (50.9% of the group) aged 0–14 248 257
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 11.2% −3.3%
aged 15–64 61.8% −3.1%
over 65 27.0% +6.4%

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

44 older people (over 65) / 100 of working age 32 nationally
18 children (aged 0–14) / 100 of working age
240 older people — ageing index / 100 children more older people than children
52.1% of residents are women 2,155 men · 2,341 women

Source: KSH, 2022 census (CC BY 4.0). The shares above refer to the census population of 4,496; the 4,173 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

2.39 m Fta year, 2024

Mezőhegyes 2.39 m Ft
Békés 2.39 m Ft
median settlement 2.22 m Ft

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

Share of jobseekers

6.1%157 registered jobseekers of 2,557 of working age, September 2026

Mezőhegyes 6.1%
Békés 5.0%
country 3.6%

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

4%7% 2020202120222023202420252026

Births and deaths

−14.8‰per 1,000 residents, 2022–2025 average

Mezőhegyes −14.8‰
Békés −9.7‰
median settlement −4.8‰

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

Moving in and out

−9.7‰per 1,000 residents, 2022–2025 average

Mezőhegyes −9.7‰
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

20,554a year, 2025

Mezőhegyes 20,554

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: 10.8% 14.1% 14.1%
Employed, of those over 15 country: 57.5%county: 53.8%járás: 50.2% 52.6% 52.6%
No digital activity at all (over 6) country: 17.4%county: 22.1%járás: 26.2% 24.2% 24.2%
Half-comfort, no-comfort or emergency dwelling country: 3.2%county: 4.9%járás: 8.9% 5.8% 5.8%
Households where everyone is over 65 country: 22.6%county: 26.4%járás: 27.2% 29.7% 29.7%

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.

What to expect here in a year?

20%

GP care

20% chance that in 12 months at least one of the 2 districts serving this settlement is vacant.

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

85%

Dental care

85% 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.

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.

Mezőkovácsházai járás a year from now

12.1GP districts expected vacant in 12 months; 11 of 29 today

now11
in 12 months 12.1

Expected: 1.5 districts falling vacant and 0.4 filled; the 90% band is 10.0–14.3. A forecast, not a promise: from the past risk of filled districts and the past refill pace of vacant ones.

Avoidable mortality in Mezőkovácsházai járás: 547 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.

Served by 2 staffed and 0 vacant or dissolved districts.

Dental 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.

GPs in the settlement 2 Dr. Balla Szilárd · Dr. Páll Viktor
Group by:
040090126 Dr. Balla Szilárd mixed 5820 Mezőhegyes, Ruisz Gyula u. 1. 5 years yes
040090125 Dr. Páll Viktor mixed 5820 Mezőhegyes, Hild János u. 5. < 1 year yes

5820 Mezőhegyes, Hild János u. 5. 1 doctors

040090125 Dr. Páll Viktor mixed 5820 Mezőhegyes, Hild János u. 5. < 1 year yes

5820 Mezőhegyes, Ruisz Gyula u. 1. 1 doctors

040090126 Dr. Balla Szilárd mixed 5820 Mezőhegyes, Ruisz Gyula u. 1. 5 years yes

Dr. Balla Szilárd 1 districts

040090126 Dr. Balla Szilárd mixed 5820 Mezőhegyes, Ruisz Gyula u. 1. 5 years yes

Dr. Páll Viktor 1 districts

040090125 Dr. Páll Viktor mixed 5820 Mezőhegyes, Hild János u. 5. < 1 year yes
Dentists in the settlement 1 Dr. Herter László
Group by:
040096042 Dr. Herter László mixed 5820 Mezőhegyes, Kozma F. u. 3. 4 years yes

5820 Mezőhegyes, Kozma F. u. 3. 1 doctors

040096042 Dr. Herter László mixed 5820 Mezőhegyes, Kozma F. u. 3. 4 years yes

Dr. Herter László 1 districts

040096042 Dr. Herter László mixed 5820 Mezőhegyes, Kozma F. u. 3. 4 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
040096043 dental mixed persistently vacant December 2023 (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 3 2 territorial · 1 school
AddressProviderServices
5820 Mezőhegyes, Béke park 1. Mezőhegyes Városi Önkormányzat 1
5820 Mezőhegyes, Hild János utca 5. Békés Vármegyei Központi Kórház 2

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 1.2 min here
Dental surgery 0.9 min here
Central on-call service 13.8 min Mezőkovácsháza
Ambulance station 12.6 min Tótkomlós
Hospital 26.9 min Orosháza
Outpatient clinic 11.5 min Tótkomlós
Medical aids 13.1 min Mezőkovácsháza
Pharmacy 1.5 min here
Emergency department 26.9 min Orosháza
CareDriveStraight lineWhere
GP surgery1.2 min 0.5 km here
Dental surgery0.9 min 0.4 km here
Central on-call service13.8 min 13.6 km Mezőkovácsháza
Ambulance station12.6 min 13.2 km Tótkomlós
Hospital26.9 min 28.9 km Orosháza
Outpatient clinic11.5 min 12.6 km Tótkomlós
Medical aids13.1 min 13 km Mezőkovácsháza
Pharmacy1.5 min 0.7 km here
Emergency department26.9 min 28.9 km Orosháza

Pharmacy

PharmacyAddress
Szent György Patika Gyt. 5820 Mezőhegyes, István Király U. 2.

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?

93 departures on the reference day
38 settlements reachable without a change
✓ GP Mezőhegyes
✓ on-call · 9 min Mezőkovácsháza
✓ hospital · 41 min Orosháza

On an average Wednesday there are 93 scheduled departures from the settlement, and 38 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.

61.7

0 — the best-placed settlement100 — the worst

Mezőhegyes ranks 775 of 3,177 settlements — better placed than 75.6% of the country.

61.7

medium risk

Ranked 775 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
040090125 GP mixed district got a new doctor Dr. Páll Viktor 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.