Békés · Mezőkovácsházai district · population 322 · beneficiary settlement

Pusztaottlaka

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 Orosháza Békés Szarvas Gyomaendrőd Sarkad Szeghalom Mezőkovácsháza Medgyesbodzás · gp 7.0 min · pharmacy 7.0 min Medgyesegyháza · dentist 8.8 min Mezőkovácsháza · central on-call 18 min Békéscsaba · hospital 22 min Pusztaottlaka
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.

Who lives here?

aged 0–14: 44 (15.2%) aged 15–64: 163 (56.2%) over 65: 83 (28.6%) 15.2% 44 people 56.2% 163 people 28.6% 83 people hover
Pusztaottlaka: age groups
over 65 · men: 32 (38.6% of the group) over 65 · women: 51 (61.4% of the group) over 65 32 51 aged 15–64 · men: 80 (49.1% of the group) aged 15–64 · women: 83 (50.9% of the group) aged 15–64 80 83 aged 0–14 · men: 26 (59.1% of the group) aged 0–14 · women: 18 (40.9% of the group) aged 0–14 26 18
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 15.2% +0.7%
aged 15–64 56.2% −8.7%
over 65 28.6% +8.0%

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

51 older people (over 65) / 100 of working age 32 nationally
27 children (aged 0–14) / 100 of working age
189 older people — ageing index / 100 children more older people than children
52.4% of residents are women 138 men · 152 women

Source: KSH, 2022 census (CC BY 4.0). The shares above refer to the census population of 290; the 322 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

1.23 m Fta year, 2024

Pusztaottlaka 1.23 m Ft
Békés 2.39 m Ft
median settlement 2.22 m Ft

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

Share of jobseekers

12.2%24 registered jobseekers of 197 of working age, September 2026

Pusztaottlaka 12.2%
Békés 5.0%
country 3.6%

33% of them have been looking for over a year.

8%14% 2020202120222023202420252026

Births and deaths

−13.9‰per 1,000 residents, 2022–2025 average

Pusztaottlaka −13.9‰
Békés −9.7‰
median settlement −4.8‰

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

Moving in and out

+29.7‰per 1,000 residents, 2022–2025 average

Pusztaottlaka +29.7‰
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.

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% 4.7% 4.7%
Employed, of those over 15 country: 57.5%county: 53.8%járás: 50.2% 37.4% 37.4%
No digital activity at all (over 6) country: 17.4%county: 22.1%járás: 26.2% 35.8% 35.8%
Half-comfort, no-comfort or emergency dwelling country: 3.2%county: 4.9%járás: 8.9% 15.9% 15.9%
Households where everyone is over 65 country: 22.6%county: 26.4%járás: 27.2% 28.3% 28.3%

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?

9%

GP care

9% 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.

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.

Is there a doctor?

GP care

Has a staffed district.

Served by 1 staffed and 0 vacant or dissolved districts.

Dental care

Not on any district's list.

The register lists this settlement under no district.

No staffed district has a surgery in this settlement — below are the districts that serve it, and where the nearest care is.

What is vacant

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

Which dental district does it belong to?

No dental district's list names this settlement. Not because it has no care, but because for dentistry NEAK publishes only the district's seat, not the settlements it serves — the GP register carries them, the dental one does not. The actual district boundary is set by municipal decree, which is not published centrally in machine-readable form.

The nearest dental surgery is in Medgyesegyháza, 8.8 min by car. That is the nearest one, not necessarily the one the settlement officially belongs to.

Health visitors

Health visitor service 1 1 territorial · 0 school
AddressProviderServices
5665 Pusztaottlaka, Tavasz utca 28. 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 7 min Medgyesbodzás
Dental surgery 8.8 min Medgyesegyháza
Central on-call service 18.2 min Mezőkovácsháza
Ambulance station 18.2 min Mezőkovácsháza
Hospital 21.8 min Békéscsaba
Outpatient clinic 8.8 min Medgyesegyháza
Medical aids 15.2 min Szabadkígyós
Pharmacy 7 min Medgyesbodzás
Emergency department 21.8 min Békéscsaba
CareDriveStraight lineWhere
GP surgery7 min 4.6 km Medgyesbodzás
Dental surgery8.8 min 5 km Medgyesegyháza
Central on-call service18.2 min 15.8 km Mezőkovácsháza
Ambulance station18.2 min 13.6 km Mezőkovácsháza
Hospital21.8 min 17.4 km Békéscsaba
Outpatient clinic8.8 min 5 km Medgyesegyháza
Medical aids15.2 min 8.5 km Szabadkígyós
Pharmacy7 min 4.6 km Medgyesbodzás
Emergency department21.8 min 17.4 km Békéscsaba

Pharmacy

There is no contracted pharmacy in the settlement. The nearest is in Medgyesbodzás, 7 min by car.

Can you get there by bus?

16 departures on the reference day
26 settlements reachable without a change
✓ GP · 1 min Medgyesbodzás
✓ on-call · 26 min Mezőkovácsháza
✓ hospital · 14 min Békéscsaba

On an average Wednesday there are 16 scheduled departures from the settlement, and 26 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.

70.8

0 — the best-placed settlement100 — the worst

Pusztaottlaka ranks 327 of 3,177 settlements — better placed than 89.7% of the country.

70.8

high risk

Ranked 327 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.