Nógrád · Salgótarjáni district · population 222 · beneficiary settlement

Sámsonháza

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?

Salgótarján Balassagyarmat Pásztó Szécsény Rétság Nagybárkány · gp 3.4 min Pásztó · central on-call 7.8 min · hospital 7.0 min Tar · pharmacy 4.7 min Sámsonháza
Nógrád county, Salgótarjáni 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: 47 (19.0%) aged 15–64: 146 (59.1%) over 65: 54 (21.9%) 19.0% 47 people 59.1% 146 people 21.9% 54 people hover
Sámsonháza: age groups
over 65 · men: 20 (37.0% of the group) over 65 · women: 34 (63.0% of the group) over 65 20 34 aged 15–64 · men: 75 (51.4% of the group) aged 15–64 · women: 71 (48.6% of the group) aged 15–64 75 71 aged 0–14 · men: 23 (48.9% of the group) aged 0–14 · women: 24 (51.1% of the group) aged 0–14 23 24
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 19.0% +4.5%
aged 15–64 59.1% −5.8%
over 65 21.9% +1.3%

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

37 older people (over 65) / 100 of working age 32 nationally
32 children (aged 0–14) / 100 of working age
115 older people — ageing index / 100 children more older people than children
52.2% of residents are women 118 men · 129 women

Source: KSH, 2022 census (CC BY 4.0). The shares above refer to the census population of 247; the 222 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

2.05 m Fta year, 2024

Sámsonháza 2.05 m Ft
Nógrád 2.47 m Ft
median settlement 2.22 m Ft

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

Share of jobseekers

14.6%20 registered jobseekers of 137 of working age, September 2026

Sámsonháza 14.6%
Nógrád 7.9%
country 3.6%

35% of them have been looking for over a year.

8%15% 2020202120222023202420252026

Births and deaths

−7.1‰per 1,000 residents, 2022–2025 average

Sámsonháza −7.1‰
Nógrád −7.4‰
median settlement −4.8‰

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

Moving in and out

−36.4‰per 1,000 residents, 2022–2025 average

Sámsonháza −36.4‰
Nógrád −2.1‰
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: 14.5%járás: 17.2% 13.8% 13.8%
Employed, of those over 15 country: 57.5%county: 52.1%járás: 50.9% 55.0% 55.0%
No digital activity at all (over 6) country: 17.4%county: 21.9%járás: 20.5% 24.2% 24.2%
Half-comfort, no-comfort or emergency dwelling country: 3.2%county: 5.1%járás: 4.9% 12.4% 12.4%
Households where everyone is over 65 country: 22.6%county: 24.4%járás: 26.0% 34.0% 34.0%

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?

23%

GP care

23% 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.

Salgótarjáni járás a year from now

17.5GP districts expected vacant in 12 months; 16 of 46 today

now16
in 12 months 17.5

Expected: 2.4 districts falling vacant and 0.8 filled; the 90% band is 14.8–20.3. A forecast, not a promise: from the past risk of filled districts and the past refill pace of vacant ones.

Avoidable mortality in Salgótarjáni járás: 511 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

Only vacant districts serve it.

Served by 0 staffed and 1 vacant or dissolved districts.

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.

Vacant and dissolved districts that serve this settlement 1
NEAK codeBranchDistrictStatusSinceSeat
120096044 dental mixed dissolved August 2024 (2 years) Bárna

“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

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 3.4 min Nagybárkány
Dental surgery 5.4 min Lucfalva
Central on-call service 7.8 min Pásztó
Ambulance station 7.1 min Pásztó
Hospital 7 min Pásztó
Outpatient clinic 8.5 min Pásztó
Medical aids 7 min Pásztó
Pharmacy 4.7 min Tar
Emergency department 18.7 min Salgótarján
CareDriveStraight lineWhere
GP surgery3.4 min 2.1 km Nagybárkány
Dental surgery5.4 min 5.5 km Lucfalva
Central on-call service7.8 min 7.9 km Pásztó
Ambulance station7.1 min 7.5 km Pásztó
Hospital7 min 7.5 km Pásztó
Outpatient clinic8.5 min 8 km Pásztó
Medical aids7 min 7.5 km Pásztó
Pharmacy4.7 min 4.3 km Tar
Emergency department18.7 min 17.1 km Salgótarján

Pharmacy

There is no contracted pharmacy in the settlement. The nearest is in Tar, 4.7 min by car.

Can you get there by bus?

24 departures on the reference day
8 settlements reachable without a change
✓ GP · 2 min Nagybárkány
✓ on-call · 12 min Pásztó
✓ hospital · 12 min Pásztó

On an average Wednesday there are 24 scheduled departures from the settlement, and 8 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.

54.4

0 — the best-placed settlement100 — the worst

Sámsonháza ranks 1,284 of 3,177 settlements — better placed than 59.6% of the country.

54.4

medium risk

Ranked 1,284 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.