Nógrád · Szécsényi district · population 5,138

Szécsény

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 Bátonyterenye Pásztó Rétság Balassagyarmat · hospital 15 min Szécsény
Nógrád county, Szécsényi 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, Central on-call, Pharmacy.

Who lives here?

aged 0–14: 642 (12.3%) aged 15–64: 3,388 (64.8%) over 65: 1,199 (22.9%) 12.3% 642 people 64.8% 3,388 people 22.9% 1,199 people hover
Szécsény: age groups
over 65 · men: 450 (37.5% of the group) over 65 · women: 749 (62.5% of the group) over 65 450 749 aged 15–64 · men: 1,713 (50.6% of the group) aged 15–64 · women: 1,675 (49.4% of the group) aged 15–64 1,713 1,675 aged 0–14 · men: 317 (49.4% of the group) aged 0–14 · women: 325 (50.6% of the group) aged 0–14 317 325
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 12.3% −2.2%
aged 15–64 64.8% −0.1%
over 65 22.9% +2.3%

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

35 older people (over 65) / 100 of working age 32 nationally
19 children (aged 0–14) / 100 of working age
187 older people — ageing index / 100 children more older people than children
52.6% of residents are women 2,480 men · 2,749 women

Source: KSH, 2022 census (CC BY 4.0). The shares above refer to the census population of 5,229; the 5,138 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

2.78 m Fta year, 2024

Szécsény 2.78 m Ft
Nógrád 2.47 m Ft
median settlement 2.22 m Ft

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

Share of jobseekers

8.1%270 registered jobseekers of 3,327 of working age, September 2026

Szécsény 8.1%
Nógrád 7.9%
country 3.6%

48% of them have been looking for over a year.

6%11% 2020202120222023202420252026

Births and deaths

−8.2‰per 1,000 residents, 2022–2025 average

Szécsény −8.2‰
Nógrád −7.4‰
median settlement −4.8‰

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

Moving in and out

−3.8‰per 1,000 residents, 2022–2025 average

Szécsény −3.8‰
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.

Patient visits per GP

9,955a year, 2025

Szécsény 9,955

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: 14.5%járás: 11.1% 17.8% 17.8%
Employed, of those over 15 country: 57.5%county: 52.1%járás: 49.4% 55.8% 55.8%
No digital activity at all (over 6) country: 17.4%county: 21.9%járás: 25.1% 20.8% 20.8%
Half-comfort, no-comfort or emergency dwelling country: 3.2%county: 5.1%járás: 7.0% 2.3% 2.3%
Households where everyone is over 65 country: 22.6%county: 24.4%járás: 22.1% 23.8% 23.8%

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

  • 2022 · dental settlement grant district not identified unambiguously

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?

90%

GP care

90% chance that in 12 months at least one of the 5 districts serving this settlement is vacant; 1 are vacant today.

!

Dental care

2 of the 8 serving districts are vacant today; it is near certain that one of them will still be vacant in a year.

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.

Szécsényi járás a year from now

5.0GP districts expected vacant in 12 months; 5 of 11 today

now5
in 12 months 5.0

Expected: 0.4 districts falling vacant and 0.5 filled; the 90% band is 3.5–6.4. A forecast, not a promise: from the past risk of filled districts and the past refill pace of vacant ones.

Avoidable mortality in Szécsényi járás: 514 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 4 staffed and 1 vacant or dissolved districts.

A district has its seat here.

Dental care

Has a staffed district. Has a vacant district.

Served by 6 staffed and 2 vacant or dissolved districts.

A district has its seat here.

GPs in the settlement 4 Dr. Dudás Bernadett · Dr. Dudás Róbert István · Dr. Késmárki Adalbert Zoltán · +1
Group by:

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

120091091 Dr. Dudás Bernadett adult 3170 Szécsény, Rákóczi út 115. 4 years yes
120091092 Dr. Dudás Róbert István adult 3170 Szécsény, Petőfi Sándor u. 4/A. 7 years or longer yes
120091093 Dr. Késmárki Adalbert Zoltán adult 3170 Szécsény, Kossuth út 9.⧉ 7 years or longer yes
120095092 Dr. Zsók Ildikó Julianna children's 3170 Szécsény, Kossuth út 9.⧉ 7 years or longer yes

3170 Szécsény, Kossuth út 9. 2 doctors

120091093 Dr. Késmárki Adalbert Zoltán adult 3170 Szécsény, Kossuth út 9. 7 years or longer yes
120095092 Dr. Zsók Ildikó Julianna children's 3170 Szécsény, Kossuth út 9. 7 years or longer yes

3170 Szécsény, Petőfi Sándor u. 4/A. 1 doctors

120091092 Dr. Dudás Róbert István adult 3170 Szécsény, Petőfi Sándor u. 4/A. 7 years or longer yes

3170 Szécsény, Rákóczi út 115. 1 doctors

120091091 Dr. Dudás Bernadett adult 3170 Szécsény, Rákóczi út 115. 4 years yes

Dr. Dudás Bernadett 1 districts

120091091 Dr. Dudás Bernadett adult 3170 Szécsény, Rákóczi út 115. 4 years yes

Dr. Dudás Róbert István 1 districts

120091092 Dr. Dudás Róbert István adult 3170 Szécsény, Petőfi Sándor u. 4/A. 7 years or longer yes

Dr. Késmárki Adalbert Zoltán 1 districts

120091093 Dr. Késmárki Adalbert Zoltán adult 3170 Szécsény, Kossuth út 9. 7 years or longer yes

Dr. Zsók Ildikó Julianna 1 districts

120095092 Dr. Zsók Ildikó Julianna children's 3170 Szécsény, Kossuth út 9. 7 years or longer yes
Dentists in the settlement 6 Dr. Czinke Gizella · Dr. Kerényi Csaba · Dr. Mester-Laczkó Fanni · +3
Group by:

several doctors work at 1 addresses · 2 doctors work in several districts or sites — marked ⧉; grouping shows them.

120096060 Dr. Czinke Gizella⧉ mixed 3170 Szécsény, Rákóczi út 115.⧉ 2 years yes
120096063 Dr. Kerényi Csaba⧉ mixed 3170 Szécsény, Rákóczi út 115.⧉ 9 years or longer yes
120096062 Dr. Mester-Laczkó Fanni mixed 3170 Szécsény, Rákóczi út 115.⧉ 2 years yes
120096061 Dr. Szarvas Tamás mixed 3170 Szécsény, Rákóczi út 115.⧉ 9 years or longer yes
120096491 Dr. Czinke Gizella⧉ school 3170 Szécsény, Rákóczi út 115.⧉ < 1 year yes
120096490 Dr. Kerényi Csaba⧉ school 3170 Szécsény, Rákóczi út 115.⧉ 9 years or longer yes

3170 Szécsény, Rákóczi út 115. 6 doctors

120096060 Dr. Czinke Gizella mixed 3170 Szécsény, Rákóczi út 115. 2 years yes
120096491 Dr. Czinke Gizella school 3170 Szécsény, Rákóczi út 115. < 1 year yes
120096063 Dr. Kerényi Csaba mixed 3170 Szécsény, Rákóczi út 115. 9 years or longer yes
120096490 Dr. Kerényi Csaba school 3170 Szécsény, Rákóczi út 115. 9 years or longer yes
120096062 Dr. Mester-Laczkó Fanni mixed 3170 Szécsény, Rákóczi út 115. 2 years yes
120096061 Dr. Szarvas Tamás mixed 3170 Szécsény, Rákóczi út 115. 9 years or longer yes

Dr. Czinke Gizella 2 districts

120096060 Dr. Czinke Gizella mixed 3170 Szécsény, Rákóczi út 115. 2 years yes
120096491 Dr. Czinke Gizella school 3170 Szécsény, Rákóczi út 115. < 1 year yes

Dr. Kerényi Csaba 2 districts

120096063 Dr. Kerényi Csaba mixed 3170 Szécsény, Rákóczi út 115. 9 years or longer yes
120096490 Dr. Kerényi Csaba school 3170 Szécsény, Rákóczi út 115. 9 years or longer yes

Dr. Mester-Laczkó Fanni 1 districts

120096062 Dr. Mester-Laczkó Fanni mixed 3170 Szécsény, Rákóczi út 115. 2 years yes

Dr. Szarvas Tamás 1 districts

120096061 Dr. Szarvas Tamás mixed 3170 Szécsény, Rákóczi út 115. 9 years or longer 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
120096051 dental mixed persistently vacant April 2006 (20 years) here
120096023 dental mixed persistently vacant January 2024 (2 years) here
120095091 GP children's vacant July 2026 (< 1 year) 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
3170 Szécsény, Rákóczi út 115. Szécsény Város Önkormányzata 1
3170 Szécsény, Rákóczi út 115. Nógrád Vármegyei Szent Lázár Kórház, Salgótarján 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 0 min here
Dental surgery 0 min here
Central on-call service 0.5 min here
Ambulance station 0 min here
Hospital 14.7 min Balassagyarmat
Outpatient clinic 0.5 min here
Medical aids 0.5 min here
Pharmacy 0.4 min here
Emergency department 14.7 min Balassagyarmat
CareDriveStraight lineWhere
GP surgery0 min 0 km here
Dental surgery0 min 0 km here
Central on-call service0.5 min 0.3 km here
Ambulance station0 min 0 km here
Hospital14.7 min 17.3 km Balassagyarmat
Outpatient clinic0.5 min 0.3 km here
Medical aids0.5 min 0.3 km here
Pharmacy0.4 min 0.2 km here
Emergency department14.7 min 17.3 km Balassagyarmat

1 medical-aid outlets operate in the settlement.

Pharmacy

PharmacyAddress
Benu Szécsény Király 3170 Szécsény, Király U. 1.
Benu Szécsény Szent Jób 3170 Szécsény, Rákóczi Út 94.

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?

244 departures on the reference day
47 settlements reachable without a change
✓ GP Szécsény
✓ on-call Szécsény
✓ hospital · 17 min Balassagyarmat

On an average Wednesday there are 244 scheduled departures from the settlement, and 47 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.

35.4

0 — the best-placed settlement100 — the worst

Szécsény ranks 2,580 of 3,177 settlements — better placed than 18.8% of the country.

35.4

low risk

Ranked 2,580 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 2
NEAK codeBranchDistrictWhat happenedWho / whereFrom
120095091 GP children's district fell vacant here July 2026 (< 1 year)
120096491 dental school district got a new doctor Dr. Czinke Gizella August 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.