Nógrád · Pásztói district · population 1,093 · beneficiary settlement

Szirák

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 Szécsény Rétság Vanyarc · gp 6.3 min Zagyvaszántó · dentist 13 min Pásztó · central on-call 20 min · hospital 20 min Szirák
Nógrád county, Pásztói 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: Pharmacy.

Who lives here?

aged 0–14: 246 (22.6%) aged 15–64: 679 (62.3%) over 65: 165 (15.1%) 22.6% 246 people 62.3% 679 people 15.1% 165 people hover
Szirák: age groups
over 65 · men: 70 (42.4% of the group) over 65 · women: 95 (57.6% of the group) over 65 70 95 aged 15–64 · men: 338 (49.8% of the group) aged 15–64 · women: 341 (50.2% of the group) aged 15–64 338 341 aged 0–14 · men: 135 (54.9% of the group) aged 0–14 · women: 111 (45.1% of the group) aged 0–14 135 111
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 22.6% +8.1%
aged 15–64 62.3% −2.6%
over 65 15.1% −5.5%

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

24 older people (over 65) / 100 of working age 32 nationally
36 children (aged 0–14) / 100 of working age
67 older people — ageing index / 100 children more children than older people
50.2% of residents are women 543 men · 547 women

Source: KSH, 2022 census (CC BY 4.0). The shares above refer to the census population of 1,090; the 1,093 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

1.55 m Fta year, 2024

Szirák 1.55 m Ft
Nógrád 2.47 m Ft
median settlement 2.22 m Ft

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

Share of jobseekers

10.6%71 registered jobseekers of 670 of working age, September 2026

Szirák 10.6%
Nógrád 7.9%
country 3.6%

39% of them have been looking for over a year.

10%18% 2020202120222023202420252026

Births and deaths

+1.9‰per 1,000 residents, 2022–2025 average

Szirák +1.9‰
Nógrád −7.4‰
median settlement −4.8‰

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

Moving in and out

−3.0‰per 1,000 residents, 2022–2025 average

Szirák −3.0‰
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: 12.1% 4.9% 4.9%
Employed, of those over 15 country: 57.5%county: 52.1%járás: 52.3% 46.0% 46.0%
No digital activity at all (over 6) country: 17.4%county: 21.9%járás: 22.5% 19.6% 19.6%
Half-comfort, no-comfort or emergency dwelling country: 3.2%county: 5.1%járás: 5.2% 13.8% 13.8%
Households where everyone is over 65 country: 22.6%county: 24.4%járás: 23.6% 19.5% 19.5%

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

1 of the 1 serving districts are vacant today; it is near certain that one of them will still be vacant in a year.

88%

Dental care

The district serving this settlement is vacant today; 88% chance it still will be in 12 months.

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.

Pásztói járás a year from now

6.1GP districts expected vacant in 12 months; 5 of 19 today

now5
in 12 months 6.1

Expected: 1.4 districts falling vacant and 0.3 filled; the 90% band is 4.1–8.2. A forecast, not a promise: from the past risk of filled districts and the past refill pace of vacant ones.

Avoidable mortality in Pásztói járás: 473 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.

Pharmacy

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

Only vacant districts serve it.

Served by 0 staffed and 1 vacant or dissolved districts.

A district has its seat here.

Dental care

Only vacant districts serve it.

Served by 0 staffed and 1 vacant or dissolved districts.

A district has its seat here.

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 2
NEAK codeBranchDistrictStatusSinceSeat
120096058 dental mixed dissolved January 2026 (< 1 year) here
120091121 GP mixed persistently vacant March 2013 (13 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 1 1 territorial · 0 school
AddressProviderServices
3044 Szirák, Petőfi út 35/A Nógrád Vármegyei Szent Lázár Kórház, Salgótarján 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 6.3 min Vanyarc
Dental surgery 12.9 min Zagyvaszántó
Central on-call service 19.9 min Pásztó
Ambulance station 7.4 min Héhalom
Hospital 20.4 min Pásztó
Outpatient clinic 20.6 min Pásztó
Medical aids 12.3 min Bercel
Pharmacy 0.1 min here
Emergency department 22.3 min Hatvan
CareDriveStraight lineWhere
GP surgery6.3 min 6 km Vanyarc
Dental surgery12.9 min 8.9 km Zagyvaszántó
Central on-call service19.9 min 15.9 km Pásztó
Ambulance station7.4 min 6.6 km Héhalom
Hospital20.4 min 16.5 km Pásztó
Outpatient clinic20.6 min 15.8 km Pásztó
Medical aids12.3 min 10.6 km Bercel
Pharmacy0.1 min 0.1 km here
Emergency department22.3 min 20.7 km Hatvan

Pharmacy

PharmacyAddress
Cédrus 3044 Szirák, Hősök Tere 12

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?

43 departures on the reference day
34 settlements reachable without a change
✓ GP · 5 min Vanyarc
✓ on-call · 33 min Pásztó
✓ hospital · 33 min Pásztó

On an average Wednesday there are 43 scheduled departures from the settlement, and 34 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.

69.4

0 — the best-placed settlement100 — the worst

Szirák ranks 392 of 3,177 settlements — better placed than 87.7% of the country.

69.4

high risk

Ranked 392 highest of the country's 3,177 settlements on the composite care-risk index.

Where does this settlement stand?

This settlement is part of a contiguous care desert (around Kálló: 6 settlements, 4,459 residents).

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
120096058 dental mixed district dissolved here January 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.