Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg · Mátészalkai district · population 904 · beneficiary settlement
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.
Bar lengths are measured against the settlement's largest group.
Of a hundred residents, this many fall into each age group. Hover or click: the centre of the pie shows the exact number.
Source: KSH, 2022 census (CC BY 4.0). The shares above refer to the census population of 906; the 904 at the top of the page comes from KSH's latest gazetteer, so the two differ.
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.
1.28 m Fta year, 2024
327 in every 1,000 residents pay personal income tax.
3.9%24 registered jobseekers of 622 of working age, September 2026
25% of them have been looking for over a year.
+0.6‰per 1,000 residents, 2022–2025 average
Births minus deaths. A negative number means more people die than are born.
−13.6‰per 1,000 residents, 2022–2025 average
People moving in minus people moving out, within the country. A negative number means more leave than arrive.
23,470a year, 2025
Surgery visits, home visits and telemedicine together. Where districts nearby are empty, the remaining doctors carry more.
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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.
The district serving this settlement is vacant today; 77% chance it still will be in 12 months.
5% chance that the district serving this settlement is vacant 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.
6.7GP districts expected vacant in 12 months; 6 of 37 today
Expected: 1.1 districts falling vacant and 0.5 filled; the 90% band is 4.7–8.7. A forecast, not a promise: from the past risk of filled districts and the past refill pace of vacant ones.
Avoidable mortality in Mátészalkai járás: 544 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.
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 surgery
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.
Only vacant districts serve it.
Served by 0 staffed and 1 vacant or dissolved districts.
A district has its seat here.
Has a staffed district.
Served by 1 staffed and 0 vacant or dissolved districts.
4351 Vállaj, Szabadság tér 1. 1 doctors
Dr. Gariscsák Emese 1 districts
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.
| NEAK code | Branch | District | Status | Since | Seat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 150090245 | GP | mixed | persistently vacant | July 2025 (1 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
| Address | Provider | Services |
|---|---|---|
| 4351 Vállaj, Temető utca 8 | Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg Vármegyei Oktatókh. | 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.)
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.
| Care | Drive | Straight line | Where |
|---|---|---|---|
| GP surgery | 8.9 min | 8.4 km | Fábiánháza |
| Dental surgery | 0 min | 0 km | here |
| Central on-call service | 18.7 min | 20.2 km | Nyírbátor |
| Ambulance station | 19.2 min | 20.7 km | Nyírbátor |
| Hospital | 21.3 min | 21.9 km | Mátészalka |
| Outpatient clinic | 19.8 min | 20.4 km | Nyírbátor |
| Medical aids | 18.7 min | 15.8 km | Nyírbátor |
| Pharmacy | 1.2 min | 1.5 km | Mérk |
| Emergency department | 21.3 min | 21.9 km | Mátészalka |
There is no contracted pharmacy in the settlement. The nearest is in Mérk, 1.2 min by car.
On an average Wednesday there are 25 scheduled departures from the settlement, and 9 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.
0 — the best-placed settlement100 — the worst
Vállaj ranks 470 of 3,177 settlements — better placed than 85.2% of the country.
high risk
Ranked 470 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 Mérk: 3 settlements, 3,663 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.
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.