Zala · Zalaegerszegi district · population 936

Zalaszentmihály

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?

Zalaegerszeg Nagykanizsa Keszthely Lenti Zalaszentgrót Letenye Pacsa · gp 4.1 min · dentist 4.1 min · pharmacy 4.2 min Zalaegerszeg · central on-call 17 min · hospital 15 min Zalaszentmihály
Zala county, Zalaegerszegi 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: 100 (10.8%) aged 15–64: 576 (62.4%) over 65: 247 (26.8%) 10.8% 100 people 62.4% 576 people 26.8% 247 people hover
Zalaszentmihály: age groups
over 65 · men: 101 (40.9% of the group) over 65 · women: 146 (59.1% of the group) over 65 101 146 aged 15–64 · men: 304 (52.8% of the group) aged 15–64 · women: 272 (47.2% of the group) aged 15–64 304 272 aged 0–14 · men: 47 (47.0% of the group) aged 0–14 · women: 53 (53.0% of the group) aged 0–14 47 53
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 10.8% −3.7%
aged 15–64 62.4% −2.5%
over 65 26.8% +6.1%

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

43 older people (over 65) / 100 of working age 32 nationally
17 children (aged 0–14) / 100 of working age
247 older people — ageing index / 100 children more older people than children
51.0% of residents are women 452 men · 471 women

Source: KSH, 2022 census (CC BY 4.0). The shares above refer to the census population of 923; the 936 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

2.24 m Fta year, 2024

Zalaszentmihály 2.24 m Ft
Zala 2.47 m Ft
median settlement 2.22 m Ft

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

Share of jobseekers

5.0%29 registered jobseekers of 578 of working age, September 2026

Zalaszentmihály 5.0%
Zala 3.6%
country 3.6%

24% of them have been looking for over a year.

3%6% 2020202120222023202420252026

Births and deaths

−7.5‰per 1,000 residents, 2022–2025 average

Zalaszentmihály −7.5‰
Zala −8.5‰
median settlement −4.8‰

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

Moving in and out

+0.0‰per 1,000 residents, 2022–2025 average

Zalaszentmihály +0.0‰
Zala +0.9‰
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

11,827a year, 2025

Zalaszentmihály 11,827

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: 18.8%járás: 21.1% 12.3% 12.3%
Employed, of those over 15 country: 57.5%county: 54.0%járás: 57.0% 52.3% 52.3%
No digital activity at all (over 6) country: 17.4%county: 20.4%járás: 18.6% 21.9% 21.9%
Half-comfort, no-comfort or emergency dwelling country: 3.2%county: 2.8%járás: 2.4% 4.8% 4.8%
Households where everyone is over 65 country: 22.6%county: 24.9%járás: 23.9% 25.9% 25.9%

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?

87%

GP care

The district serving this settlement is vacant today; 87% 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.

Zalaegerszegi járás a year from now

12.1GP districts expected vacant in 12 months; 11 of 57 today

now11
in 12 months 12.1

Expected: 2.5 districts falling vacant and 1.4 filled; the 90% band is 9.0–15.2. A forecast, not a promise: from the past risk of filled districts and the past refill pace of vacant ones.

Avoidable mortality in Zalaegerszegi járás: 412 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

Only vacant districts serve it.

Served by 0 staffed and 1 vacant or dissolved districts.

A district has its seat here.

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.

Vacant and dissolved districts that serve this settlement 1
NEAK codeBranchDistrictStatusSinceSeat
200090076 GP mixed vacant August 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.

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 Pacsa, 4.1 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
8936 Zalaszentmihály, Iskola utca 1. Zala Vármegyei Szent Rafael 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 4.1 min Pacsa
Dental surgery 4.1 min Pacsa
Central on-call service 17.3 min Zalaegerszeg
Ambulance station 5.1 min Pacsa
Hospital 14.8 min Zalaegerszeg
Outpatient clinic 14.8 min Zalaegerszeg
Medical aids 14.8 min Zalaegerszeg
Pharmacy 4.2 min Pacsa
Emergency department 14.8 min Zalaegerszeg
CareDriveStraight lineWhere
GP surgery4.1 min 4.6 km Pacsa
Dental surgery4.1 min 4.6 km Pacsa
Central on-call service17.3 min 14.5 km Zalaegerszeg
Ambulance station5.1 min 5.1 km Pacsa
Hospital14.8 min 12.4 km Zalaegerszeg
Outpatient clinic14.8 min 12.4 km Zalaegerszeg
Medical aids14.8 min 12.4 km Zalaegerszeg
Pharmacy4.2 min 4.7 km Pacsa
Emergency department14.8 min 12.4 km Zalaegerszeg

Pharmacy

There is no contracted pharmacy in the settlement. The nearest is in Pacsa, 4.2 min by car.

Can you get there by bus?

42 departures on the reference day
40 settlements reachable without a change
✓ GP · 5 min Pacsa
✓ on-call · 21 min Zalaegerszeg
✓ hospital · 21 min Zalaegerszeg

On an average Wednesday there are 42 scheduled departures from the settlement, and 40 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.

64.7

0 — the best-placed settlement100 — the worst

Zalaszentmihály ranks 607 of 3,177 settlements — better placed than 80.9% of the country.

64.7

high risk

Ranked 607 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 Zalaszentmihály: 4 settlements, 2,048 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
200090076 GP mixed district fell vacant here 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.