Budakeszi District

Budakeszi District Budakeszi járás
Districts of Hungary
Coat of arms
Budakeszi District within Hungary and Pest County.
Country	Hungary
County	Pest
District seat	Budakeszi
Area
• Total	288.95 km2 (111.56 sq mi)
• Rank	12th in Pest
Population  (2011 census)
• Total	83,670
• Rank	5th in Pest
• Density	290/km2 (800/sq mi)

Budakeszi (Hungarian: Budakeszi járás) is a district in western part of Pest County. Budakeszi is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Central Hungary Statistical Region.

Geography

Budakeszi District borders with Pilisvörösvár District to the north, Budapest to the east, Érd District to the south, Bicske District (Fejér County) to the west, Tatabánya District (Komárom-Esztergom County) to the northwest. The number of the inhabited places in Budakeszi District is 12.

Municipalities

The district has 4 towns, 1 large village and 7 villages. (ordered by population, as of 1 January 2013)

• Biatorbágy (12,638)
• Budajenő (1,858)
• Budakeszi (13,707) – district seat
• Budaörs (27,306)
• Herceghalom (2,174)
• Nagykovácsi (6,912)
• Páty (6,974)
• Perbál (2,078)
• Remeteszőlős (755)
• Telki (3,707)
• Tök (1,338)
• Zsámbék (5,199)

The municipalities in bold are cities, the municipality in italics is a large village.

Demographics

Religion in Budakeszi District (2011 census)

  Catholic Church (34.4%)

  Greek Catholicism (1.1%)

  Calvinism (11.6%)

  Lutheranism (1.4%)

  Orthodoxy (0.1%)

  Judaism (0.2%)

  Other religions (2.3%)

  Non-religious (17.5%)

  Atheists (2.5%)

  Undeclared (28.9%)

In 2011, it had a population of 83,670 and the population density was 290/km².

Year	County population	Change
2011	83,670	n/a

Ethnicity

Besides Hungarian majority, the main minorities are the German (approx. 3,700), Roma and Romanian (400), Russian (250) and Slovak (150).

Total population (2011 census): 83,670
Ethnic groups (2011 census): Identified themselves: 79,752 persons:

• Hungarians: 72,343 (90.71%)
• Germans: 3,702 (4.64%)
• Others and indefinable: 3,707 (4.64%)

Approx. 4,000 persons in Budakeszi District did not declare their ethnic group at the 2011 census.

Religion

Religious adherence in the county according to 2011 census:

• Catholic – 29,681 (Roman Catholic – 28,763; Greek Catholic – 904);
• Reformed – 9,708;
• Evangelical – 1,160;
• Orthodox – 123;
• Judaism – 164;
• other religions – 1,934;
• Non-religious – 14,614;
• Atheism – 2,060;
• Undeclared – 24,226.

Gallery

• 
  Downtown of Budakeszi
• 
  Aerial view of Budaörs
• 
  Zsámbék Premontre monastery church
• 
  Panorama of Nagykovácsi

See also

• List of cities and towns in Hungary

External links

• Postal codes of the Budakeszi District