Tiszakécske District

Tiszakécske District Tiszakécskei járás
Districts of Hungary
Coat of arms
Tiszakécske District within Hungary and Bács-Kiskun County.
Coordinates: 46.94°N 20.10°E / 46.94; 20.10
Country	Hungary
County	Bács-Kiskun
District seat	Tiszakécske
Area
• Total	405.99 km^2 (156.75 sq mi)
• Rank	11th in Bács-Kiskun
Population  (2011 census)
• Total	23,582
• Rank	8th in Bács-Kiskun
• Density	58/km^2 (150/sq mi)

Tiszakécske (Hungarian: Tiszakécskei járás) is a district in north-eastern part of Bács-Kiskun County. Tiszakécske is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Southern Great Plain Statistical Region.

Geography

Tiszakécske District borders with Nagykőrös District, Cegléd District (Pest County) and Szolnok District (Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok County) to the north, Kunszentmárton District (Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok County) to the east, Csongrád District (Csongrád County) to the southeast, Kiskunfélegyháza District to the southwest, Kecskemét District to the west. The number of the inhabited places in Tiszakécske District is 5.

Municipalities

The district has 1 town, 2 large villages and 2 villages. (ordered by population, as of 1 January 2012)[1]

• Lakitelek (4,452)
• Szentkirály (1,940)
• Tiszaalpár (4,907)
• Tiszakécske (11,237) – district seat
• Tiszaug (899)

The bolded municipality is city, italics municipalities are large villages.

Demographics

Religion in Tiszakécske District (2011 census)

  Catholic Church (51.7%)

  Greek Catholicism (0.2%)

  Calvinism (10.1%)

  Lutheranism (0.2%)

  Other religions (1.1%)

  Non-religious (13.3%)

  Atheists (0.7%)

  Undeclared (22.7%)

In 2011, it had a population of 23,582 and the population density was 58/km^2.

Year	County population[2]	Change
2011	23,582	n/a

Ethnicity

Besides the Hungarian majority, the main minorities are the Roma (approx. 450), German (200) and Romanian (100).

Total population (2011 census): 23,582
Ethnic groups (2011 census):[3] Identified themselves: 21,882 persons:

• Hungarians: 20,957 (95.77%)
• Gypsies: 429 (1.96%)
• Others and indefinable: 496 (2.27%)

Approx. 1,500 persons in Tiszakécske District did not declare their ethnic group at the 2011 census.

Religion

Religious adherence in the county according to 2011 census:[4]

• Catholic – 12,252 (Roman Catholic – 12,200; Greek Catholic – 50);
• Reformed – 2,387;
• Evangelical – 52;
• other religions – 258;
• Non-religious – 3,146;
• Atheism – 173;
• Undeclared – 5,314.

Gallery

• 
  Tiszakécske, the district seat
• 
  Tőserdő near Lakitelek
• 
  Earthfort of Tiszaalpár
• 
  Holy Trinity Church in Tiszakécske

See also

• List of cities and towns of Hungary

References

1. A KSH 2012. évi helységnévkönyve
2. népesség.com, "Tiszakécskei járás népessége"
3. 4.1.6.1 A népesség nemzetiség szerint, 2011, (in Hungarian) [1]
4. 4.1.7.1 A népesség vallás, felekezet szerint, 2011, (in Hungarian) [2]

External links

• Postal codes of the Tiszakécske District