Szentendre District

Szentendre District Szentendrei járás
Districts of Hungary
Coat of arms
Szentendre District within Hungary and Pest County.
Country	Hungary
County	Pest
District seat	Szentendre
Area
• Total	326.58 km2 (126.09 sq mi)
• Rank	10th in Pest
Population  (2011 census)
• Total	77,802
• Rank	7th in Pest
• Density	238/km2 (620/sq mi)

Szentendre (Template:Lang-hu) is a district in north-western part of Pest County. Szentendre is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Central Hungary Statistical Region.

Geography

Szentendre District borders with Szob District to the north, Vác District and Dunakeszi District to the east, Budapest to the south, Pilisvörösvár District to the southwest, Esztergom District (Komárom-Esztergom County) to the west. The district includes the whole of Szentendre Island in the Danube. The number of the inhabited places in Szentendre District is 13.

Municipalities

The district has 4 towns, 1 large village and 8 villages. (ordered by population, as of 1 January 2013)

• Budakalász (10,450)
• Csobánka (3,178)
• Dunabogdány (3,113)
• Kisoroszi (946)
• Leányfalu (3,483)
• Pilisszentkereszt (2,193)
• Pilisszentlászló (1,193)
• Pócsmegyer (1,919)
• Pomáz (16,445)
• Szentendre (25,274) – district seat
• Szigetmonostor (2,235)
• Tahitótfalu (5,496)
• Visegrád (1,795)

The bolded municipalities are cities, italics municipality is large village.

Demographics

Religion in Szentendre District (2011 census)

  Catholic Church (36.4%)

  Greek Catholicism (0.9%)

  Calvinism (11.9%)

  Lutheranism (1.2%)

  Orthodoxy (0.5%)

  Judaism (0.2%)

  Other religions (2.2%)

  Non-religious (16.5%)

  Atheists (2.1%)

  Undeclared (28.1%)

In 2011, it had a population of 77,802 and the population density was 238/km².

Year	County population	Change
2011	77,802	n/a

Ethnicity

Besides the Hungarian majority, the main minorities are the German (approx. 2,500), Slovak (1,100), Roma (1,000), Serb (450), Romanian (300), Russian and Polish (150), Croat (100).

Total population (2011 census): 77,802
Ethnic groups (2011 census): Identified themselves: 75,440 persons:

• Hungarians: 68,057 (90.21%)
• Germans: 2,585 (3.43%)
• Slovaks: 1,093 (1.45%)
• Gypsies: 1,030 (1.36%)
• Others and indefinable: 2,675 (3.55%)

Approx. 2,500 persons in Szentendre District did not declare their ethnic group at the 2011 census.

Religion

Religious adherence in the county according to 2011 census:

• Catholic – 29,034 (Roman Catholic – 28,351; Greek Catholic – 665);
• Reformed – 9,305;
• Evangelical – 959;
• Orthodox – 354;
• Judaism – 128;
• other religions – 1,744;
• Non-religious – 12,811;
• Atheism – 1,607;
• Undeclared – 21,860.

Gallery

• 
  Downtown of Szentendre
• 
  Visegrád Castle
• 
  Teleki–Wattay Mansion in Pomáz
• 
  Panorama of Csobánka

See also

• List of cities and towns in Hungary

External links

• Postal codes of the Szentendre District