Bácsalmás District

Bácsalmás District Bácsalmási járás
Districts of Hungary
Coat of arms
Country	Hungary
County	Bács-Kiskun
District seat	Bácsalmás
Area
• Total	561.71 km2 (216.88 sq mi)
• Rank	8th in Bács-Kiskun
Population  (2011 census)
• Total	20,094
• Rank	9th in Bács-Kiskun
• Density	52/km2 (130/sq mi)

Bácsalmás (Hungarian: Bácsalmási járás; German: Kreis Almasch) is a district in southern part of Bács-Kiskun County. Bácsalmás 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

Bácsalmás District borders with Jánoshalma District and Kiskunhalas District to the north, the Serbian districts of North Bačka to the east and West Bačka to the south, Baja District to the west and north. The number of the inhabited places in Bácsalmás District is 10.

Municipalities

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

• Bácsalmás (6,811) – district seat
• Bácsbokod (2,656)
• Bácsborsód (1,179)
• Bácsszőlős (349)
• Csikéria (868)
• Katymár (1,951)
• Kunbaja (1,562)
• Madaras (2,903)
• Mátételke (476)
• Tataháza (1,228)

The bolded municipality is city, italics municipality is large village.

Demographics

Religion in Bácsalmás District (2011 census)

  Catholic Church (59.8%)

  Greek Catholicism (0.1%)

  Calvinism (5.2%)

  Lutheranism (0.2%)

  Other religions (0.9%)

  Non-religious (10.0%)

  Atheists (0.7%)

  Undeclared (23.1%)

In 2011, it had a population of 20,094 and the population density was 38/km².

Year	County population	Change
2011	20,094	n/a

Ethnicity

Besides the Hungarian majority, the main minorities are the German (approx. 1,100), Croat (550), Roma (300) and Serb (100).

Total population (2011 census): 20,094
Ethnic groups (2011 census): Identified themselves: 19,600 persons:

• Hungarians: 17,512 (89.35%)
• Germans: 1,062 (5.42%)
• Croats: 568 (2.90%)
• Gypsies: 291 (1.48%)
• Others and indefinable: 167 (0.85%)

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

Religion

Religious adherence in the county according to 2011 census:

• Catholic – 12,041 (Roman Catholic – 12,019; Greek Catholic – 21);
• Reformed – 1,048;
• Evangelical – 36;
• other religions – 169;
• Non-religious – 2,016;
• Atheism – 138;
• Undeclared – 4,646.

Gallery

• 
  Bácsalmás, the district seat
• 
  Latinovits Mansion in Bácsborsód
• 
  Bácsbokod-Bácsborsód railway station
• 
  Windmill near Tataháza

See also

• List of cities and towns of Hungary

External links

• Postal codes of the Bácsalmás District