Kőszeg District

Kőszeg District Kőszegi járás
Districts of Hungary
Coat of arms
Kőszeg District within Hungary and Vas County.
Country	Hungary
County	Vas
District seat	Kőszeg
Area
• Total	286.45 km2 (110.60 sq mi)
• Rank	6th in Vas
Population  (2011 census)
• Total	25,090
• Rank	4th in Vas
• Density	88/km2 (230/sq mi)

Kőszeg (Hungarian: Kőszegi járás) is a district in north-western part of Vas County. Kőszeg is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Western Transdanubia Statistical Region.

Geography

Kőszeg District borders with Sopron District (Győr-Moson-Sopron County) to the northeast, Sárvár District to the east, Szombathely District to the south, the Austrian state of Burgenland to the west and north. The number of the inhabited places in Kőszeg District is 21.

Municipalities

The district has 3 towns and 18 villages. (ordered by population, as of 1 January 2013)

• Bozsok (343)
• Bük (3,454)
• Cák (285)
• Csepreg (3,275)
• Gyöngyösfalu (1,144)
• Horvátzsidány (808)
• Iklanberény (46)
• Kiszsidány (87)
• Kőszeg (11,628) – district seat
• Kőszegdoroszló (243)
• Kőszegpaty (208)
• Kőszegszerdahely (459)
• Lócs (128)
• Lukácsháza (1,055)
• Nemescsó (283)
• Ólmod (101)
• Peresznye (841)
• Pusztacsó (149)
• Tormásliget (317)
• Tömörd (282)
• Velem (337)

The bolded municipalities are cities.

Demographics

Religion in Kőszeg District (2011 census)

  Catholic Church (56.9%)

  Greek Catholicism (0.1%)

  Lutheranism (6.9%)

  Calvinism (1.7%)

  Other religions (0.8%)

  Non-religious (5.4%)

  Atheists (0.7%)

  Undeclared (27.5%)

In 2011, it had a population of 25,090 and the population density was 88/km².

Year	County population	Change
2011	25,090	n/a

Ethnicity

Besides the Hungarian majority, the main minorities are the Croat and German (approx. 1,100) and Roma (200).

Total population (2011 census): 25,090
Ethnic groups (2011 census): Identified themselves: 23,694 persons:

• Hungarians: 21,052 (88.85%)
• Croats: 1,108 (4.68%)
• Germans: 1,062 (4.48%)
• Others and indefinable: 472 (1.99%)

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

Religion

Religious adherence in the county according to 2011 census:

• Catholic – 14,300 (Roman Catholic – 14,275; Greek Catholic – 23);
• Evangelical – 1,722;
• Reformed – 424;
• other religions – 214;
• Non-religious – 1,365;
• Atheism – 175;
• Undeclared – 6,890.

See also

• List of cities and towns in Hungary

External links

• Postal codes of the Kőszeg District