Pilisvörösvár District

Pilisvörösvár (Hungarian: Pilisvörösvári járás; German: Kreis Werischwar) is a district in north-western part of Pest County. Pilisvörösvár is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Central Hungary Statistical Region.

Pilisvörösvár District Pilisvörösvári járás
Districts of Hungary
Coat of arms
Pilisvörösvár District within Hungary and Pest County.
Country	Hungary
County	Pest
District seat	Pilisvörösvár
Area
• Total	130.81 km^2 (50.51 sq mi)
• Rank	16th in Pest
Population  (2011 census)
• Total	53,201
• Rank	11th in Pest
• Density	407/km^2 (1,050/sq mi)

Geography

Pilisvörösvár District borders with Szentendre District to the northeast, Budapest to the southeast, Budakeszi District to the south, Esztergom District (Komárom-Esztergom County) to the northwest. The number of the inhabited places in Pilisvörösvár District is 9.

Municipalities

The district has 2 towns, 1 large village and 6 villages. (ordered by population, as of 1 January 2013)^[1]

• Pilisborosjenő (3,481)
• Piliscsaba (7,950)
• Pilisjászfalu (1,571)
• Pilisszántó (2,865)
• Pilisszentiván (3,481)
• Pilisvörösvár (13,838) – district seat
• Solymár (9,901)
• Tinnye (1,604)
• Üröm (4,165)

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

Demographics

Religion in Pilisvörösvár District (2011 census)

  Catholic Church (44.1%)

  Greek Catholicism (0.7%)

  Calvinism (8.1%)

  Lutheranism (1.2%)

  Orthodoxy (0.2%)

  Judaism (0.1%)

  Other religions (2.2%)

  Non-religious (14.2%)

  Atheists (1.8%)

  Undeclared (27.4%)

In 2011, it had a population of 53,201 and the population density was 407/km².

Year	County population^[2]	Change
2011	53,201	n/a

Ethnicity

Besides Hungarian majority, the main minorities are the German (approx. 7,000), Slovak (1,100), Roma (500), Russian and Romanian (150).

Total population (2011 census): 53,201
Ethnic groups (2011 census):^[3] Identified themselves: 56,661 persons:

• Hungarians: 46,448 (81.98%)
• Germans: 7,231 (12.76%)
• Slovaks: 1,097 (1.94%)
• Others and indefinable: 1,885 (3.33%)

Approx. 3,500 persons in Pilisvörösvár District did declare more than one ethnic group at the 2011 census.

Religion

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

• Catholic – 23,848 (Roman Catholic – 23,458; Greek Catholic – 384);
• Reformed – 4,318;
• Evangelical – 652;
• Orthodox – 78;
• Judaism – 76;
• other religions – 1,153;
• Non-religious – 7,577;
• Atheism – 979;
• Undeclared – 14,520.

Gallery

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  Downtown of Pilisvörösvár
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  Panorama of Solymár
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  Pázmány Péter Catholic University in Piliscsaba
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  Aerial view of Pilisszántó

See also

• List of cities and towns in Hungary

References

1. A KSH 2013. évi helységnévkönyve
2. népesség.com, "Pilisvörösvári 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 Pilisvörösvár District

47°37′00″N 18°55′00″E / 47.6167°N 18.9167°E / 47.6167; 18.9167