Living in Paks

In Paks, unemployment is 3.3% (2022).

Paks numbered 17,417 residents at the end of 2022. Paks's unemployment stood at 3.3% at the end of 2022. A foreign population count of 408 was recorded at the end of 2022.

Last checked 2026-10-0719 sources

Population17,417people31 Dec 2022Official source · Hungarian Central Statistical Office (KSH), 2022 Census database

Average gross salary1,667EUR/month31 Dec 2025District figureOfficial source · KSH STADAT 20.1.2.7 — Average gross earnings of full-time employees by location of employer head office, counties and regions

Average net rent3.88EUR/m²/month31 Oct 2018Regional figureOfficial source · Magánlakásbérlés, bérleti díjak – a 2018. évi lakbérfelmérés főbb eredményei

Unemployment rate3.3%country median 4.6% — 29% belowOfficial source · Hungarian Central Statistical Office (KSH), 2022 Census database

Recorded crime1,876incidents per 100,00031 Dec 2025District figureOfficial source · 11.1.2.1. Registered crimes by county and region

Which Hungary-wide rules apply when you move to Paks?

National rules stay on the country page instead of being relabelled as city data.

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Housing and cost

A vacancy rate of 11.17% was recorded at the end of 2022. Paks recorded 8,547 dwellings at the end of 2022.

What recurs every month2 published recurring costs, € per month

€ / month

Internet, 60 Mbps€26

Mobile plan, 10 GB€18

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Internet, 60 Mbps unlimited	26.04 EUR/month	30 Sept 2026	Telekom home internet¹³Official · national market
Mobile plan, 10 GB	17.81 EUR/month	30 Sept 2026	Telekom Domino Next¹²Official · national market
Housing vacancy rate (legacy series)	11.17 %	31 Dec 2022	Hungarian Central Statistical Office (KSH)³Official
Dwellings	8,547 dwellings	31 Dec 2022	Hungarian Central Statistical Office (KSH)⁴Official
Average net rent (nettokalt)	3.88 EUR/m²/month	31 Oct 2018	Magánlakásbérlés, bérleti díjak – a 2018. évi lakbérfelmérés főbb eredményei¹⁰Official · regional context
Average monthly rent (whole dwelling)	181.9 EUR/month	31 Oct 2018	Magánlakásbérlés, bérleti díjak – a 2018. évi lakbérfelmérés főbb eredményei¹⁰Official · regional context

Is Paks a good place to live?

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Remote worker58%strong on work, weak on air quality · range 47–69%

Skilled employee65%strong on work, weak on safety · range 56–74%

Student52%strong on education, weak on work · range 42–62%

Family55%strong on family, weak on cost · range 44–66%

Retirement52%strong on safety, weak on admin · range 38–66%

Work and income

What is the unemployment rate in Paks?

The unemployment rate is about 3.3 % (2022). Source: Hungarian Central Statistical Office (KSH), 2022 Census database⁸

Unemployment across cities in HungaryUnemployment in Paks is 3.3%. Of 277 cities with data, 124 have unemployment of 4 to under 6%.

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Paks 3.3%

Unemployment rate (%)

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Average gross earnings	1,667 EUR/month	31 Dec 2025	KSH STADAT 20.1.2.7 — Average gross earnings of full-time employees by location of employer head office, counties and regions⁹Official · county
Unemployment rate	3.3 %country median 4.6%	31 Dec 2022	Hungarian Central Statistical Office (KSH), 2022 Census database⁸Official

What does a salary buy in Paks?

Take-home pay after tax, minus rent and the everyday bills this city publishes. Each line names its source.

Left over each month€395of €672 take-home

Rent
Internet
Mobile
Left over

Line-by-line breakdown and sources

Each month	€
Take-home payOECD Taxing Wages 2025, single, no children. Includes central and local income tax and employee social contributions; euro amounts at the ECB average for 2026-08.	€672
Rent, 60 m²€3.88/m² · official · Magánlakásbérlés, bérleti díjak – a 2018. évi lakbérfelmérés főbb eredményei · 2018-10-31	− €233
Internet€26 · official · Telekom home internet · 2026-09-30	− €26
Mobile plan€18 · official · Telekom Domino Next · 2026-09-30	− €18
Other everyday billsnot published for this city: public transport pass, utilities	—
Left overbefore the bills this city does not publish	€395

Take-home pay for other salaries and households Compare with another city Check a job offer in Paks Salary needed to live in Paks

Public employment service

No exact public employment office is currently linked to Paks. The verified national service may still offer online registration, job search or an official office finder.

Country-level information

National Employment Service — Public employment service

National Employment Service of Hungary

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Country-level service information is not treated as proof of a physical office in Paks. Sources checked through 10 Aug 2026.

Safety

How safe is Paks?

Police recorded about 1,876 incidents per 100,000 (2025). This counts all offences, so it is not comparable with a violent-crime-only rate from another source. Source: 11.1.2.1. Registered crimes by county and region¹

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Recorded incidents per 100,000 residents	1,876 incidents per 100,000	31 Dec 2025	11.1.2.1. Registered crimes by county and region¹Official · county

Mobility and administration

Paks's nearest major airport was 85 km away.

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Distance to the nearest major airport	85 km	3 Aug 2026	OurAirports¹¹Official
Nearest major airport (IATA code)	PEV	3 Aug 2026	OurAirports¹¹Official

Language courses and integration

No exact city-level course record is currently published for Paks. These verified national programmes may still apply; use the official programme page to check local availability.

Country-level information

Care and integration support for persons granted international or national protection — Newcomer Adaptation

National Directorate-General for Aliens Policing — Refugee Affairs Directorate

For persons granted international protection, persons granted national protection.

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Climate and air quality

Monthly mean temperatures were 0.1°C in January and 21.9°C in July. Paks's monthly precipitation totalled 33.4 mm in January and 68.5 mm in July.

Temperature through the yearAverage daytime high and night-time low, °C

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4°-3°

7°-3°

12°1°

19°5°

23°10°

27°13°

29°15°

29°14°

23°10°

18°6°

10°2°

4°-2°

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Night-time low to daytime high

Rainfall through the yearAverage monthly precipitation, mm

JFMAMJJASOND

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Average daytime high by month	Jan 3.9 · Feb 6.7 · Mar 12.2 · Apr 18.6 · May 23.3 · Jun 27 · Jul 29.1 · Aug 29.1 · Sep 23.3 · Oct 17.6 · Nov 10.4 · Dec 4.2 °C	31 Dec 1991	World Meteorological Organization / NOAA NCEI¹⁴Official · nearest-station reading
Average night-time low by month	Jan -3.3 · Feb -2.6 · Mar 0.6 · Apr 4.9 · May 9.7 · Jun 13.3 · Jul 14.8 · Aug 14.4 · Sep 10.2 · Oct 5.6 · Nov 1.8 · Dec -2.1 °C	31 Dec 1991	World Meteorological Organization / NOAA NCEI¹⁴Official · nearest-station reading
Average temperature by month	Jan 0.1 · Feb 1.7 · Mar 6.2 · Apr 11.8 · May 16.4 · Jun 20.1 · Jul 21.9 · Aug 21.5 · Sep 16.2 · Oct 10.9 · Nov 5.8 · Dec 0.9 °C	31 Dec 1991	World Meteorological Organization / NOAA NCEI¹⁴Official · nearest-station reading
Average precipitation by month	Jan 33.4 · Feb 38.3 · Mar 32.2 · Apr 36.7 · May 59.4 · Jun 64.9 · Jul 68.5 · Aug 58.3 · Sep 61.6 · Oct 52.2 · Nov 50.8 · Dec 47.2 mm	31 Dec 1991	World Meteorological Organization / NOAA NCEI¹⁴Official · nearest-station reading

Similar climate. In Hungary: Kecskemét ±0.6 °C. Elsewhere: Arad (Romania) ±0.5 °C, Timișoara (Romania) ±0.9 °C, Cottbus (Germany) ±1.7 °C, Craiova (Romania) ±1.0 °C, Hoyerswerda (Germany) ±1.9 °C. Twenty closest, compared month by month

Monthly highs and lows against the 1991–2020 station normals of the nearest station; ± is the average monthly difference.

Population and city profile

How many people live in Paks?

The published population was 17,417 people in 2022. Source: Hungarian Central Statistical Office (KSH), 2022 Census database⁸

Who lives hereResidents by nationality, % of population

By nationality

National passport97.7%

Calculated from the population and foreign-resident facts on this page.

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Foreign residents	408 people	31 Dec 2022	Hungarian Central Statistical Office (KSH)²Official
Population	17,417 people	31 Dec 2022	Hungarian Central Statistical Office (KSH), 2022 Census database⁸Official

People and communities

The other-or-no-religion share in Paks was 14.4%.

Metric	Value	Period	Source
No religion or other, share	14.4 %	31 Dec 2022	Hungarian Central Statistical Office (KSH)⁶Official

International community in Paks

Named groups from exact city-grain official distributions. Citizenship, birthplace, language and ancestry answer different questions and stay separate.

Citizenship

Population enumerated in the 2022 Hungarian Census; settlement data, population; all sexes and ages as source table defines · 2022 Census

Published group	People	Share
Citizenship	17,417	100.0%
Citizen of Hungary	17,009	97.7%
Foreign national	408	2.3%
Non-EU foreign national	346	2.0%
EU foreign national	62	0.4%

Largest published groups; zero-count groups are omitted. Dimensions are source-native and are never merged. Official source⁷

Language spoken at home

Population enumerated in the 2022 Hungarian Census; settlement data, population; all sexes and ages as source table defines · 2022 Census

Published group	People	Share
Language spoken with family members or friends	17,417	100.0%
Hungarian language spoken with family members or friends	15,083	86.6%
No answer to question about language spoken with family members or friends	2,111	12.1%
Other language spoken with family members or friends	626	3.6%
Language spoken with family members or friends by domestic ethnic groups	219	1.3%
German language spoken with family members or friends	95	0.5%
Ruthenian language spoken with family members or friends	41	0.2%
Gipsy (Romani, Boyash) language spoken with family members or friends	38	0.2%
Gipsy (Romani) language spoken with family members or friends	31	0.2%
Ukrainian language spoken with family members or friends	19	0.1%

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Published group	People	Share
Romanian language spoken with family members or friends	10	0.1%
Gipsy (Boyash) language spoken with family members or friends	7	0.0%
Armenian language spoken with family members or friends	5	0.0%
Serbian language spoken with family members or friends	4	0.0%

Largest published groups; zero-count groups are omitted. Dimensions are source-native and are never merged. Official source⁷

Ancestry or ethnicity

Population enumerated in the 2022 Hungarian Census; settlement data, population; all sexes and ages as source table defines · 2022 Census

Published group	People	Share
Ethnic groups	17,417	100.0%
Hungarian	15,045	86.4%
No answer to ethnic groups	2,050	11.8%
Domestic ethnic groups	622	3.6%
German	319	1.8%
Other ethnic groups	208	1.2%
Gipsy (Romani)	190	1.1%
Ukrainian	39	0.2%
Ruthenian	31	0.2%
Polish	11	0.1%

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Published group	People	Share
Croatian	8	0.0%
Armenian	7	0.0%
Romanian	7	0.0%
Greek	6	0.0%
Bulgarian	4	0.0%
Slovakian	4	0.0%
Serbian	3	0.0%

Largest published groups; zero-count groups are omitted. Dimensions are source-native and are never merged. Official source⁷

Additional context

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Residents with a bachelor's degree or higher	24.74 %	31 Dec 2022	Hungarian Central Statistical Office (KSH)⁵Official

Alternatives for people set on Paks

Three places for the three reasons people leave a city on the shortlist: stay in the region, stay in the country, or keep the budget and change the country. A percentage appears only where both cities publish that metric from the same source, period and grain. Distances are straight lines — travel times are not collected yet.

Veszprém as a Paks alternative in the same country

89 km away, better on 0 of 3 metrics measured the same way, worse on 0. Recorded crime, per 100k cannot be compared like for like.

Residents: 55,910 Veszprém vs 17,417 Paks+221%
Recorded crime, per 100k: 202 Veszprém vs 1,876 Paksno percentage
Rent: €3.78/m² Veszprém vs €3.88/m² Pakssame level
Unemployment: 3.3% Veszprém vs 3.3% Pakssame level

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Cities near Paks

Published cities within 25 km, nearest first. Distances are straight-line.

Alternative cities in Hungary

Other cities in Hungary to compare with Paks, nearest in population first.

All Hungary cities

Dabas17,470 residents Százhalombatta17,535 residents Pécel17,565 residents Dombóvár17,259 residents Mohács17,239 residents Szigethalom17,644 residents

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Yes — migrants can receive medical care in Paks under the national coverage rules.

Healthcare access follows the country-wide insurance rules; local capacity facts remain city data and are not used as proof of eligibility.

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Country rule verified 2026-08-03.

School for children who move here. School is compulsory from age 3 to 16, and public school is free. Newly arrived pupils get support in the school language: Hungarian as a second language (második idegen nyelvként) support programmes. How to enrol a child (kormany.hu).

A country-wide rule for Hungary; Paks's school authority applies it locally.

Sources: eurydice.eacea.ec.europa.eu · 2026.

Common questions

Answered from the published values on this page, each with its source and date.

How many people live in Paks?

The published population was 17,417 people in 2022. Source: Hungarian Central Statistical Office (KSH), 2022 Census database.

How safe is Paks?

What is the unemployment rate in Paks?

The unemployment rate is about 3.3 % (2022). Source: Hungarian Central Statistical Office (KSH), 2022 Census database.

How many foreign residents live in Paks?

408 residents hold a foreign nationality. Source: Hungarian Central Statistical Office (KSH).

Is Paks a good place to live?

Paks may suit different people for different reasons. The page's profile scores compare published cost, work, housing, safety, healthcare and other available factors; they are a decision aid, not a universal recommendation.

Which cities are near Paks?

Kalocsa, Dunaföldvár, Tolna, Solt are near Paks. Typed relationship labels are shown where published; other rows use straight-line distance from admitted coordinates.

How many people are in the Citizenship citizenship group in Paks?

The official citizenship distribution records 17,417 people (100.0%) in the source-defined population for 2022 Census. This is a citizenship measure, not a general estimate of ethnicity or migration status.

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