Living in Putnok

In Putnok, unemployment is 9.7% (2022).

Putnok numbered 6,324 residents at the end of 2022. Putnok registered an unemployment rate of 9.75% at the end of 2022. Putnok was home to 32 foreign residents at the end of 2022.

Last checked 2026-10-0724 sources

Population6,324people31 Dec 2022Official source · Hungarian Central Statistical Office (KSH), 2022 Census database

Average gross salary1,436EUR/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 rent2.66EUR/m²/month31 Oct 2018Regional figureOfficial source · Magánlakásbérlés, bérleti díjak – a 2018. évi lakbérfelmérés főbb eredményei

Unemployment rate9.75%country median 4.6% — 110% aboveOfficial source · Hungarian Central Statistical Office (KSH), 2022 Census database

Recorded crime1,877incidents per 100,00031 Dec 2025District figureOfficial source · 11.1.2.1. Registered crimes by county and region

PM2.5, annual mean18µg/m³31 Dec 2024Nearest stationOfficial source · European Environment Agency

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

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

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Housing and cost

Putnok's housing vacancy rate stood at 4.43% at the end of 2022. The city had 2,417 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 internet¹⁸Official · national market
Mobile plan, 10 GB	17.81 EUR/month	30 Sept 2026	Telekom Domino Next¹⁷Official · national market
Housing vacancy rate (legacy series)	4.43 %	31 Dec 2022	Hungarian Central Statistical Office (KSH)⁵Official
Dwellings	2,417 dwellings	31 Dec 2022	Hungarian Central Statistical Office (KSH)⁶Official
Average net rent (nettokalt)	2.66 EUR/m²/month	31 Oct 2018	Magánlakásbérlés, bérleti díjak – a 2018. évi lakbérfelmérés főbb eredményei¹²Official · regional context
Average monthly rent (whole dwelling)	141.1 EUR/month	31 Oct 2018	Magánlakásbérlés, bérleti díjak – a 2018. évi lakbérfelmérés főbb eredményei¹²Official · regional context

Is Putnok a good place to live?

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Remote worker50%strong on work, weak on air quality · range 39–61%

Skilled employee46%strong on work, weak on education · range 37–55%

Student49%strong on cost, weak on work · range 39–59%

Family42%strong on safety, weak on education · range 31–53%

Retirement58%strong on safety, weak on admin · range 44–72%

Work and income

What is the unemployment rate in Putnok?

The unemployment rate is about 9.7 % (2022).

Unemployment rate: 9.75 % · Hungarian Central Statistical Office (KSH), 2022 Census database¹⁰

Unemployment across cities in HungaryUnemployment in Putnok is 9.8%. Of 277 cities with data, 124 have unemployment of 4 to under 6%.

124

2–44–66–88–1010–1212–1424–26

Putnok 9.8%

Unemployment rate (%)

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Average gross earnings	1,436 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 regions¹¹Official · county
Unemployment rate	9.75 %country median 4.6%	31 Dec 2022	Hungarian Central Statistical Office (KSH), 2022 Census database¹⁰Official

What does a salary buy in Putnok?

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

Left over each month€468of €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€2.66/m² · official · Magánlakásbérlés, bérleti díjak – a 2018. évi lakbérfelmérés főbb eredményei · 2018-10-31	− €159
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	€468

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Public employment service

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

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Safety

How safe is Putnok?

Police recorded about 1,877 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	1,877 incidents per 100,000	31 Dec 2025	11.1.2.1. Registered crimes by county and region¹Official · county

Mobility and administration

Putnok's nearest airport was DEB, 126 km away and offered 2 direct destinations.

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Direct destinations from the nearest major airport	2 count	3 Aug 2026	OpenFlights¹⁵Official
Distance to the nearest major airport	126 km	3 Aug 2026	OurAirports¹⁶Official
Nearest major airport (IATA code)	DEB	3 Aug 2026	OurAirports¹⁶Official

Language courses and integration

No exact city-level course record is currently published for Putnok. 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

Annual PM2.5 was 18 µg/m³ at the end of 2024. Monthly mean temperature moved from −3.8°C in January to 20.9°C in July.

Is the air quality good in Putnok?

The annual PM2.5 mean is 18 µg/m³ (2024) — above the WHO 2021 guideline of 5 µg/m³ but within the EU limit of 25 µg/m³. Source: European Environment Agency³

Annual mean at the measuring site(s) serving the city; current-day readings differ.

Rainfall through the yearAverage monthly precipitation, mm

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Air quality vs health guidelinesAnnual means against WHO 2021 guidelines and EU legal limits

Within WHO 2021 guidelineAbove WHO, within EU limitAbove EU legal limitCity annual mean · µg/m³

PM2.518WHO 5 · EU 25

City values from the published air-quality observations. WHO 2021 guidelines and EU limit values are published constants.

Metric	Value	Period	Source
PM2.5 — annual mean	18 µg/m³	31 Dec 2024	European Environment Agency³Official · nearest-station reading
Monthly extreme high temperature	Jan 12.02 · Feb 16.26 · Mar 21.62 · Apr 27.59 · May 29.8 · Jun 33.95 · Jul 37.93 · Aug 36.75 · Sep 33.52 · Oct 25.73 · Nov 20.26 · Dec 10.17 °C	31 Dec 2001	NASA POWER / NASA Langley Research Center¹³Official · coordinate grid
Monthly extreme low temperature	Jan -22.29 · Feb -20.42 · Mar -17.77 · Apr -5.38 · May -2.36 · Jun 3.93 · Jul 6.16 · Aug 5.84 · Sep 1.24 · Oct -6.08 · Nov -12.6 · Dec -17.14 °C	31 Dec 2001	NASA POWER / NASA Langley Research Center¹³Official · coordinate grid
Average temperature by month	Jan -3.83 · Feb -1.71 · Mar 3.39 · Apr 9.92 · May 14.9 · Jun 18.77 · Jul 20.86 · Aug 20.58 · Sep 15.22 · Oct 9.07 · Nov 3.56 · Dec -2.14 °C	31 Dec 2001	NASA POWER / NASA Langley Research Center¹³Official · coordinate grid
Average precipitation by month	Jan 29 · Feb 30.1 · Mar 32.7 · Apr 45.2 · May 77.3 · Jun 83 · Jul 94.4 · Aug 65.6 · Sep 50.7 · Oct 51.6 · Nov 45 · Dec 34.3 mm	31 Dec 1991	NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information / WMO¹⁴Official · nearest-station reading

Population and city profile

How many people live in Putnok?

The published population was 6,324 people in 2022. Source: Hungarian Central Statistical Office (KSH), 2022 Census database¹⁰

Who lives hereResidents by nationality, % of population

By nationality

National passport99.5%

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

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Foreign residents	32 people	31 Dec 2022	Hungarian Central Statistical Office (KSH)⁴Official
Population	6,324 people	31 Dec 2022	Hungarian Central Statistical Office (KSH), 2022 Census database¹⁰Official

People and communities

Metric	Value	Period	Source
No religion or other, share	15.89 %	31 Dec 2022	Hungarian Central Statistical Office (KSH)⁸Official

International community in Putnok

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	6,324	100.0%
Citizen of Hungary	6,292	99.5%
Foreign national	32	0.5%
EU foreign national	25	0.4%
Non-EU foreign national	7	0.1%

Largest published groups; zero-count groups are omitted. Dimensions are source-native and are never merged. Official source⁹

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	6,324	100.0%
Hungarian language spoken with family members or friends	5,283	83.5%
No answer to question about language spoken with family members or friends	1,034	16.4%
Other language spoken with family members or friends	95	1.5%
Language spoken with family members or friends by domestic ethnic groups	44	0.7%
German language spoken with family members or friends	22	0.3%
Ukrainian language spoken with family members or friends	8	0.1%
Slovakian language spoken with family members or friends	7	0.1%
Gipsy (Romani, Boyash) language spoken with family members or friends	4	0.1%
Gipsy (Romani) language spoken with family members or friends	4	0.1%

Largest published groups; zero-count groups are omitted. Dimensions are source-native and are never merged. Official source⁹

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	6,324	100.0%
Hungarian	5,197	82.2%
No answer to ethnic groups	915	14.5%
Domestic ethnic groups	376	5.9%
Gipsy (Romani)	354	5.6%
German	6	0.1%
Slovakian	5	0.1%
Ukrainian	5	0.1%
Other ethnic groups	4	0.1%

Largest published groups; zero-count groups are omitted. Dimensions are source-native and are never merged. Official source⁹

Additional context

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Residents with a bachelor's degree or higher	9.38 %	31 Dec 2022	Hungarian Central Statistical Office (KSH)⁷Official

Alternatives for people set on Putnok

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.

Edelény as a Putnok alternative in the same region

23 km away, better on 1 of 5 metrics measured the same way, worse on 0.

Unemployment: 5.9% Edelény vs 9.7% Putnok−39%
Residents: 9,271 Edelény vs 6,324 Putnok+47%
Rent: €2.66/m² Edelény vs €2.66/m² Putnoksame level
Recorded crime, per 100k: 1,877 Edelény vs 1,877 Putnoksame level
Annual PM2.5: 18.0 µg/m³ Edelény vs 18.0 µg/m³ Putnoksame level

Full comparison More about Edelény

Érd as a Putnok alternative in the same country

A move, not a commute, at 152 km, better on 2 of 3 metrics measured the same way, worse on 0. Rent and recorded crime, per 100k cannot be compared like for like.

Residents: 71,253 Érd vs 6,324 Putnok+1027%
Unemployment: 3.6% Érd vs 9.7% Putnok−63%
Rent: €2.93/m² Érd vs €2.66/m² Putnokno percentage
Annual PM2.5: 13.0 µg/m³ Érd vs 18.0 µg/m³ Putnok−28%
Recorded crime, per 100k: 462 Érd vs 1,877 Putnokno percentage

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Cities near Putnok

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

Alternative cities in Hungary

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

All Hungary cities

Ibrány6,323 residents Mindszent6,322 residents Felsőzsolca6,290 residents Vésztő6,268 residents Enying6,383 residents Kerekegyháza6,458 residents

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Yes — migrants can receive medical care in Putnok 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; Putnok's school authority applies it locally.

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

Is Putnok part of Miskolc?

Putnok belongs to the same official metropolitan area as Miskolc; that does not by itself make it an administrative part of the hub. It is about 33.8 km away by straight-line distance. Miskolc city profile

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Common questions

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

How many people live in Putnok?

The published population was 6,324 people in 2022. Source: Hungarian Central Statistical Office (KSH), 2022 Census database.

Is the air quality good in Putnok?

The annual PM2.5 mean is 18 µg/m³ (2024) — above the WHO 2021 guideline of 5 µg/m³ but within the EU limit of 25 µg/m³. Source: European Environment Agency.

How safe is Putnok?

What is the unemployment rate in Putnok?

The unemployment rate is about 9.7 % (2022). Source: Hungarian Central Statistical Office (KSH), 2022 Census database.

How many foreign residents live in Putnok?

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

Is Putnok a good place to live?

Putnok 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.

Is Putnok part of Miskolc?

Putnok belongs to the same official metropolitan area as Miskolc; that does not by itself make it an administrative part of the hub. It is about 33.8 km away by straight-line distance.

Which cities are near Putnok?

Ózd, Tornaľa, Kazincbarcika, Sajószentpéter, Edelény are near Putnok. 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 Putnok?

The official citizenship distribution records 6,324 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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