Living in Salgótarján

In Salgótarján, unemployment is 7.4% (2022).

The population of Salgótarján totalled 31,312 at the end of 2022. Salgótarján had an unemployment rate of 7.42% at the end of 2022. At the end of 2022, the foreign population in Salgótarján numbered 220.

Last checked 2026-10-0721 sources

Population31,312people31 Dec 2022Official source · Hungarian Central Statistical Office (KSH), 2022 Census database

Average gross salary1,369EUR/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 rate7.42%country median 4.6% — 60% aboveOfficial source · Hungarian Central Statistical Office (KSH), 2022 Census database

Recorded crime2,339incidents 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 Salgótarján?

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

Visa and entry rulesPassport-specific entry and national residence context.BenefitsCountry-wide eligibility and official application routes.Taxes in HungaryNational rates and thresholds that apply in Salgótarján.Healthcare eligibilityCountry-wide insurance and residence conditions.

Housing and cost

The vacancy rate was 17.11% at the end of 2022. Salgótarján recorded 18,055 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 internet¹⁶Official · national market
Mobile plan, 10 GB	17.81 EUR/month	30 Sept 2026	Telekom Domino Next¹⁵Official · national market
Housing vacancy rate (legacy series)	17.11 %	31 Dec 2022	Hungarian Central Statistical Office (KSH)³Official
Dwellings	18,055 dwellings	31 Dec 2022	Hungarian Central Statistical Office (KSH)⁴Official
Average net rent (nettokalt)	2.66 EUR/m²/month	31 Oct 2018	Magánlakásbérlés, bérleti díjak – a 2018. évi lakbérfelmérés főbb eredményei¹⁰Official · regional context
Average monthly rent (whole dwelling)	141.1 EUR/month	31 Oct 2018	Magánlakásbérlés, bérleti díjak – a 2018. évi lakbérfelmérés főbb eredményei¹⁰Official · regional context

Is Salgótarján a good place to live?

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Remote worker51%strong on work, weak on air quality · range 40–62%

Skilled employee51%strong on work, weak on safety · range 42–60%

Student53%strong on cost, weak on work · range 43–63%

Family47%strong on safety, weak on cost · range 36–58%

Retirement57%strong on safety, weak on admin · range 43–71%

Work and income

What is the unemployment rate in Salgótarján?

The unemployment rate is about 7.4 % (2022).

Unemployment rate: 7.42 % · Hungarian Central Statistical Office (KSH), 2022 Census database⁸

Unemployment across cities in HungaryUnemployment in Salgótarján is 7.4%. Of 277 cities with data, 124 have unemployment of 4 to under 6%.

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Salgótarján 7.4%

Unemployment rate (%)

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Average gross earnings	1,369 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	7.42 %country median 4.6%	31 Dec 2022	Hungarian Central Statistical Office (KSH), 2022 Census database⁸Official

What does a salary buy in Salgótarján?

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 Salgótarján. The verified national service may still offer online registration, job search or an official office finder.

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Safety

How safe is Salgótarján?

Police recorded about 2,339 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	2,339 incidents per 100,000	31 Dec 2025	11.1.2.1. Registered crimes by county and region¹Official · county

Mobility and administration

Salgótarján's nearest airport was BUD, 85 km away and offered 77 direct destinations.

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Direct destinations from the nearest major airport	77 count	3 Aug 2026	OpenFlights¹³Official
Distance to the nearest major airport	85 km	3 Aug 2026	OurAirports¹⁴Official
Nearest major airport (IATA code)	BUD	3 Aug 2026	OurAirports¹⁴Official

Language courses and integration

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

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Climate and air quality

Monthly mean temperature moved from −2.9°C in January to 21.6°C in July. Salgótarján's monthly precipitation totalled 27.2 mm in January and 74.1 mm in July.

Rainfall through the yearAverage monthly precipitation, mm

JFMAMJJASOND

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Monthly extreme high temperature	Jan 12.83 · Feb 15.43 · Mar 21.67 · Apr 28.51 · May 30.68 · Jun 35.81 · Jul 39.61 · Aug 37.64 · Sep 33.81 · Oct 27.03 · Nov 20.65 · Dec 11.54 °C	31 Dec 2001	NASA POWER / NASA Langley Research Center¹¹Official · coordinate grid
Monthly extreme low temperature	Jan -22.62 · Feb -18.84 · Mar -16.81 · Apr -4.65 · May -1.32 · Jun 2.99 · Jul 7.06 · Aug 6.78 · Sep 2.05 · Oct -4.63 · Nov -12.69 · Dec -16.96 °C	31 Dec 2001	NASA POWER / NASA Langley Research Center¹¹Official · coordinate grid
Average temperature by month	Jan -2.94 · Feb -0.9 · Mar 4.17 · Apr 10.54 · May 15.46 · Jun 19.4 · Jul 21.59 · Aug 21.27 · Sep 15.85 · Oct 9.73 · Nov 4.14 · Dec -1.46 °C	31 Dec 2001	NASA POWER / NASA Langley Research Center¹¹Official · coordinate grid
Average precipitation by month	Jan 27.2 · Feb 29.3 · Mar 30.7 · Apr 32.7 · May 63.3 · Jun 66.9 · Jul 74.1 · Aug 62.9 · Sep 46.8 · Oct 42.5 · Nov 42.3 · Dec 33.3 mm	31 Dec 1991	NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information / WMO¹²Official · nearest-station reading

Population and city profile

How many people live in Salgótarján?

The published population was 31,312 people in 2022. Source: Hungarian Central Statistical Office (KSH), 2022 Census database⁸

Who lives hereResidents by nationality, % of population

By nationality

National passport99.3%

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

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Foreign residents	220 people	31 Dec 2022	Hungarian Central Statistical Office (KSH)²Official
Population	31,312 people	31 Dec 2022	Hungarian Central Statistical Office (KSH), 2022 Census database⁸Official

People and communities

Metric	Value	Period	Source
No religion or other, share	20.75 %	31 Dec 2022	Hungarian Central Statistical Office (KSH)⁶Official

International community in Salgótarján

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	31,312	100.0%
Citizen of Hungary	31,092	99.3%
Foreign national	220	0.7%
EU foreign national	115	0.4%
Non-EU foreign national	105	0.3%

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	31,312	100.0%
Hungarian language spoken with family members or friends	26,594	84.9%
No answer to question about language spoken with family members or friends	4,654	14.9%
Other language spoken with family members or friends	740	2.4%
Language spoken with family members or friends by domestic ethnic groups	240	0.8%
German language spoken with family members or friends	82	0.3%
Gipsy (Romani, Boyash) language spoken with family members or friends	69	0.2%
Gipsy (Romani) language spoken with family members or friends	54	0.2%
Slovakian language spoken with family members or friends	46	0.1%
Gipsy (Boyash) language spoken with family members or friends	17	0.1%

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Published group	People	Share
Romanian language spoken with family members or friends	11	0.0%
Ukrainian language spoken with family members or friends	8	0.0%
Greek language spoken with family members or friends	5	0.0%
Bulgarian language spoken with family members or friends	4	0.0%
Croatian language spoken with family members or friends	4	0.0%
Polish language spoken with family members or friends	4	0.0%
Ruthenian language spoken with family members or friends	3	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
Belong to ethnic groups	31,312	100.0%
Belong to Hungarian ethnic group	27,127	86.6%
No answer to questions about belong to ethnic groups	4,138	13.2%
Belong to domestic ethnic groups	1,402	4.5%
Belong to Gipsy (Romani) ethnic group	1,039	3.3%
Belong to Other ethnic groups	797	2.5%
Belong to Slovakian ethnic group	141	0.5%
Belong to German ethnic group	112	0.4%
Belong to Ukrainian ethnic group	23	0.1%
Belong to Bulgarian ethnic group	22	0.1%

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Published group	People	Share
Belong to Romanian ethnic group	19	0.1%
Belong to Polish ethnic group	16	0.1%
Belong to Croatian ethnic group	12	0.0%
Belong to Greek ethnic group	11	0.0%
Belong to Ruthenian ethnic group	11	0.0%
Belong to Armenian ethnic group	9	0.0%
Belong to Slovenian ethnic group	6	0.0%
Belong to Serbian ethnic group	5	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	18.88 %	31 Dec 2022	Hungarian Central Statistical Office (KSH)⁵Official

Alternatives for people set on Salgótarján

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.

Pásztó as a Salgótarján alternative in the same region

20 km away, better on 1 of 4 metrics measured the same way, worse on 0.

Unemployment: 5.3% Pásztó vs 7.4% Salgótarján−28%
Residents: 8,608 Pásztó vs 31,312 Salgótarján−73%
Rent: €2.66/m² Pásztó vs €2.66/m² Salgótarjánsame level
Recorded crime, per 100k: 2,339 Pásztó vs 2,339 Salgótarjánsame level

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Érd as a Salgótarján alternative in the same country

A move, not a commute, at 102 km, better on 1 of 2 metrics measured the same way, worse on 0. Rent and recorded crime, per 100k cannot be compared like for like.

Unemployment: 3.6% Érd vs 7.4% Salgótarján−51%
Residents: 71,253 Érd vs 31,312 Salgótarján+128%
Rent: €2.93/m² Érd vs €2.66/m² Salgótarjánno percentage
Recorded crime, per 100k: 462 Érd vs 2,339 Salgótarjánno percentage

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Cities near Salgótarján

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

Alternative cities in Hungary

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Ózd31,022 residents Gödöllő32,625 residents Szekszárd29,889 residents Baja33,140 residents Hajdúböszörmény29,374 residents Budaörs29,024 residents

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Salgótarján in rankings

#30 of 30 in Largest cities in Hungary

Yes — migrants can receive medical care in Salgótarján 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; Salgótarján'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 Salgótarján?

The published population was 31,312 people in 2022. Source: Hungarian Central Statistical Office (KSH), 2022 Census database.

How safe is Salgótarján?

What is the unemployment rate in Salgótarján?

The unemployment rate is about 7.4 % (2022). Source: Hungarian Central Statistical Office (KSH), 2022 Census database.

How many foreign residents live in Salgótarján?

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

Is Salgótarján a good place to live?

Salgótarján 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 Salgótarján?

Bátonyterenye, Pásztó, Szécsény, Fiľakovo are near Salgótarján. 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 Salgótarján?

The official citizenship distribution records 31,312 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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