Living in Szabadszállás

In Szabadszállás, unemployment is 6.2% (2022).

Szabadszállás numbered 5,956 residents at the end of 2022. Szabadszállás registered an unemployment rate of 6.2% at the end of 2022. The foreign population count was 91 at the end of 2022.

Last checked 2026-10-0723 sources

Population5,956people31 Dec 2022Official source · Hungarian Central Statistical Office (KSH), 2022 Census database

Average gross salary1,525EUR/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 rent3.2EUR/m²/month31 Oct 2018Regional figureOfficial source · Magánlakásbérlés, bérleti díjak – a 2018. évi lakbérfelmérés főbb eredményei

Unemployment rate6.2%country median 4.6% — 34% aboveOfficial source · Hungarian Central Statistical Office (KSH), 2022 Census database

Recorded crime1,970incidents per 100,00031 Dec 2025District figureOfficial source · 11.1.2.1. Registered crimes by county and region

PM2.5, annual mean13µg/m³31 Dec 2024Nearest stationOfficial source · European Environment Agency

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

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 Szabadszállás.Healthcare eligibilityCountry-wide insurance and residence conditions.

Housing and cost

Housing vacancy measured 15.15% at the end of 2022. The number of dwellings in Szabadszállás reached 3,009 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 internet¹⁷Official · national market
Mobile plan, 10 GB	17.81 EUR/month	30 Sept 2026	Telekom Domino Next¹⁶Official · national market
Housing vacancy rate (legacy series)	15.15 %	31 Dec 2022	Hungarian Central Statistical Office (KSH)⁵Official
Dwellings	3,009 dwellings	31 Dec 2022	Hungarian Central Statistical Office (KSH)⁶Official
Average net rent (nettokalt)	3.2 EUR/m²/month	31 Oct 2018	Magánlakásbérlés, bérleti díjak – a 2018. évi lakbérfelmérés főbb eredményei¹²Official · regional context
Average monthly rent (whole dwelling)	169.3 EUR/month	31 Oct 2018	Magánlakásbérlés, bérleti díjak – a 2018. évi lakbérfelmérés főbb eredményei¹²Official · regional context

Is Szabadszállás a good place to live?

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Remote worker52%strong on work, weak on air quality · range 41–63%

Skilled employee50%strong on work, weak on education · range 41–59%

Student47%strong on cost, weak on work · range 37–57%

Family43%strong on safety, weak on education · range 32–54%

Retirement56%strong on safety, weak on admin · range 42–70%

Work and income

What is the unemployment rate in Szabadszállás?

The unemployment rate is about 6.2 % (2022). Source: Hungarian Central Statistical Office (KSH), 2022 Census database¹⁰

Unemployment across cities in HungaryUnemployment in Szabadszállás is 6.2%. Of 277 cities with data, 124 have unemployment of 4 to under 6%.

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Szabadszállás 6.2%

Unemployment rate (%)

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Average gross earnings	1,525 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	6.2 %country median 4.6%	31 Dec 2022	Hungarian Central Statistical Office (KSH), 2022 Census database¹⁰Official

What does a salary buy in Szabadszállás?

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

Left over each month€436of €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€3.20/m² · official · Magánlakásbérlés, bérleti díjak – a 2018. évi lakbérfelmérés főbb eredményei · 2018-10-31	− €192
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	€436

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Public employment service

No exact public employment office is currently linked to Szabadszállás. 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

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Safety

How safe is Szabadszállás?

Police recorded about 1,970 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	1,970 incidents per 100,000	31 Dec 2025	11.1.2.1. Registered crimes by county and region¹Official · county

Mobility and administration

Szabadszállás's nearest airport was BUD, 62 km away and offered 77 direct destinations.

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Direct destinations from the nearest major airport	77 count	3 Aug 2026	OpenFlights¹⁴Official
Distance to the nearest major airport	62 km	3 Aug 2026	OurAirports¹⁵Official
Nearest major airport (IATA code)	BUD	3 Aug 2026	OurAirports¹⁵Official

Language courses and integration

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

Szabadszállás recorded annual PM2.5 of 13 µg/m³ at the end of 2024. Monthly mean temperature moved from −1.1°C in January to 23.6°C in July.

Is the air quality good in Szabadszállás?

The annual PM2.5 mean is 13 µg/m³ (2024) — above the WHO 2021 guideline of 5 µg/m³ but within the EU limit of 25 µg/m³. Source: European Environment Agency²

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

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

PM2.513WHO 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	13 µg/m³	31 Dec 2024	European Environment Agency²Official · nearest-station reading
Monthly extreme high temperature	Jan 15.77 · Feb 19.11 · Mar 22.38 · Apr 30.4 · May 32.99 · Jun 38.15 · Jul 41.32 · Aug 39.63 · Sep 35.65 · Oct 29.08 · Nov 21.9 · Dec 16.77 °C	31 Dec 2001	NASA POWER / NASA Langley Research Center¹³Official · coordinate grid
Monthly extreme low temperature	Jan -20.43 · Feb -21.46 · Mar -13.02 · Apr -4.9 · May 1.21 · Jun 4.28 · Jul 9.88 · Aug 8.92 · Sep 3.73 · Oct -6.12 · Nov -6 · Dec -16.36 °C	31 Dec 2001	NASA POWER / NASA Langley Research Center¹³Official · coordinate grid
Average temperature by month	Jan -1.09 · Feb 0.91 · Mar 5.95 · Apr 11.96 · May 17.05 · Jun 21.3 · Jul 23.65 · Aug 23.33 · Sep 17.68 · Oct 11.67 · Nov 5.71 · Dec 0.13 °C	31 Dec 2001	NASA POWER / NASA Langley Research Center¹³Official · coordinate grid

Population and city profile

How many people live in Szabadszállás?

The published population was 5,956 people in 2022. Source: Hungarian Central Statistical Office (KSH), 2022 Census database¹⁰

Who lives hereResidents by nationality, % of population

By nationality

National passport98.5%

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

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Foreign residents	91 people	31 Dec 2022	Hungarian Central Statistical Office (KSH)⁴Official
Population	5,956 people	31 Dec 2022	Hungarian Central Statistical Office (KSH), 2022 Census database¹⁰Official

People and communities

Metric	Value	Period	Source
No religion or other, share	12.98 %	31 Dec 2022	Hungarian Central Statistical Office (KSH)⁸Official

International community in Szabadszállás

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	5,956	100.0%
Citizen of Hungary	5,865	98.5%
Foreign national	91	1.5%
Non-EU foreign national	50	0.8%
EU foreign national	41	0.7%

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	5,956	100.0%
Hungarian language spoken with family members or friends	5,231	87.8%
No answer to question about language spoken with family members or friends	673	11.3%
Language spoken with family members or friends by domestic ethnic groups	91	1.5%
Other language spoken with family members or friends	82	1.4%
Ukrainian language spoken with family members or friends	31	0.5%
Gipsy (Romani, Boyash) language spoken with family members or friends	30	0.5%
Gipsy (Romani) language spoken with family members or friends	26	0.4%
German language spoken with family members or friends	22	0.4%
Gipsy (Boyash) language spoken with family members or friends	5	0.1%

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Published group	People	Share
Romanian language spoken with family members or friends	5	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
Belong to ethnic groups	5,956	100.0%
Belong to Hungarian ethnic group	5,352	89.9%
No answer to questions about belong to ethnic groups	557	9.4%
Belong to domestic ethnic groups	255	4.3%
Belong to Gipsy (Romani) ethnic group	154	2.6%
Belong to Other ethnic groups	87	1.5%
Belong to Ukrainian ethnic group	38	0.6%
Belong to German ethnic group	33	0.6%
Belong to Romanian ethnic group	16	0.3%
Belong to Serbian ethnic group	5	0.1%

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Published group	People	Share
Belong to Slovakian ethnic group	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	8.63 %	31 Dec 2022	Hungarian Central Statistical Office (KSH)⁷Official

Alternatives for people set on Szabadszállás

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.

Kerekegyháza as a Szabadszállás alternative in the same region

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

Unemployment: 3.5% Kerekegyháza vs 6.2% Szabadszállás−44%
Residents: 6,458 Kerekegyháza vs 5,956 Szabadszállás+8%
Rent: €3.20/m² Kerekegyháza vs €3.20/m² Szabadszállássame level
Recorded crime, per 100k: 1,970 Kerekegyháza vs 1,970 Szabadszállássame level

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Érd as a Szabadszállás alternative in the same country

60 km away, better on 1 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 5,956 Szabadszállás+1096%
Unemployment: 3.6% Érd vs 6.2% Szabadszállás−41%
Rent: €2.93/m² Érd vs €3.20/m² Szabadszállásno percentage
Recorded crime, per 100k: 462 Érd vs 1,970 Szabadszállásno percentage
Annual PM2.5: 13.0 µg/m³ Érd vs 13.0 µg/m³ Szabadszállássame level

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Cities near Szabadszállás

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

Alternative cities in Hungary

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

All Hungary cities

Zalaszentgrót5,957 residents Jánossomorja5,961 residents Tápiószele5,943 residents Nagyecsed5,927 residents Bátaszék5,921 residents Dömsöd6,013 residents

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

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

Is Szabadszállás part of Kecskemét?

Szabadszállás is in the published commuting zone of Kecskemét; this does not mean it is administratively part of the hub. Kecskemét 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 Szabadszállás?

The published population was 5,956 people in 2022. Source: Hungarian Central Statistical Office (KSH), 2022 Census database.

Is the air quality good in Szabadszállás?

The annual PM2.5 mean is 13 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 Szabadszállás?

What is the unemployment rate in Szabadszállás?

The unemployment rate is about 6.2 % (2022). Source: Hungarian Central Statistical Office (KSH), 2022 Census database.

How many foreign residents live in Szabadszállás?

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

Is Szabadszállás a good place to live?

Szabadszállás 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 Szabadszállás part of Kecskemét?

Szabadszállás is in the published commuting zone of Kecskemét; this does not mean it is administratively part of the hub.

Which cities are near Szabadszállás?

Izsák, Kunszentmiklós, Solt, Kerekegyháza, Dunaföldvár are near Szabadszállás. 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 Szabadszállás?

The official citizenship distribution records 5,956 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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