Kecskemét District

Kecskemét (Kecskeméti járás) is a district in northern part of Bács-Kiskun County. Kecskemét is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Southern Great Plain Statistical Region.

Geography
Kecskemét District borders with Dabas District and Cegléd District (Pest County) to the north, Nagykőrös District (Pest County) to the northeast, Tiszakécske District to the east, Kiskunfélegyháza District to the south, Kiskőrös District and Kunszentmiklós District to the west. The number of the inhabited places in Kecskemét District is 16.

Municipalities
The district has 1 urban county, 2 towns and 13 villages. (ordered by population, as of 1 January 2014) • Ágasegyháza (1,892)

• Ballószög (3,366)

• Felsőlajos (858)

• Fülöpháza (845)

• Fülöpjakab (1,161)

• Helvécia (4,406)

• Jakabszállás (2,615)

• Kecskemét (112,071) – district and county seat

• Kerekegyháza (6,330)

• Kunbaracs (615)

• Kunszállás (1,661)

• Ladánybene (1,574)

• Lajosmizse (11,228)

• Nyárlőrinc (2,323)

• Orgovány (3,372)

• Városföld (2,158) The bolded municipalities are cities.

Demographics
In 2011, it had a population of 155,481 and the population density was 128/km2.

Ethnicity
Besides the Hungarian majority, the main minorities are the German and Roma (approx. 1,750), Romanian (700), Croat (150), Russian and Serb (200), Slovak, Bulgarian and Ukrainian (100).

Total population (2011 census): 155,481 Ethnic groups (2011 census): Identified themselves: 141,203 persons: Approx. 14,000 persons in Kecskemét District did not declare their ethnic group at the 2011 census.
 * Hungarians: 134,683 (95.38%)
 * Germans: 1,748 (1.24%)
 * Gypsies: 1,734 (1.23%)
 * Others and indefinable: 3,038 (2.15%)

Religion
Religious adherence in the county according to 2011 census:


 * Catholic – 70,482 (Roman Catholic – 70,032; Greek Catholic – 424);
 * Reformed – 15,788;
 * Evangelical – 1,575;
 * other religions – 2,494;
 * Non-religious – 21,788;
 * Atheism – 1,887;
 * Undeclared – 41,467.