18th district of Budapest

18th district of Budapest
18th district of Budapest
District of Budapest
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	Location of the 18th district of Budapest
	Coordinates: 47°26′N 19°12′E / 47.433°N 19.200°E
Country	Hungary
City	Budapest
Government
• Mayor	Sándor Szaniszló (DK)
Area
• Total	38.60 km2 (14.90 sq mi)
Population (2022)
• Total	99,400
• Density	2,575/km2 (6,670/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Website	bp18.hu

18th district of Budapest (Hungarian: Budapest XVIII. kerülete) was formed on January 1, 1950, when the towns of Pestszentlőrinc and Pestszentimre were joined to Budapest.^[2] The district is mostly a residential suburb with many single-family houses spread out, some densely built housing estates, and a few industrial sites. It is home to Budapest International Airport, as well as the Central Forecasting Office of the National Meteorological Service and the Central Atmospheric Physics Institute.

History

The district was created in 1950 by merging Pestszentimre and Pestszentlőrinc, which had existed as two separate cities until then and were annexed to Budapest.

Politics

The current mayor of the district is Sándor Szaniszló (DK).

Name	Party	Date
Endre Molich	SZDSZ	1990–1994
László Mester	MSZP	1994–2010
Attila Ughy	Fidesz-KDNP	2010–2019
Sándor Szaniszló	DK	2019–

Population

On October 1, 2022, the population of the 18th district was 99,400 people, which was 5.9% of Budapest’s total population. Since the 2011 census, the district’s population grew by 901 people. In 2022, the average number of people per square kilometer was 2,575. The age structure of the district is quite unfavorable. That year, 14% of the residents were under 14 years old, while 21% were over 65. In 2021, life expectancy at birth was 73 years for men and 78.3 years for women. The largest group by highest completed education is people with high school diplomas, numbering 34,208, followed by those with university degrees, totaling 23,821. In 2022, 88.2% of people over 6 years old had internet access. According to the census, 10.8% of the district’s population, about 10,743 people, identified as belonging to a minority. The most common minorities were German, Roma, and Chinese.

Sister cities

References

↑ "A fővárosi kerületek, a megyei jogú városok, a városok területe, lakónépessége és a lakások száma" [The area of districts of the capital, of the towns with county's rights, resident population and number of dwellings]. Magyarország közigazgatási helynévkönyve 2016. január 1 [Gazetteer of Hungary 1st January, 2016] (PDF). Hungarian Central Statistical Office. 2016. p. 21.
↑ "A kerület története". bp18.hu. Archived from the original on 2011-06-15. Retrieved 2014-11-06.

[KSH-1] "A fővárosi kerületek, a megyei jogú városok, a városok területe, lakónépessége és a lakások száma" [The area of districts of the capital, of the towns with county's rights, resident population and number of dwellings]. Magyarország közigazgatási helynévkönyve 2016. január 1 [Gazetteer of Hungary 1st January, 2016] (PDF). Hungarian Central Statistical Office. 2016. p. 21.

[2] "A kerület története". bp18.hu. Archived from the original on 2011-06-15. Retrieved 2014-11-06.

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