Fejér county

**Fejér**


Fejér
County seat :	Székesfehérvár
Surface:	4,358 km²
Residents:	418,487 as of 2016

Fejér [ ˈfɛjeːr ] ( German Stuhlweiß ) is a county (administrative district) in north-central Hungary , west of the Danube . It borders the Pest , Bács-Kiskun , Tolna , Somogy , Veszprém and Komárom-Esztergom counties . The area is 4,358.45 km², and the population is 418,487 (2016).

The area is flat and forms part of the Great Hungarian Plain . The county seat is the old coronation town Székesfehérvár (Stuhlweissenburg) of the Kingdom of Hungary . Another important city is Dunaújváros .

structure

With the government ordinance No. 218/2012 of August 13, 2012, the statistical small regions (Hungarian kistérség ) were abolished on January 1, 2013 and replaced by an approximately equal number of districts (Hungarian járás ). The small areas were retained for a short time for planning and statistical purposes, but were finally abolished on February 25, 2014. There were ten small areas in the county before it was dissolved. The reform changed the boundaries of all administrative units.

Former classification

The following small areas ( kistérség ) existed in Fejér County until the end of 2012 :

code	Small area	Administrative headquarters	Population (December 31, 2012)	Area in km²	Number of parishes	including cities
3701	Bicske	Bicske	37,888	618.73	16	1
3702	Dunaújváros	Dunaújváros	69,853	371.73	9	2
3703	Enying	Enying	20,844	433.11	9	1
3704	Gárdony	Gárdony	27,633	265.15	9	2
3705	Mór	Mór	34,496	417.55	13	2
3706	Sárbogárd	Sárbogárd	24,626	561.27	10	1
3707	Székesfehérvár	Székesfehérvár	134,517	667.14	18th	2
3708	Aba	Aba	23,011	467.16	9	-
3709	Adony	Adony	24,143	319.96	8th	2
3710	Ercsi	Ercsi	24,075	236.65	7th	2

Current classification

Fejér county is divided into 9 districts (Hungarian járás ) with 108 villages. Of these, the cities of Dunaújváros and Székesfehérvár are with county law (Hungarian Megyei jogú város ), 15 cities without county law (Hungarian város ), 12 large municipalities (Hungarian nagyközség ) and 79 municipalities (Hungarian község ).

Fejér county counties

Location type	number	Area (in km²)			Population on January 1, 2016			Population density (Ew / km²)
Location type	number	absolutely	proportionally	on average	absolutely	proportionally	on average	Population density (Ew / km²)
City with county law	2	223.56	5.13%	111.78	143,561	34.30%	71,781	642.2
Cities without county law	15th	1,112.54	25.53%	74.17	111.117	26.55%	7,408	99.9
Large municipalities	12	675.02	15.49%	56.25	39,609	9.46%	3,301	58.7
Communities	79	2,347.33	53.86%	29.71	124,200	29.68%	1,572	52.9
Fejér county as a whole	108	4,358.45		40.36	418,487		3,875	96.0

The current circles are:

code	circle	Circular seat	Residents (January 1, 2013)	Area in km²	Number of parishes	including cities
077	Bicske	Bicske	34,597	520.10	14th	1
078	Dunaújváros	Dunaújváros	91,854	650.05	16	4th
079	Enying	Enying	13,187	278.46	5	1
080	Gárdony	Gárdony	29,775	306.79	10	2
081	Martonvásár	Martonvásár	26,531	277.13	8th	2
082	Mór	Mór	32,957	395.13	12	2
083	Polgardi	Polgardi	19,938	294.94	9	1
084	Sárbogárd	Sárbogárd	28,509	653.52	12	1
085	Székesfehérvár	Székesfehérvár	143,738	982.33	22nd	1

Biggest cities

Aerial view: Adony

Church in Ercsi

city	German name	Residents (January 1, 2016)
Székesfehérvár	Stuhlweissenburg	98.207
Dunaújváros	Neustadt an der Donau	45.354
Mór	moor	14,010
Gárdony	Gardon	12,600
Sárbogárd	Bochart	12,038
Bicske	Witschke	11,984
Ercsi	Ertsching	7,981
Polgardi		6,856
Enying		6,651
Pusztaszabolcs		5,847
Martonvásár	Martinsmarkt	5,592
Csákvár	Chakwar	5,253
Rácalmás		4,561
Aba		4,424

Gorsium-Tác, aerial view
Lovasberény Palace
Nádasdladány Palace
Aerial view: Dég Palace

Aerial view: Bicske
Aerial view: Seregélyes Palace
Enying Castle
Mór Castle

Population development

Population development of the county

Noteworthy is a steady decrease in the population between 2006 and 2014. Dates in bold are census results.

date	population	date	population
01/01/1960 ¹	357.897	01/01/2007	428.711
01/01/1970	391.272	01/01/2008	428,572
01/01/1980	420.317	01/01/2009	428.295
01/01/1990	418,852	01/01/2010	427.416
01/01/2001	428.115	01/01/2011	426.120
02/01/2001	434,317	October 01, 2011	425,847
01/01/2002	428.922	01/01/2012	421.927
01/01/2003	428,409	01/01/2013	421.086
01/01/2004	428,579	01/01/2014	419.506
01/01/2005	428,798	01/01/2015	417,651
01/01/2006	428,332	01/01/2016	418,487

¹1960: present population; otherwise resident population

Population development of the districts

Only the districts of Bickse and Gardony can show a positive population balance.
The Polgárd district was dissolved on December 31, 2014 after two years, the communities were divided between the neighboring Enying and Székesfehérvár districts.

District name	Population level on January 1st
District name	2013	2014	2015	2016
Bicske	34,597	34,777	35,555	35,773
Dunaújváros	91,854	91.097	90,583	89,818
Enying	13,187	13,082	20,487	20,253
Gárdony	29,775	29,978	30,273	32,830
Martonvásár	26,531	26,405	26,258	26,311
Mór	32,957	32,776	34.002	33,861
Polgárd	19,938	19,748	dissolved
Sárbogárd	28,509	28,223	27,943	27,578
Székesfehérvár	143,738	143,420	152,550	152.063
Fejér county	421.086	419.506	417,651	418,487

History and culture

Museums

The Fejér County Museum of State Directorate is responsible for 10 county museums . The seat of the county is the town of Székesfehérvár (Stuhlweissenburg).