Where Do Hungary’s Highest Earners Live? The Answer May Surprise You…, 01/06/2026

Budapest? Sopron? Győr? The places where Hungary’s top earners live may not be the ones you would first expect. As of today, income data are available at the settlement level on the Hungarian Central Statistical Office’s (HCSO) interactive map platform, TIMEA.

Curious how much people earn where you live? Or would you simply like to know which settlement has the highest average income? From now on, these insights are also accessible through TIMEA, the interactive mapping application. A total of 13 indicators – including earnings, employment, unemployment and characteristics of the housing stock – were updated on 1 June based on the latest available data. The application allows users to display and query territorial data on maps and to access the related methodological information.

The key novelty of the 1 June update is that the annual gross and net average earnings of full time employees for the period 2019–2025 are now available at the settlement level, based on employees’ registered place of residence. Browsing the most detailed map ever published, it becomes clear that the capital (based on the average of its 23 districts) is far from being among the top settlements. Alongside the agglomeration municipalities around Buda – such as Nagykovácsi, Telki and Budajenő – and the towns near the Austrian border, Paks also appears among the settlements with the highest average earnings, despite not being widely perceived as such. The data also show that between 2019 and 2025 the largest increases in earnings were observed mainly in several lower income settlements in Borsod Abaúj Zemplén and Baranya counties. In some places, net average earnings nearly tripled by the end of the period, although they still remained significantly below the national average.

The TIMEA application, available free of charge in both Hungarian and English, enables anyone to create informative maps using more than 200 indicators across 23 thematic areas published on the HCSO website. Users can download both the generated maps and the underlying data. Visualisation is available at four territorial levels: regional, county, district and settlement. Various base map layers – such as aerial imagery or OpenStreetMap – and labels can be added to the administrative boundary view. Most of the data available for display and download go back to 2012, and all indicators are shown according to the administrative division of the latest available year.

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