Alsómocsolád (, , ) is a village () in

Hegyhát District Hegyhát ( hu, Hegyháti járás) is a district in northern part of Baranya County. The district is located in the Southern Transdanubia Statistical Region. It is the only district in Hungarian countryside, which is not named after its district s ...

, northern Baranya county, in the

Southern Transdanubia Southern Transdanubia ( hu, Dél-Dunántúl) is a statistical ( NUTS 2) region of Hungary. It is part of the Transdanubia (NUTS 1) region. Southern Transdanubia includes the counties of Somogy, Tolna, and Baranya. Its capital is the city of Pécs ...

region of Hungary. Its population at the 2011 census was 303.

Geography

The village is located at 46° 18′ 48″ N, 18° 14′ 39″ E. Its area is . It is part of the

statistical region, and administratively it falls under Baranya County and

. It lies south of the town of

Mágocs Mágocs (german: Magotsch) is a town in Baranya County, Hungary Hungary ( hu, Magyarország ) is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning of the Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, ...

and north of Pécs.

Demographics

2011 census

As of the census of 2011, there were 303 residents, 110 households, and 78 families living in the village. The population density was . There were 140 dwellings at an average density of . The average household size was 2.43. The average number of children was 1.01. The average family size was 2.82. Religious affiliation was 66.9% Roman Catholic, 2.3% Calvinist, 1.3% Lutheran, and 28.3% unaffiliated, with 1.3% declining to answer. The village had an

ethnic minority The term 'minority group' has different usages depending on the context. According to its common usage, a minority group can simply be understood in terms of demographic sizes within a population: i.e. a group in society with the least number o ...

German population of 7.1% and a Roma population of 2.3%. A small number of residents also identified as Croat (0.3%) and other, non-native to Hungary (2.6%). The vast majority declared themselves as Hungarian (97.1%), with 0.3% declining to answer.

Local government

The village is governed by a mayor with a four-person council. The local government of the village operates a

joint council office A joint or articulation (or articular surface) is the connection made between bones, ossicles, or other hard structures in the body which link an animal's skeletal system into a functional whole.Saladin, Ken. Anatomy & Physiology. 7th ed. McGraw- ...

with the nearby localities of

, Mekényes, and

Nagyhajmás Nagyhajmás (, , ) is a village () in Hegyhát District, northern Baranya county, in the Southern Transdanubia region of Hungary. Its population at the 2011 census was 346. Geography The village is located at 46° 22′ 22″ N, 18° 17′ 2 ...

. The seat of the joint council is in Mágocs.

Transportation

Railway

* Mágocs-Alsómocsolád Train Station, west of the village. The station is on the Dombóvár-Bátaszék railway line and is operated by

MÁV Hungarian State Railways ( hu, Magyar Államvasutak, MÁV) is the Hungarian national railway company, with divisions "MÁV START Zrt." (passenger transport), "MÁV-Gépészet Zrt." (maintenance), "MÁV-Trakció Zrt." and "MÁV Cargo Zrt" (freig ...

Geography

Demographics

2011 census

Local government

Transportation

Railway

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