New Interesting Facts About Lake Balaton

Napi.hu made a compilation of  interesting facts about Lake Balaton.

The rate of married and divorced people is higher in the towns near to the shore than other settlements, KSH (Hungarian Central Statistical Office) says. Nearly one third of ethnic Germans speak German as mother language. Their rate is extremely high in some villages. The cause of this phenomenon is the closeness of the spas of Zala County, which is popular among the German and Austrian nationals, who likely buy houses there.

Russians have the biggest number beyond the 13 national minority groups and EU-immigrants. About 240 Russians live int he larger towns (Hévíz,Siófok, Balatonfüred etc).

2,2 percent of the population of the towns close to the lake were Hungarians born  abroad. People from abroad form 10 percent of the population in 12 settlements.