The district is located in the Southern Great Plain Statistical Region.

The number of the inhabited places in Csongrád District is 4.

(ordered by population, as of 1 January 2012)[1] The bolded municipality is the city.

Besides the Hungarian majority, the main minority is the Roma (approx.

2,000 persons in Csongrád District did not declare their ethnic group at the 2011 census.