| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Timezone: | CET |
| Utc Offset: | +1 |
| Timezone Dst: | CEST |
| Utc Offset Dst: | +2 |
| Official Name: | Helvécia |
| Subdivision Type1: | County |
| Subdivision Name1: | Bács-Kiskun |
| Area Total Km2: | 56.47 |
| Population As Of: | 2015 |
| Population Total: | 4522[1] |
| Population Density Km2: | 80.1 |
| Postal Code Type: | Postal code |
| Postal Code: | 6034 |
| Area Code: | 76 |
Helvécia is a large village in Bács-Kiskun county, in the Southern Great Plain region of southern Hungary.
Helvécia was founded in 1892 by Swiss-born teacher Heinrich Eduard Weber (Wéber Ede in Hungarian). After the great phylloxera epidemic that had destroyed much of the historical vineyard plantings in the 1870s, sandy soils of the Great Plains became much more valuable for grape cultivation than before. Helvécia was settled by 501 vineyard workers, most of them from the Balaton wine country. It gained independence of nearby Kecskemét in 1952.
It covers an area of 73.660NaN0 and has a population of 4,522 people (2015). Most of its inhabitants work in agriculture.Approximately half of the population lives in hamlets. The rest is distributed between two centres approximately 3 km apart from each other: the older Helvécia-Ótelep, and the Szabó-Sándor-telep or Újtelep, originally a housing area for the former collective farm.
See also: List of twin towns and sister cities in Hungary. Helvécia is twinned with:[2]
In 1973, a severe level crossing accident took place here with 37 people at least killed.
