The NFSZ said 26.0% of the total, or around 67,000 people, had been seeking work for more than one year. The ratio was down 13.4 percentage points from a year earlier.
About 10.1% of registered job seekers, or 25,900 people, were unemployed school-leavers.
Some 141,000 job seekers, or 54.8% of the total, were eligible for some kind of unemployment or social support during the month.
A report earlier in August indicated that there has been an increasing recent trend in Hungary on the labor market for private companies to hire so-called fostered workers (non-skilled workers employed on public works schemes), due to continuing chronic labor shortages.
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