# Galați: places, data and stories

Explore Galați through projects about its places and county-level data. Then choose a town for its own profile.

- Projects covering this county (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/places/county/galati/#proiecte)

- Towns and communes (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/places/county/galati/#localitati)

- Compare two places (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/compare-places/)

- Download a county chart (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/reusable-charts/?county=galati)

## What you can explore here

- The Empty House — 1 in 4 Dwellings Stands Empty (https://mariuscomper.uk/casele-goale/en/)

The 2021 Census counts 2.53 million unoccupied dwellings — 25.5% of the housing stock. In Mehedinți 36.3% are empty. County map, breakdown and why the rural empty stock does not solve city rents.

- When Romania Fed England: the Wheat of Brăila, 1843–1852 (https://mariuscomper.uk/graul-brailei/en/)

Ten harvests, two free ports and the 9-foot Sulina bar: how Brăila and Galați came to send hundreds of thousands of quarters of wheat to Europe's markets in the 1840s.

- Romanian villages left without a school, 2013–2026 (https://mariuscomper.uk/trei-din-patru/en/)

Of 6,833 villages with a school on the Ministry of Education's 2013–14 list, 1,329 have none in 2025–26. A map of every village over 13 years, and why the official count of rural schools (−76%) does not mean as many schools closed.

- How old is your town? (https://mariuscomper.uk/varsta-localitatii/en/)

The median age of each of Romania’s 3,181 localities, computed from the registered population by single year of age (INS, POP107D), on a map with every real boundary. Search your locality, see how old it is against the country and the county, its age fingerprint in one hundred squares, its pyramid by sex and its path from 1992 to 2026. In 528 localities there are now more registered people aged 80 or over than children under 10; in 1992 there were 9.

## Places documented in the projects

- Galați

## What the county data measures

Measure | Value | Period and meaning

Median age of the population by domicile ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/varsta-localitatii/en/) | 44.6 years | 2026Half the population registered by domicile is younger, half older.

Dwellings with no enumerated residents ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/casele-goale/en/) | 19% | 2021 censusOf conventional dwellings. This does not establish abandonment or availability.

Geocoded villages with a listed school structure ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/trei-din-patru/en/) | 98 | 2025-26Counts villages in the analysed dataset, not schools or pupils.

Periods and definitions differ. Each project explains its source, unit and data limitations.

## Choose your locality

România ta profiles bring together nine calculated facts about each locality, with links to their sources.

- Barcea (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/places/?loc=75515)Locality profile ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-ta/en/l/75515/)

- Bălăbănești (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/places/?loc=75542)Locality profile ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-ta/en/l/75542/)

- Bălășești (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/places/?loc=75613)Locality profile ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-ta/en/l/75613/)

- Băleni (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/places/?loc=75668)Locality profile ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-ta/en/l/75668/)

- Băneasa (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/places/?loc=75686)Locality profile ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-ta/en/l/75686/)

- Berești (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/places/?loc=75338)Locality profile ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-ta/en/l/75338/)

- Berești-Meria (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/places/?loc=75356)Locality profile ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-ta/en/l/75356/)

- Braniștea (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/places/?loc=75711)Locality profile ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-ta/en/l/75711/)

- Brăhășești (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/places/?loc=75766)Locality profile ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-ta/en/l/75766/)

- Buciumeni (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/places/?loc=75819)Locality profile ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-ta/en/l/75819/)

- Cavadinești (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/places/?loc=75864)Locality profile ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-ta/en/l/75864/)

- Cerțești (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/places/?loc=75917)Locality profile ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-ta/en/l/75917/)

- Corni (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/places/?loc=76004)Locality profile ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-ta/en/l/76004/)

- Corod (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/places/?loc=75953)Locality profile ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-ta/en/l/75953/)

- Cosmești (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/places/?loc=76040)Locality profile ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-ta/en/l/76040/)

- Costache Negri (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/places/?loc=76111)Locality profile ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-ta/en/l/76111/)

- Cuca (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/places/?loc=76139)Locality profile ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-ta/en/l/76139/)

- Cudalbi (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/places/?loc=76157)Locality profile ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-ta/en/l/76157/)

- Cuza Vodă (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/places/?loc=77595)Locality profile ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-ta/en/l/77595/)

- Drăgănești (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/places/?loc=75221)Locality profile ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-ta/en/l/75221/)

- Drăgușeni (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/places/?loc=76175)Locality profile ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-ta/en/l/76175/)

- Fârțănești (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/places/?loc=76255)Locality profile ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-ta/en/l/76255/)

- Foltești (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/places/?loc=76282)Locality profile ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-ta/en/l/76282/)

- Frumușița (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/places/?loc=76317)Locality profile ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-ta/en/l/76317/)

- Fundeni (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/places/?loc=76353)Locality profile ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-ta/en/l/76353/)

- Galați (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/places/?loc=75098)Locality profile ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-ta/en/l/75098/)

- Ghidigeni (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/places/?loc=76406)Locality profile ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-ta/en/l/76406/)

- Gohor (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/places/?loc=76497)Locality profile ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-ta/en/l/76497/)

- Grivița (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/places/?loc=76558)Locality profile ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-ta/en/l/76558/)

- Independența (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/places/?loc=76585)Locality profile ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-ta/en/l/76585/)

- Ivești (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/places/?loc=76601)Locality profile ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-ta/en/l/76601/)

- Jorăști (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/places/?loc=76638)Locality profile ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-ta/en/l/76638/)

- Liești (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/places/?loc=76674)Locality profile ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-ta/en/l/76674/)

- Matca (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/places/?loc=76692)Locality profile ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-ta/en/l/76692/)

- Măstăcani (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/places/?loc=76718)Locality profile ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-ta/en/l/76718/)

- Movileni (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/places/?loc=76745)Locality profile ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-ta/en/l/76745/)

- Munteni (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/places/?loc=75258)Locality profile ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-ta/en/l/75258/)

- Nămoloasa (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/places/?loc=76763)Locality profile ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-ta/en/l/76763/)

- Negrilești (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/places/?loc=77579)Locality profile ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-ta/en/l/77579/)

- Nicorești (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/places/?loc=76807)Locality profile ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-ta/en/l/76807/)

- Oancea (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/places/?loc=76932)Locality profile ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-ta/en/l/76932/)

- Pechea (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/places/?loc=76969)Locality profile ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-ta/en/l/76969/)

- Piscu (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/places/?loc=76996)Locality profile ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-ta/en/l/76996/)

- Poiana (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/places/?loc=77587)Locality profile ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-ta/en/l/77587/)

- Priponești (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/places/?loc=77028)Locality profile ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-ta/en/l/77028/)

- Rădești (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/places/?loc=77561)Locality profile ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-ta/en/l/77561/)

- Rediu (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/places/?loc=77082)Locality profile ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-ta/en/l/77082/)

- Scânteiești (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/places/?loc=77126)Locality profile ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-ta/en/l/77126/)

- Schela (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/places/?loc=77153)Locality profile ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-ta/en/l/77153/)

- Slobozia Conachi (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/places/?loc=77180)Locality profile ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-ta/en/l/77180/)

- Smârdan (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/places/?loc=77224)Locality profile ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-ta/en/l/77224/)

- Smulți (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/places/?loc=77260)Locality profile ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-ta/en/l/77260/)

- Suceveni (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/places/?loc=77288)Locality profile ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-ta/en/l/77288/)

- Suhurlui (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/places/?loc=77601)Locality profile ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-ta/en/l/77601/)

- Șendreni (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/places/?loc=75114)Locality profile ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-ta/en/l/75114/)

- Târgu Bujor (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/places/?loc=75472)Locality profile ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-ta/en/l/75472/)

- Tecuci (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/places/?loc=75203)Locality profile ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-ta/en/l/75203/)

- Tudor Vladimirescu (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/places/?loc=77313)Locality profile ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-ta/en/l/77313/)

- Tulucești (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/places/?loc=77331)Locality profile ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-ta/en/l/77331/)

- Țepu (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/places/?loc=77377)Locality profile ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-ta/en/l/77377/)

- Umbrărești (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/places/?loc=77402)Locality profile ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-ta/en/l/77402/)

- Valea Mărului (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/places/?loc=77475)Locality profile ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-ta/en/l/77475/)

- Vânători (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/places/?loc=75150)Locality profile ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-ta/en/l/75150/)

- Vârlezi (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/places/?loc=77509)Locality profile ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-ta/en/l/77509/)

- Vlădești (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/places/?loc=77536)Locality profile ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-ta/en/l/77536/)

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