# Sibiu: places, data and stories

Explore Sibiu 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/sibiu/#proiecte)

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

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

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

## What you can explore here

- Everyone goes to Viscri and Biertan. There are 160 more fortified churches, and at most of them you phone for the key. (https://mariuscomper.uk/biserici-fortificate/en/)

A map of Transylvania's 162 fortified churches includes the seven UNESCO villages, heritage class, published opening hours, keyholder contact and damaged buildings.

- 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.

- Medieval cities 2026: Sibiu, Brasov, Sighisoara — which, fares, access (https://mariuscomper.uk/orase-medievale/en/)

Sibiu, Brașov or Sighișoara: museums, citadels, access and published prices. The Black Church costs 30 lei for adults, with winter hours and three announced closures in November 2026.

- Transfagarasan: Is It Open? Season Dates, Transalpina Too (https://mariuscomper.uk/transfagarasan/en/)

Is the Transfagarasan open now? Opening and closing dates 2015–2026, Transalpina comparison, altitude profile, fuel, the Balea cable car, and what to do when it's closed.

- 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

- Fortified church in Agnita

- Fortified church in Alma Vii

- Fortified church in Alțâna

- Fortified church in Avrig

- Bâlea Lake

- Biertan

- Fortified church in Boian

- Fortified church in Buzd

- Fortified church in Cristian

- Fortified church in Apoldu de Sus

- Fortified church in Cisnădie

- Fortified church in Hosman

- Fortified church in Cârța

- Sibiu

- Sibiu

- Fortified church in Valea Viilor

## What the county data measures

Measure | Value | Period and meaning

Median age of the population by domicile ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/varsta-localitatii/en/) | 43.7 years | 2026Half the population registered by domicile is younger, half older.

Dwellings with no enumerated residents ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/casele-goale/en/) | 25.1% | 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/) | 103 | 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.

- Agnita (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/places/?loc=143682)Locality profile ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-ta/en/l/143682/)

- Alma (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/places/?loc=146012)Locality profile ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-ta/en/l/146012/)

- Alțina (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/places/?loc=143888)Locality profile ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-ta/en/l/143888/)

- Apoldu de Jos (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/places/?loc=143922)Locality profile ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-ta/en/l/143922/)

- Arpașu de Jos (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/places/?loc=143959)Locality profile ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-ta/en/l/143959/)

- Ațel (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/places/?loc=143995)Locality profile ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-ta/en/l/143995/)

- Avrig (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/places/?loc=144054)Locality profile ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-ta/en/l/144054/)

- Axente Sever (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/places/?loc=144116)Locality profile ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-ta/en/l/144116/)

- Bazna (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/places/?loc=144152)Locality profile ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-ta/en/l/144152/)

- Bârghiș (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/places/?loc=144232)Locality profile ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-ta/en/l/144232/)

- Biertan (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/places/?loc=144198)Locality profile ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-ta/en/l/144198/)

- Blăjel (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/places/?loc=144303)Locality profile ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-ta/en/l/144303/)

- Boița (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/places/?loc=146021)Locality profile ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-ta/en/l/146021/)

- Brateiu (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/places/?loc=144349)Locality profile ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-ta/en/l/144349/)

- Brădeni (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/places/?loc=144376)Locality profile ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-ta/en/l/144376/)

- Bruiu (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/places/?loc=144410)Locality profile ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-ta/en/l/144410/)

- Cârța (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/places/?loc=144508)Locality profile ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-ta/en/l/144508/)

- Cârțișoara (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/places/?loc=144535)Locality profile ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-ta/en/l/144535/)

- Chirpăr (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/places/?loc=144456)Locality profile ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-ta/en/l/144456/)

- Cisnădie (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/places/?loc=143735)Locality profile ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-ta/en/l/143735/)

- Copșa Mică (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/places/?loc=143771)Locality profile ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-ta/en/l/143771/)

- Cristian (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/places/?loc=143487)Locality profile ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-ta/en/l/143487/)

- Dârlos (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/places/?loc=144553)Locality profile ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-ta/en/l/144553/)

- Dumbrăveni (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/places/?loc=143806)Locality profile ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-ta/en/l/143806/)

- Gura Râului (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/places/?loc=144599)Locality profile ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-ta/en/l/144599/)

- Hoghilag (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/places/?loc=144615)Locality profile ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-ta/en/l/144615/)

- Iacobeni (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/places/?loc=144651)Locality profile ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-ta/en/l/144651/)

- Jina (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/places/?loc=144713)Locality profile ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-ta/en/l/144713/)

- Laslea (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/places/?loc=144731)Locality profile ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-ta/en/l/144731/)

- Loamneș (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/places/?loc=144795)Locality profile ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-ta/en/l/144795/)

- Ludoș (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/places/?loc=144866)Locality profile ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-ta/en/l/144866/)

- Marpod (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/places/?loc=144893)Locality profile ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-ta/en/l/144893/)

- Mediaș (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/places/?loc=143619)Locality profile ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-ta/en/l/143619/)

- Merghindeal (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/places/?loc=144964)Locality profile ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-ta/en/l/144964/)

- Micăsasa (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/places/?loc=144991)Locality profile ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-ta/en/l/144991/)

- Miercurea Sibiului (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/places/?loc=144928)Locality profile ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-ta/en/l/144928/)

- Mihăileni (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/places/?loc=145042)Locality profile ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-ta/en/l/145042/)

- Moșna (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/places/?loc=145104)Locality profile ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-ta/en/l/145104/)

- Nocrich (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/places/?loc=145140)Locality profile ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-ta/en/l/145140/)

- Ocna Sibiului (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/places/?loc=143851)Locality profile ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-ta/en/l/143851/)

- Orlat (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/places/?loc=145202)Locality profile ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-ta/en/l/145202/)

- Păuca (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/places/?loc=145220)Locality profile ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-ta/en/l/145220/)

- Poiana Sibiului (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/places/?loc=145275)Locality profile ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-ta/en/l/145275/)

- Poplaca (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/places/?loc=143502)Locality profile ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-ta/en/l/143502/)

- Porumbacu de Jos (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/places/?loc=145293)Locality profile ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-ta/en/l/145293/)

- Racovița (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/places/?loc=145355)Locality profile ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-ta/en/l/145355/)

- Rășinari (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/places/?loc=143520)Locality profile ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-ta/en/l/143520/)

- Râu Sadului (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/places/?loc=145382)Locality profile ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-ta/en/l/145382/)

- Roșia (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/places/?loc=145408)Locality profile ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-ta/en/l/145408/)

- Sadu (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/places/?loc=145471)Locality profile ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-ta/en/l/145471/)

- Săliște (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/places/?loc=145499)Locality profile ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-ta/en/l/145499/)

- Sibiu (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/places/?loc=143450)Locality profile ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-ta/en/l/143450/)

- Slimnic (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/places/?loc=145603)Locality profile ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-ta/en/l/145603/)

- Șeica Mare (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/places/?loc=145667)Locality profile ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-ta/en/l/145667/)

- Șeica Mică (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/places/?loc=145738)Locality profile ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-ta/en/l/145738/)

- Șelimbăr (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/places/?loc=143557)Locality profile ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-ta/en/l/143557/)

- Șura Mare (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/places/?loc=145765)Locality profile ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-ta/en/l/145765/)

- Șura Mică (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/places/?loc=145792)Locality profile ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-ta/en/l/145792/)

- Tălmaciu (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/places/?loc=145827)Locality profile ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-ta/en/l/145827/)

- Târnava (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/places/?loc=143646)Locality profile ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-ta/en/l/143646/)

- Tilișca (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/places/?loc=145907)Locality profile ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-ta/en/l/145907/)

- Turnu Roșu (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/places/?loc=145934)Locality profile ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-ta/en/l/145934/)

- Valea Viilor (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/places/?loc=145961)Locality profile ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-ta/en/l/145961/)

- Vurpăr (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/places/?loc=145998)Locality profile ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-ta/en/l/145998/)

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