# Population in Romania, county by county: three censuses

Choose a county or Bucharest and compare resident population in the 2002, 2011 and 2021 censuses. The map shows change, not why it happened.

https://mariuscomper.uk/en/population/

- [The languages of Timișoara, 1869–2021: what its people told the census](https://mariuscomper.uk/limbile-timisoarei/en/): Timișoara, in western Romania, as a street at night, one lit window for every hundred residents. Ask the city its mother tongue, nationality and faith and the same windows answer differently; in 1910 its 6,728 Jews appear only when language is set beside religion. Every census from 1869 to 2021. In Romanian and English.
- [The 1918 border in today's figures, commune by commune](https://mariuscomper.uk/granita-care-nu-mai-exista/en/): The frontier between the Old Kingdom and Austria-Hungary vanished in 1918. A test of 29 indicators across 3,181 communes shows what still steps at the old line, what differs as a slope, and what does not differ at all. In Romanian and English.
- [Britain and Romania: nearly 2,000 years of links, from Hadrian’s Wall to the 2021 census](https://mariuscomper.uk/britanie-romania/en/): Twelve sourced stops on what Britain and Romania left in each other, from a hoard of nails in Scotland and Dacians on Hadrian’s Wall to jets built in Bucharest; at the end you look up how many Romania-born people live in your area of England or Wales.
- [How many people are left in your commune](https://mariuscomper.uk/comunele-care-se-golesc/en/): Search your commune or county and see on 3D terrain how its population fell or rose across the 2002, 2011 and 2021 censuses. Every commune is a column: height is population, colour is change. In Romanian and English.
- [How many more times will you see your parents? A calculator of the time you have left, from Romania's life tables](https://mariuscomper.uk/timpul-cu-parintii/en/): Work out how many visits and days you have left with your mother, father or grandparents, from your ages, how often you meet and Romania's 2024 life table.
- [How many ancestors did you have in the year 1000?](https://mariuscomper.uk/cati-stramosi/en/): The places in your family tree double every generation. By the year 1000 they need billions of people, in a Europe of about 36 million. Put your grandparents' towns on the map, follow your ancestors generation by generation and compare them with a classmate's. In Romanian and English.
- [How rare is your birthday?](https://mariuscomper.uk/ziua-ta-de-nastere/en/): Pick a date and see where it ranks among the 365 of the year, from 6.5 million births recorded in Romania in 1995–2025. The same data show births moving away from weekends, new public holidays, the 13th and 29 February.
- [29 questions at America's gate: Romanian emigration to America (1880–1930)](https://mariuscomper.uk/cu-vaporul-spre-america/en/): 148,249 Romanians admitted between 1899 and 1924, the Fiume sailings, the Ellis Island inspection to try yourself, and nine real passengers to search by name.
- [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.
- [Romania Keeps Building. But For Whom?](https://mariuscomper.uk/constru-pentru-cine/en/): Romania's national statistics office counts, every year, how many dwellings exist in every locality. Since 1992 the housing stock has grown 29,5%, even as the domiciled population fell 8,3% — and in 65,2% of 2.946 localities, housing grew exactly where people left.
- [Would you still give this name?](https://mariuscomper.uk/numele-asta-se-mai-da/en/): Maria ranked No. 1 in every year from 2002 to 2022. Type a first name and a birth year to see whether you belong to a crowd or a memory.
- [Emptying of people, not of homes](https://mariuscomper.uk/orasul-care-se-intinde/en/): Of 1,979 Romanian localities that had fewer residents in 2020 than in 2000, 1,556 have more dwellings. Look up your own place and see on a satellite image how much ground under buildings was added.
- [How Romanians are born](https://mariuscomper.uk/cum-se-nasc-romanii/en/): A thousand Romanian births, rearranged by the mother's age, show how the most common age group shifted from 20–24 to 30–34 between 1990 and 2022. Follow the same dots by year, birth order and county.
- [Romania is moving, one commune at a time](https://mariuscomper.uk/tara-care-se-muta/en/): Over 34 years, big cities have stood still or lost population through migration while the communes around them grew by tens per thousand a year. Find your locality and see how Romania has moved.
- [What We Know About Ourselves](https://mariuscomper.uk/ce-stim-despre-noi/en/): A reader asked for a list of deduced truths about Romanians. One hundred survived, in ten chapters of ten. Each carries its deduction underneath, a map links the propositions to their 134 sources, and the result sits at the end.
- [How long you live on your own, before you marry](https://mariuscomper.uk/doisprezece-ani/en/): The years between the parental house and marriage: 12.6 in Sweden, 3.1 in Romania, minus 0.7 in Croatia. Hajnal’s 1965 line stayed put for marriage and rotated sixty degrees for the household.
- [Three hundred and five regions to 2100](https://mariuscomper.uk/trei-sute-cinci-regiuni/en/): Under SSP2, the 15–64 share across Romania's eight regions moves from 63.3–66.7% in 2020 to 46.7–48.9% in 2100. The map shows where regional paths separate.
- [91 percent of people live south of Bucharest](https://mariuscomper.uk/creasta/en/): 91.0% of people in the 2020 grid live south of 44.43° N. The midpoint sits at 25.4° N.
- [Close in the data, far on the map.](https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-fara-judete/en/): Find places in other counties with a similar profile and compare the values that connect them.
- [The shortage has a shape | Romania labour map](https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-labour-map/): Romania's labour shortage is a set of matching failures. A source-backed map of skills, care, place, formal work and migration.
- [Your birthday, ranked](https://mariuscomper.uk/how-common-is-your-birthday/): Pick a day and month and see where it ranks among the 365 dates of the year in England and Wales, how many babies are born on it, and whose birthday is rarer. Every birth from 1995 to 2025, from the ONS.
- [Romania's smallest town by population, area and density, ranked](https://mariuscomper.uk/en/romania-smallest-town/): What is Romania's smallest town? All 319 towns and municipalities ranked by resident population, administrative area and density, from census and boundary data.
- [Half the people, in 204 places](https://mariuscomper.uk/cantar/en/): Half the people, in 204 places.
- [Avoidable death](https://moartea-evitabila.mariuscomper.uk/en/): Romania: 199.7. EU average: 86.8. The same measure and year, a gap of 112.9 points.
- [România ta: 3,181 Romanian communes and towns in nine numbers (the sea, earthquakes, mountains in view, hospital, first mention)](https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-ta/en/): Type a Romanian town or village and see nine computed numbers, each from a different project: the sea, the earthquake design value, mountains in view, the nearest hospital, airport and castle, the first written mention, where the ground lay 100 million years ago, and your antipode.
- [How Bucharest spread into Ilfov since 1975: a satellite map of buildings, locality by locality](https://mariuscomper.uk/bucurestiul-se-revarsa/en/): Ilfov now has more ground under buildings than Bucharest itself: since 1990, buildings have covered 42.1 km² of new ground in Ilfov and 11.1 km² in the city. The 1975–2020 satellite map for every street, neighbourhood and commune, with census population.
- [Romanian names in England and Wales, 1996–2025](https://mariuscomper.uk/romanian-names-in-england/): Twelve names from Romania’s top-20 lists appear in no baby-name table for England and Wales from 1996 to 2003. In 2020 they were given to 611 babies. What the official tables can and cannot count, tested on Polish names.

## Sources

- [Institutul Național de Statistică · rezultate ale recensământului 2021](https://www.recensamantromania.ro/rezultate-rpl-2021/)
- [Thomas Brinkhoff · City Population: Romania](https://www.citypopulation.de/en/romania/admin/)
- [geo-spatial.org · limite administrative locale](https://geo-spatial.org/)