Demographics
| Historical population of Oradea | |||||||||||||
| Year | Population | %± | Romanian | Hungarian | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1787 | 9,790 | — | n/a | n/a | |||||||||
| 1830 | 19,091 | 95% | n/a | n/a | |||||||||
| 1857 | 22,443 | 17.5% | n/a | n/a | |||||||||
| 1880 | 31,324 | 39.5% | 6.5% | 86.8% | |||||||||
| 1900 | 47,018 | 50.1% | n/a | n/a | |||||||||
| 1912 census | 64,169 | 36.4% | 5.6% | 91% | |||||||||
| 1930 census | 82,687 | 28.8% | 27.1% | 51.5% | |||||||||
| 1948 census | 82,282 | −0.4% | 32.8% | 63.8% | |||||||||
| 1956 census | 98,950 | 20.2% | 35.9% | 59% | |||||||||
| 1966 census | 122,534 | 23.8% | 46% | 51.3% | |||||||||
| 1977 census | 170,531 | 39.1% | 53.9% | 44% | |||||||||
| 1992 census | 222,741 | 30.6% | 64.7% | 33.3% | |||||||||
| 2002 census | 206,614 | −7.2% | 70.3% | 27.5% | |||||||||
| 2011 census | 183,123 | −11.3% | 72.6% | 24.5% | |||||||||
As of 2011 census data, Oradea has a population of 183,123, a decrease from the figure recorded at the 2002 census.
The ethnic makeup is as follows:
- Romanians: 132,945 (72.60%)
- Hungarians: 44,892 (24.51%)
- Roma: 2,129 (1.16%)
- Other: 1.73%
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