Demographics
According to the last census, from 2011, there were 50,935 people living within the city of Vaslui, making it the 33rd largest city in Romania. The ethnic makeup is as follows:
- Romanians: 98.63%
- Roma: 1.19%
- Lipovans: 0.06%
- Other: 0.12%
The population decreased again after the downfall of the Communism in 1989, because of the emigration.
Today, the majority of the population is of Romanian ethnicity. The Romani minority lives compactly in the southwestern suburbs of Rediu and Brodoc, in the southwestern part of the main town (in the neighbourhoods around Traian Street) and also scattered in the rest of locality. In the 1960s and 1970s nomadic Roma belonging to the Kalderash caste were forcibly settled by the Communists in the northern part of the town, scattered among Romanians. The third ethnic group is that of the Lipovans, who have in the center of the town a church of their Old Believers Christian branch.
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