According to the most reliable estimates their number is currently 450,000 - 500,000.
Gypsies live throughout Hungary, although their distribution by area varies.
Changes have taken place in the type of settlement, too. A general observation, which can be made across the whole country, is that the urbanisation of the Gypsies is accompanied by an increase in ghetto and slum development. Segregation of Gypsies within the education system is widespread. This indicates that there was an improvement in the basic level of school education between 1970 and 1994. However, if we look at any other of the indices of educational qualification, we observe that the degree of inequality of opportunity between Gypsies and non-Gypsies has grown.