page_title: Hunyad County
section_title: Demographics
hierarchical_section_title: Hunyad County / Demographics
caption_attribution_description: English: Ethnic map of the county (with data of the 1910 census). Key: dark green - Romanians; red - Hungarians; pink - Germans; light green - Czechs or Slovaks; blue-gray - Italians; orange - Polish; violet - Ruthenians; black - Roma. Coloured dots in plain rectangles imply the presence of smaller minority populations (generally more than 100 people or 10%). Multicoloured rectangles imply cities and villages with multi-ethnic populations with the order of the stripes following the ethnic composition of the settlement.
context_page_description: Hunyad was an administrative county of the Kingdom of Hungary, of the Eastern Hungarian Kingdom and of the Principality of Transylvania. Its territory is now in Romania in Transylvania. The capital of the county was Déva.
context_section_description: In 1900, the county had a population of 303,838 people and was composed of the following linguistic communities:
  Total:
  Romanian: 257,013 (84.6%)
  Hungarian: 32,316 (10.6%)
  German: 9,189 (3.0%)
  Ruthenian: 697 (0.2%)
  Slovak: 611 (0.2%)
  Croatian: 111 (0.0%)
  Serbian: 56 (0.0%)
  Other or unknown: 3,845 (1.3%)
  According to the census of 1900, the county was composed of the following religious communities:
  Total:
  Eastern Orthodox: 204,350 (67.3%)
  Greek Catholic: 55,116 (18.1%)
  Roman Catholic: 24,993 (8.2%)
  Calvinist: 11,398 (3.8%)
  Jewish: 4,056 (1.3%)
  Lutheran: 3,269 (1.1%)
  Unitarian: 632 (0.2%)
  Other or unknown: 24 (0.0%)
  In 1910, county had a population of 340,135 people and was composed of the following linguistic communities:
  Total:
  Romanian: 271,675 (79.9%)
  Hungarian: 52,720 (15.5%)
  German: 8,101 (2.4%)
  Slovak: 1,024 (0.3%)
  Ruthenian: 606 (0.2%)
  Croatian: 195 (0.0%)
  Serbian: 140 (0.0%)
  Other or unknown: 5,674 (1.7%)
  According to the census of 1910, the county was composed of the following religious communities:
  Total:
  Eastern Orthodox: 217,425 (63.9%)
  Greek Catholic: 60,024 (17.6%)
  Roman Catholic: 34,668 (10.2%)
  Calvinist: 16,675 (4.9%)
  Jewish: 5,679 (1.7%)
  Lutheran: 4,110 (1.2%)
  Unitarianist: 1,525 (0.4%)
  Other or unknown: 29 (0.0%)
caption: Ethnic map of the county with data of the 1910 census (see the key in the description).
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