According to the 2011 census, the municipality of Arad was home to 147,992 inhabitants. The ethnic breakdown of the city was as follows: 126,075 Romanians (85.19%); 15,695 Hungarians (10.06%); 2,535 Roma (1.71%); 1,256 Germans (0.84%); and 2,116 of other nationalities (1.22%).