 Two other villages, Otelec and Iohanisfeld, which had been part of Uivar commune since 1968, were detached in 2008 to form Otelec commune.At the 2011 census, 76.7% of inhabitants were Romanians, 17% Hungarians, 5.2% Roma and 0.7% Germans.At the 2002 census, 53% were Romanian Orthodox, 31.1% Roman Catholic, 9.1% Greek-Catholic and 3.9% Pentecostal.