At the 2002 census, the commune had 5,423 inhabitants, of which 71.2% were
Romanians, 27.4%
Hungarians, and 1.3%
Roma; 66.6% were
Romanian Orthodox, 13.8%
Unitarian, 10.1%
Reformed, 4%
Roman Catholic, 2.4% belonged to another religion, and 0.9%
Pentecostal. Ar the
2021 census, Mihai Viteazu had a population of 5,575; of those, 73.7% were Romanians, 18.17% Hungarians, and 1.29% Roma. ==Natives==