Editing Isaccea (section)

==Demographics==
{{Historical populations
|1828|784
|1912|4112
|1930|4576
|1948|4653
|1956|5203
|1966|5059
|1977|5347
|1992|5639
|2002|5374
|2011|5026
|footnote = <ref>[http://www.tulcea.insse.ro/phpfiles/ComunicatPresaDateProvizoriiRPL2011Tulcea.pdf Recensământul Populaţiei 2011]{{dead link|date=November 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>}}

The majority of the population is formed by [[Romanian Orthodox Church|Orthodox Christian]] [[Romanians]], but there is also a 4% minority of Muslim [[Turkish people|Turks]]. In 1516, it was a purely Christian village, with 163 households;<ref name="Kiel, 294">Kiel, 294</ref> in 1518, there were 256 Christian houses.<ref name="beldiceanu">{{in lang|fr}} Nicoară Beldiceanu; Jean-Louis Bacque-Grammont; Matei Cazacu, ''Recherches sur les Ottomans et la Moldavie ponto-danubienne entre 1484 et 1520'', Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London ({{ISSN|0041-977X}}), Vol. 45, No. 1. (1982), pp. 55.</ref> By the end of the 16th century, the town grew to 332 Christian households and 25 Muslim households, of which half were new converts.<ref name="Kiel, 294"/>

[[Image:Ethnic map Northern Dobruja 1861.jpg|thumb|330px|An 1861 map shows the ethnic groups of northern Dobruja. Around Isaccea (''Isaktcha''), most of the inhabitants were Romanians ("Moldavians" on the map, in blue)]]

===Ethnic structure===
In 1828, there were 363 Romanians, 183 Turks, 163 Cossacks, 29 Greeks, 20 Jews and 3 Armenians.<ref name="inthist"/>

According to the 2011 Romanian census, the ethnic structure of the population of Isaccea was the following:
{| class=wikitable
!Ethnicity
!Number
!Percentage
|-
| Romanian
| 4,638
| 93.6%
|-
| Turkish
| 90
| 1.81%
|-
| Ukrainian
| 11
| 0.22%
|-
| Roma
| 209
| 4.21%
|}

===Religion===
[[Image:Moske Isaccea.jpg|right|thumb|170px|Isaccea Mosque]]
{| class="wikitable"
!Religion
!Number
!Percentage
|-
|Orthodoxy
|5,099
|94.88%
|-
|Islam
|223
|4.14%
|-
|Baptists
|30
|0.55%
|-
|[[Old Calendar Romanian Orthodox Church|Old Calendarists]]
|14
|0.26%
|-
|Other/none
|8
|0.17%
|}