The Roma in Plovdiv live in their four own neighborhoods (often refer as ghetto

Ghetto

A ghetto is a section of a city predominantly occupied by a group who live there, especially because of social, economic, or legal issues.The term was originally used in Venice to describe the area where Jews were compelled to live. The term now refers to an overcrowded urban area often associated...

s): Stolipinovo

Stolipinovo

Stolipinovo is a district of the Bulgarian town of Plovdiv and the most populous predominantly Roma-inhabited district on the Balkans with a population of about 45,000 people...

, Sheker Mahala

Sheker Mahala

Sheker Mahala is the second biggest Roma ghetto in Plovdiv. Its population is 10 000. Only 2 000 of them identify themselves as Roma, the rest identify themselves as people of Turkish origin. The district is in the northwestern outskirts of the town....

, Hadji Hassan Mahala

Hadji Hassan Mahala

Hadji Hassan Mahala is the third biggest Roma ghetto in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. With a population of 8,000, residents generally regard themselves as being of the Turkish ethnicity. They do not identify themselves as part of the communities living in Stolipinovo and Sheker Mahala....

 and Arman Mahala

Arman Mahala

Harman Mahala is the fourthly biggest Roma ghetto in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. It is located in the northern part of the city near the road to Karlovo....

. In the 2001 Census, those who identified themselves ethnical as Roma are 5192 people and this is 1.5% of city's population. Many of the Roma are Muslims and therefore, some of them, probably the most, identify themselves as Turks in census , while those who identified themselves as Turks in the 2001 Census are 22 501 people, which is 6.7% of city's population. The final data from the Bulgarian Census 2011 will be published in July, 2011.