It is composed of three villages: According to the 2011 census, the population of the commune counts 4476 inhabitants, out of which 63.31% are Romanians, 34.31% Hungarians, 1,89% Roms, 0,2% Germans and 0,3% are of other or undeclared nationalities.

There are to major reasons to this: the Serb emigration to Russia and, more important, the orders coming from Vienna that prohibited any construction near the old fortress.

Austrian Empress Maria Theresa of Austria planned to have the whole population and town of Arad moved to the Zimand puszta (or praedium), mostly uninhabited during the 18th century and until 1852.

Since the farmers in Bánkút puszta could not afford to pay their obligations to the landlord, the army was finally sent against them on 9 March 1852 and the whole village was surrounded.

Andrei Șaguna was founded in 1921 by Romanian Orthodox families, from lands following the dispossession of the Zelenski manor, due to the Romania's agrarian reform of 1921.

Although the three villages of the commune are seen by tourists as transit localities situated along the European road connecting Arad and Oradea, Zimandu Nou has attractive tourist elements as the Utviniș Forest, a forestal reservation with planetree and Turkish hazel bush, as well as the Military Channel, a significant engineering work.