In this paper, we show that various kinds of integer polyno-mials with prescribed properties of their roots have positive density. For example, we prove that almost all integer polyno-mials have exactly one or two roots with maximal modulus. We also show that for any positive integer nand any set of ndistinct points symmetric with respect to the real line, there is a positive density of integer polynomials of degree n, height at most Hand Galois group Snwhose roots are close to the given npoints.