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Uttar Pradesh districts

Uttar Pradesh

Agra

44,18,797
people at the 2011 Census · 23.65 L male, 20.54 L female

Population

Population
44.19 LIndia 121.09 Cr
Urban %
45.81%India 31.14%

Literacy

Literacy
71.58%India 72.98%
Male Lit.
80.62%India 80.88%
Female Lit.
61.18%India 64.63%
Lit. Gap
19.44 ppIndia 16.25 pp

Society

Sex Ratio
868 / 1000India 943 / 1000
Child Sex Ratio
861 / 1000India 918 / 1000
Under 7
15.25%India 13.59%
SC %
22.43%India 16.63%
ST %
0.16%India 8.63%
Household
6.22India 4.85

Work

Workers
31.45%India 39.80%
Female Work
13.15%India 25.52%
Main Workers
75.59%India 75.24%
Non-Workers
68.55%India 60.20%

Population density, land area and decadal growth are not published in the Primary Census Abstract and so are unavailable at district level. See Methodology.

Agra in context

With 44,18,797 people at the 2011 Census, Agra was the 41st most populous of India's 640 districts and the 11th most populous of Uttar Pradesh's 71. That is 2.2% of everyone living in Uttar Pradesh at the time.

Literacy stood at 71.58%, 1.4 points below the national 72.98% — 3.9 points above the Uttar Pradesh average. That ranked it 336th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 19.4 points, 3.2 points above the national gap of 16.3.

The sex ratio was 868 women per 1,000 men (44 below the Uttar Pradesh figure of 912). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 861, 57 below the national 918.

Agra contained 27 towns — 14 with a municipal body of some kind, and 13 classed as census towns, meaning they met the census's urban test without having one. The largest was Agra (M Corp.), with 15,85,704 people. That put 45.8% of the district in urban areas, 23.5 points above the Uttar Pradesh share of 22.3%.

Towns in Agra

Agra has 27 census towns. The largest are listed below.

Largest towns in Agra by 2011 Census population.
TownPopulationLiteracySex ratio
Agra (M Corp.)15.86 L73.11%875 / 1000
Agra (CB)53,05381.04%821 / 1000
Shamsabad (NPP)33,14467.38%901 / 1000
Fatehpur Sikri (NPP)32,90562.08%892 / 1000
Dhanauli (CT)28,99064.07%864 / 1000
Kiraoali (NP)23,78865.42%883 / 1000
Fatehabad (NP)23,27869.99%884 / 1000
Achhnera (NPP)22,78168.69%880 / 1000
All 27 towns in Agra