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Gujarat districts

Gujarat

Ahmadabad

72,14,225
people at the 2011 Census · 37.88 L male, 34.26 L female

Population

Population
72.14 LIndia 121.09 Cr
Urban %
84.04%India 31.14%

Literacy

Literacy
85.31%India 72.98%
Male Lit.
90.74%India 80.88%
Female Lit.
79.35%India 64.63%
Lit. Gap
11.39 ppIndia 16.25 pp

Society

Sex Ratio
904 / 1000India 943 / 1000
Child Sex Ratio
857 / 1000India 918 / 1000
Under 7
11.68%India 13.59%
SC %
10.53%India 16.63%
ST %
1.24%India 8.63%
Household
4.78India 4.85

Work

Workers
35.97%India 39.80%
Female Work
13.64%India 25.52%
Main Workers
89.88%India 75.24%
Non-Workers
64.03%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.

Ahmadabad in context

With 72,14,225 people at the 2011 Census, Ahmadabad was the 8th most populous of India's 640 districts and the most populous of Gujarat's 26. That is 11.9% of everyone living in Gujarat at the time.

Literacy stood at 85.31%, 12.3 points above the national 72.98% — 7.3 points above the Gujarat average. That ranked it 66th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 11.4 points, 4.9 points below the national gap of 16.3.

The sex ratio was 904 women per 1,000 men (15 below the Gujarat figure of 919). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 857, 61 below the national 918.

36.0% of the population were recorded as workers, 5.0 points below the Gujarat rate. Female work participation was 13.6%, 9.7 points below the state figure.

Ahmadabad contained 13 towns — 9 with a municipal body of some kind, and 4 classed as census towns, meaning they met the census's urban test without having one. The largest was Ahmadabad (M Corp.), with 55,77,940 people. That put 84.0% of the district in urban areas, 41.4 points above the Gujarat share of 42.6%.

Towns in Ahmadabad

Ahmadabad has 13 census towns. The largest are listed below.

Largest towns in Ahmadabad by 2011 Census population.
TownPopulationLiteracySex ratio
Ahmadabad (M Corp.)55.78 L88.29%898 / 1000
Dholka (M)79,53182.72%932 / 1000
Viramgam (M)55,82184.41%930 / 1000
Sanand (M)41,53085.89%886 / 1000
Bopal (CT)37,63594.20%918 / 1000
Bavla (M)36,20685.39%895 / 1000
Dhandhuka (M)32,47581.39%910 / 1000
Bareja (M)19,69081.33%913 / 1000
All 13 towns in Ahmadabad