Ahmadabad
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.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ahmadabad (M Corp.) | 55.78 L | 88.29% | 898 / 1000 |
| Dholka (M) | 79,531 | 82.72% | 932 / 1000 |
| Viramgam (M) | 55,821 | 84.41% | 930 / 1000 |
| Sanand (M) | 41,530 | 85.89% | 886 / 1000 |
| Bopal (CT) | 37,635 | 94.20% | 918 / 1000 |
| Bavla (M) | 36,206 | 85.39% | 895 / 1000 |
| Dhandhuka (M) | 32,475 | 81.39% | 910 / 1000 |
| Bareja (M) | 19,690 | 81.33% | 913 / 1000 |