Ajmer

With 25,83,052 people at the 2011 Census, Ajmer was the 161st most populous of India's 640 districts and the 8th most populous of Rajasthan's 33. That is 3.8% of everyone living in Rajasthan at the time.

Literacy stood at 69.33%, 3.7 points below the national 72.98% — 3.2 points above the Rajasthan average. That ranked it 392nd of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 26.8 points, 10.5 points above the national gap of 16.3.

The sex ratio was 951 women per 1,000 men (23 above the Rajasthan figure of 928). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 901, 17 below the national 918.

Female work participation was 29.2%, 5.9 points below the state figure.

Ajmer contained 11 towns — 8 with a municipal body of some kind, and 3 classed as census towns, meaning they met the census's urban test without having one. The largest was Ajmer (M Corp.), with 5,42,321 people. That put 40.1% of the district in urban areas, 15.2 points above the Rajasthan share of 24.9%.