Almora

With 6,22,506 people at the 2011 Census, Almora was the 517th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 6th most populous of Uttarakhand's 13. That is 6.2% of everyone living in Uttarakhand at the time.

Literacy stood at 80.47%, 7.5 points above the national 72.98% — 1.7 points above the Uttarakhand average. That ranked it 148th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 22.9 points, 6.7 points above the national gap of 16.3.

The sex ratio was 1139 women per 1,000 men (176 above the Uttarakhand figure of 963) — one of the minority of districts where women outnumbered men.

47.9% of the population were recorded as workers, 9.5 points above the Uttarakhand rate. Female work participation was 47.0%, 20.3 points above the state figure.

Almora contained 5 towns — 4 with a municipal body of some kind, and 1 classed as census towns, meaning they met the census's urban test without having one. The largest was Almora (NPP), with 34,122 people. That put 10.0% of the district in urban areas, 20.2 points below the Uttarakhand share of 30.2%.