Ambala
Population
- Population
- 11.28 LIndia 121.09 Cr
- Urban %
- 44.38%India 31.14%
Literacy
- Literacy
- 81.75%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 87.34%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 75.50%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 11.84 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 885 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 810 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 11.32%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 26.25%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 0.00%India 8.63%
- Household
- 5.03India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 32.98%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 9.82%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 85.85%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 67.02%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.
Ambala in context
With 11,28,350 people at the 2011 Census, Ambala was the 410th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 11th most populous of Haryana's 21. That is 4.5% of everyone living in Haryana at the time.
Literacy stood at 81.75%, 8.8 points above the national 72.98% — 6.2 points above the Haryana average. That ranked it 132nd of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 11.8 points, 4.4 points below the national gap of 16.3.
The sex ratio was 885 women per 1,000 men (6 above the Haryana figure of 879). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 810, 108 below the national 918.
Female work participation was 9.8%, 8.0 points below the state figure.
Ambala contained 15 towns — 4 with a municipal body of some kind, and 11 classed as census towns, meaning they met the census's urban test without having one. The largest was Ambala (M Cl), with 1,95,153 people. That put 44.4% of the district in urban areas, 9.5 points above the Haryana share of 34.9%.
Towns in Ambala
Ambala has 15 census towns. The largest are listed below.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ambala (M Cl) | 1.95 L | 87.35% | 902 / 1000 |
| Ambala Sadar (M Cl) | 1.03 L | 88.46% | 921 / 1000 |
| Ambala Cantt. (CB) | 55,370 | 91.24% | 666 / 1000 |
| Babiyal (CT) | 26,412 | 87.93% | 919 / 1000 |
| Naraingarh (MC) | 22,832 | 86.51% | 900 / 1000 |
| Barara (203) (CT) | 21,545 | 85.01% | 900 / 1000 |
| Kardhan (CT) | 18,662 | 87.03% | 903 / 1000 |
| Jandli (Part) (113) (CT) | 14,397 | 87.54% | 873 / 1000 |