Amritsar
Population
- Population
- 24.91 LIndia 121.09 Cr
- Urban %
- 53.58%India 31.14%
Literacy
- Literacy
- 76.27%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 80.15%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 71.96%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 8.19 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 889 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 826 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 11.31%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 30.95%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 0.00%India 8.63%
- Household
- 5.09India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 36.85%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 15.58%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 85.77%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 63.15%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.
Amritsar in context
With 24,90,656 people at the 2011 Census, Amritsar was the 174th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 2nd most populous of Punjab's 20. That is 9.0% of everyone living in Punjab at the time.
Literacy stood at 76.27%, 3.3 points above the national 72.98% — level with the Punjab average. That ranked it 226th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 8.2 points, 8.1 points below the national gap of 16.3.
The sex ratio was 889 women per 1,000 men (6 below the Punjab figure of 895). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 826, 92 below the national 918.
Amritsar contained 15 towns — 8 with a municipal body of some kind, and 7 classed as census towns, meaning they met the census's urban test without having one. The largest was Amritsar (M Corp.), with 11,32,383 people. That put 53.6% of the district in urban areas, 16.1 points above the Punjab share of 37.5%.
Towns in Amritsar
Amritsar has 15 census towns. The largest are listed below.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Amritsar (M Corp.) | 11.32 L | 84.19% | 884 / 1000 |
| Jandiala (M Cl) | 29,232 | 78.53% | 867 / 1000 |
| Ajnala (NP) | 21,107 | 82.19% | 860 / 1000 |
| Nangli (CT) | 20,440 | 71.84% | 871 / 1000 |
| Rayya (NP) | 14,506 | 84.86% | 913 / 1000 |
| Majitha (M Cl) | 14,503 | 76.37% | 899 / 1000 |
| Raja Sansi (NP) | 14,298 | 74.94% | 881 / 1000 |
| Budha Theh (CT) | 10,979 | 85.03% | 792 / 1000 |