Anantnag
Population
- Population
- 10.79 LIndia 121.09 Cr
- Urban %
- 26.23%India 31.14%
Literacy
- Literacy
- 62.69%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 72.66%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 52.19%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 20.47 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 927 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 841 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 19.33%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 0.17%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 10.75%India 8.63%
- Household
- 7.02India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 36.13%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 28.07%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 45.37%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 63.87%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.
Anantnag in context
With 10,78,692 people at the 2011 Census, Anantnag was the 422nd most populous of India's 640 districts and the 3rd most populous of Jammu and Kashmir's 22. That is 8.6% of everyone living in Jammu and Kashmir at the time.
Literacy stood at 62.69%, 10.3 points below the national 72.98% — 4.5 points below the Jammu and Kashmir average. That ranked it 528th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 20.5 points, 4.2 points above the national gap of 16.3.
The sex ratio was 927 women per 1,000 men (38 above the Jammu and Kashmir figure of 889). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 841, 77 below the national 918.
Female work participation was 28.1%, 9.0 points above the state figure.
Anantnag contained 12 towns. The largest was Anantnag (M Cl), with 1,09,433 people. That put 26.2% of the district in urban areas, 1.1 points below the Jammu and Kashmir share of 27.4%.
Towns in Anantnag
Anantnag has 12 census towns. The largest are listed below.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anantnag (M Cl) | 1.09 L | 76.17% | 927 / 1000 |
| Duru Verinag (MC) | 22,968 | 72.05% | 828 / 1000 |
| Bijbehara (MC) | 22,789 | 75.12% | 890 / 1000 |
| Achhabal (MC) | 17,556 | 71.24% | 953 / 1000 |
| Arwani (MC) | 11,815 | 60.83% | 983 / 1000 |
| Qazi Gund (MC) | 9,871 | 70.21% | 815 / 1000 |
| Pahalgam (MC) | 9,264 | 64.87% | 672 / 1000 |
| Mattan (MC) | 9,246 | 73.33% | 813 / 1000 |