Azamgarh
Population
- Population
- 46.14 LIndia 121.09 Cr
- Urban %
- 8.53%India 31.14%
Literacy
- Literacy
- 70.93%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 81.34%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 60.91%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 20.43 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 1019 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 919 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 15.30%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 25.39%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 0.20%India 8.63%
- Household
- 6.94India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 29.74%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 18.47%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 57.16%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 70.26%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.
Azamgarh in context
With 46,13,913 people at the 2011 Census, Azamgarh was the 30th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 4th most populous of Uttar Pradesh's 71. That is 2.3% of everyone living in Uttar Pradesh at the time.
Literacy stood at 70.93%, 2.0 points below the national 72.98% — 3.3 points above the Uttar Pradesh average. That ranked it 354th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 20.4 points, 4.2 points above the national gap of 16.3.
The sex ratio was 1019 women per 1,000 men (107 above the Uttar Pradesh figure of 912) — one of the minority of districts where women outnumbered men.
29.7% of the population were recorded as workers, 3.2 points below the Uttar Pradesh rate.
Azamgarh contained 20 towns — 12 with a municipal body of some kind, and 8 classed as census towns, meaning they met the census's urban test without having one. The largest was Azamgarh (NPP), with 1,10,983 people. That put 8.5% of the district in urban areas, 13.7 points below the Uttar Pradesh share of 22.3%.
Towns in Azamgarh
Azamgarh has 20 census towns. The largest are listed below.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Azamgarh (NPP) | 1.11 L | 85.23% | 918 / 1000 |
| Mubarakpur (NPP) | 70,463 | 67.01% | 950 / 1000 |
| Amilo (CT) | 30,339 | 72.07% | 986 / 1000 |
| Sarai Mir (NP) | 19,055 | 82.12% | 952 / 1000 |
| Barahatir Jagdishpur (CT) | 15,367 | 75.09% | 943 / 1000 |
| Mehnagar (NP) | 14,841 | 74.80% | 933 / 1000 |
| Nizamabad (NP) | 13,848 | 80.55% | 939 / 1000 |
| Katghar Lalganj (NP) | 13,467 | 78.47% | 998 / 1000 |