Badgam

With 7,53,745 people at the 2011 Census, Badgam was the 492nd most populous of India's 640 districts and the 6th most populous of Jammu and Kashmir's 22. That is 6.0% of everyone living in Jammu and Kashmir at the time.

Literacy stood at 56.08%, 16.9 points below the national 72.98% — 11.1 points below the Jammu and Kashmir average. That ranked it 602nd of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 21.4 points, 5.2 points above the national gap of 16.3.

The sex ratio was 894 women per 1,000 men (5 above the Jammu and Kashmir figure of 889). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 832, 86 below the national 918.

28.5% of the population were recorded as workers, 6.0 points below the Jammu and Kashmir rate.

Badgam contained 9 towns — 6 with a municipal body of some kind, and 3 classed as census towns, meaning they met the census's urban test without having one. The largest was Badgam (MC), with 15,338 people. That put 13.0% of the district in urban areas, 14.4 points below the Jammu and Kashmir share of 27.4%.