Bathinda

With 13,88,525 people at the 2011 Census, Bathinda was the 353rd most populous of India's 640 districts and the 9th most populous of Punjab's 20. That is 5.0% of everyone living in Punjab at the time.

Literacy stood at 68.28%, 4.7 points below the national 72.98% — 7.6 points below the Punjab average. That ranked it 417th 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 868 women per 1,000 men (27 below the Punjab figure of 895). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 854, 64 below the national 918.

39.6% of the population were recorded as workers, 3.9 points above the Punjab rate.

Bathinda contained 12 towns — 10 with a municipal body of some kind, and 2 classed as census towns, meaning they met the census's urban test without having one. The largest was Bathinda (M Corp.), with 2,85,788 people. That put 36.0% of the district in urban areas, 1.5 points below the Punjab share of 37.5%.