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Gujarat districts

Gujarat

Bharuch

15,51,019
people at the 2011 Census · 8.06 L male, 7.45 L female

Population

Population
15.51 LIndia 121.09 Cr
Urban %
33.85%India 31.14%

Literacy

Literacy
81.51%India 72.98%
Male Lit.
87.45%India 80.88%
Female Lit.
75.09%India 64.63%
Lit. Gap
12.36 ppIndia 16.25 pp

Society

Sex Ratio
925 / 1000India 943 / 1000
Child Sex Ratio
920 / 1000India 918 / 1000
Under 7
11.55%India 13.59%
SC %
4.01%India 16.63%
ST %
31.48%India 8.63%
Household
4.65India 4.85

Work

Workers
40.43%India 39.80%
Female Work
21.23%India 25.52%
Main Workers
83.96%India 75.24%
Non-Workers
59.57%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.

Bharuch in context

With 15,51,019 people at the 2011 Census, Bharuch was the 321st most populous of India's 640 districts and the 18th most populous of Gujarat's 26. That is 2.6% of everyone living in Gujarat at the time.

Literacy stood at 81.51%, 8.5 points above the national 72.98% — 3.5 points above the Gujarat average. That ranked it 135th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 12.4 points, 3.9 points below the national gap of 16.3.

The sex ratio was 925 women per 1,000 men (6 above the Gujarat figure of 919).

Bharuch contained 21 towns — 9 with a municipal body of some kind, and 12 classed as census towns, meaning they met the census's urban test without having one. The largest was Bharuch (M), with 1,69,007 people. That put 33.9% of the district in urban areas, 8.8 points below the Gujarat share of 42.6%.

Towns in Bharuch

Bharuch has 21 census towns. The largest are listed below.

Largest towns in Bharuch by 2011 Census population.
TownPopulationLiteracySex ratio
Bharuch (M)1.69 L87.27%947 / 1000
Anklesvar (M)73,92890.06%920 / 1000
Jambusar (M)43,34482.36%929 / 1000
Jhadeshwar (CT)28,14891.83%920 / 1000
Gadkhol (CT)25,33288.12%746 / 1000
Anklesvar (INA)24,78995.10%856 / 1000
Bholav (CT)24,60594.22%911 / 1000
Andada (CT)16,73089.63%877 / 1000
All 21 towns in Bharuch