Bharuch
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.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bharuch (M) | 1.69 L | 87.27% | 947 / 1000 |
| Anklesvar (M) | 73,928 | 90.06% | 920 / 1000 |
| Jambusar (M) | 43,344 | 82.36% | 929 / 1000 |
| Jhadeshwar (CT) | 28,148 | 91.83% | 920 / 1000 |
| Gadkhol (CT) | 25,332 | 88.12% | 746 / 1000 |
| Anklesvar (INA) | 24,789 | 95.10% | 856 / 1000 |
| Bholav (CT) | 24,605 | 94.22% | 911 / 1000 |
| Andada (CT) | 16,730 | 89.63% | 877 / 1000 |