Bhavnagar
Population
- Population
- 28.80 LIndia 121.09 Cr
- Urban %
- 41.05%India 31.14%
Literacy
- Literacy
- 75.52%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 84.39%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 66.08%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 18.31 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 933 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 891 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 13.24%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 5.45%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 0.32%India 8.63%
- Household
- 5.35India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 39.95%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 22.43%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 86.23%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 60.05%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.
Bhavnagar in context
With 28,80,365 people at the 2011 Census, Bhavnagar was the 133rd most populous of India's 640 districts and the 6th most populous of Gujarat's 26. That is 4.8% of everyone living in Gujarat at the time.
Literacy stood at 75.52%, 2.5 points above the national 72.98% — 2.5 points below the Gujarat average. That ranked it 251st of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 18.3 points, 2.1 points above the national gap of 16.3.
The sex ratio was 933 women per 1,000 men (14 above the Gujarat figure of 919). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 891, 27 below the national 918.
Bhavnagar contained 21 towns — 10 with a municipal body of some kind, and 11 classed as census towns, meaning they met the census's urban test without having one. The largest was Bhavnagar (M Corp.), with 5,93,368 people. That put 41.0% of the district in urban areas, 1.6 points below the Gujarat share of 42.6%.
Towns in Bhavnagar
Bhavnagar has 21 census towns. The largest are listed below.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bhavnagar (M Corp.) | 5.93 L | 84.70% | 921 / 1000 |
| Botad (M) | 1.30 L | 81.99% | 926 / 1000 |
| Mahuva (M) | 82,772 | 79.94% | 945 / 1000 |
| Palitana (M) | 64,497 | 78.34% | 942 / 1000 |
| Sihor (M) | 54,547 | 81.11% | 890 / 1000 |
| Gariadhar (M) | 33,949 | 78.83% | 919 / 1000 |
| Gadhada (M) | 29,872 | 77.92% | 939 / 1000 |
| Talaja (M) | 27,822 | 80.39% | 955 / 1000 |