Bhiwani

With 16,34,445 people at the 2011 Census, Bhiwani was the 305th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 3rd most populous of Haryana's 21. That is 6.4% of everyone living in Haryana at the time.

Literacy stood at 75.21%, 2.2 points above the national 72.98% — level with the Haryana average. That ranked it 258th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 22.1 points, 5.9 points above the national gap of 16.3.

The sex ratio was 886 women per 1,000 men (7 above the Haryana figure of 879). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 832, 86 below the national 918.

Female work participation was 25.1%, 7.3 points above the state figure.

Bhiwani contained 6 towns — 5 with a municipal body of some kind, and 1 classed as census towns, meaning they met the census's urban test without having one. The largest was Bhiwani (M Cl), with 1,96,057 people. That put 19.7% of the district in urban areas, 15.2 points below the Haryana share of 34.9%.