Bijnor

With 36,82,713 people at the 2011 Census, Bijnor was the 73rd most populous of India's 640 districts and the 16th most populous of Uttar Pradesh's 71. That is 1.8% of everyone living in Uttar Pradesh at the time.

Literacy stood at 68.48%, 4.5 points below the national 72.98% — 0.8 points above the Uttar Pradesh average. That ranked it 415th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 16.8 points, 0.6 points above the national gap of 16.3.

The sex ratio was 917 women per 1,000 men (5 above the Uttar Pradesh figure of 912). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 883, 35 below the national 918.

29.5% of the population were recorded as workers, 3.4 points below the Uttar Pradesh rate. Female work participation was 9.4%, 7.3 points below the state figure.

Bijnor contained 26 towns — 18 with a municipal body of some kind, and 8 classed as census towns, meaning they met the census's urban test without having one. The largest was Nagina (NPP), with 95,246 people. That put 25.1% of the district in urban areas, 2.9 points above the Uttar Pradesh share of 22.3%.