Bikaner
Population
- Population
- 23.64 LIndia 121.09 Cr
- Urban %
- 33.86%India 31.14%
Literacy
- Literacy
- 65.13%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 75.90%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 53.23%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 22.67 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 905 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 908 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 16.94%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 20.88%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 0.33%India 8.63%
- Household
- 6.14India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 41.72%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 30.77%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 76.33%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 58.28%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.
Bikaner in context
With 23,63,937 people at the 2011 Census, Bikaner was the 191st most populous of India's 640 districts and the 11th most populous of Rajasthan's 33. That is 3.4% of everyone living in Rajasthan at the time.
Literacy stood at 65.13%, 7.9 points below the national 72.98% — 1.0 points below the Rajasthan average. That ranked it 479th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 22.7 points, 6.4 points above the national gap of 16.3.
The sex ratio was 905 women per 1,000 men (23 below the Rajasthan figure of 928).
Bikaner contained 6 towns — 4 with a municipal body of some kind, and 2 classed as census towns, meaning they met the census's urban test without having one. The largest was Bikaner (M Corp.), with 6,44,406 people. That put 33.9% of the district in urban areas, 9.0 points above the Rajasthan share of 24.9%.
Towns in Bikaner
Bikaner has 6 census towns. The largest are listed below.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bikaner (M Corp.) | 6.44 L | 79.29% | 904 / 1000 |
| Nokha (M) | 62,699 | 76.67% | 928 / 1000 |
| Dungargarh (M) | 53,294 | 70.64% | 939 / 1000 |
| Deshnoke (M) | 18,470 | 66.76% | 937 / 1000 |
| Beriyawali (CT) | 11,831 | 75.87% | 887 / 1000 |
| Kolayat (CT) | 9,684 | 60.70% | 895 / 1000 |