Central
Population
- Population
- 5.82 LIndia 121.09 Cr
- Urban %
- 100.00%India 31.14%
Literacy
- Literacy
- 85.14%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 87.50%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 82.49%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 5.01 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 892 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 905 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 10.77%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 24.59%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 0.00%India 8.63%
- Household
- 4.87India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 35.61%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 10.84%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 94.50%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 64.39%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.
Central in context
With 5,82,320 people at the 2011 Census, Central was the 530th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 8th most populous of Delhi's 9. That is 3.5% of everyone living in Delhi at the time.
Literacy stood at 85.14%, 12.2 points above the national 72.98% — 1.1 points below the Delhi average. That ranked it 71st of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 5.0 points, 11.2 points below the national gap of 16.3.
The sex ratio was 892 women per 1,000 men (24 above the Delhi figure of 868).
Central contained 4 towns. The largest urban settlement was the part of DMC (U) falling inside the district, with 2,71,108 people. That put 100.0% of the district in urban areas, 2.5 points above the Delhi share of 97.5%.
Towns in Central
Central has 4 census towns. The largest are listed below.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| DMC (U) (Part) | 2.71 L | 82.68% | 892 / 1000 |
| DMC (U) (Part) | 1.72 L | 84.12% | 878 / 1000 |
| DMC (U) (Part) | 1.37 L | 91.05% | 909 / 1000 |
| NDMC (Part) | 2,891 | 90.82% | 874 / 1000 |