Chamba
Population
- Population
- 5.19 LIndia 121.09 Cr
- Urban %
- 6.96%India 31.14%
Literacy
- Literacy
- 72.17%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 82.59%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 61.67%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 20.92 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 986 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 953 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 13.55%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 21.52%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 26.10%India 8.63%
- Household
- 5.07India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 56.65%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 52.47%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 40.69%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 43.35%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.
Chamba in context
With 5,19,080 people at the 2011 Census, Chamba was the 544th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 7th most populous of Himachal Pradesh's 12. That is 7.6% of everyone living in Himachal Pradesh at the time.
Literacy stood at 72.17%, 0.8 points below the national 72.98% — 10.6 points below the Himachal Pradesh average. That ranked it 320th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 20.9 points, 4.7 points above the national gap of 16.3.
The sex ratio was 986 women per 1,000 men (14 above the Himachal Pradesh figure of 972). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 953, 35 above the national 918.
56.6% of the population were recorded as workers, 4.8 points above the Himachal Pradesh rate. Female work participation was 52.5%, 7.6 points above the state figure.
Chamba contained 5 towns. The largest was Chamba (M Cl), with 19,933 people. That put 7.0% of the district in urban areas, 3.1 points below the Himachal Pradesh share of 10.0%.
Towns in Chamba
Chamba has 5 census towns. The largest are listed below.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chamba (M Cl) | 19,933 | 91.76% | 999 / 1000 |
| Dalhousie (M Cl) | 7,051 | 91.31% | 845 / 1000 |
| Chuari Khas (NP) | 3,770 | 89.28% | 1021 / 1000 |
| Dalhousie (CB) | 3,549 | 97.02% | 392 / 1000 |
| Bakloh (CB) | 1,805 | 94.00% | 570 / 1000 |