Chamoli
Population
- Population
- 3.92 LIndia 121.09 Cr
- Urban %
- 15.17%India 31.14%
Literacy
- Literacy
- 82.65%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 93.40%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 72.32%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 21.08 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 1019 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 889 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 13.32%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 20.25%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 3.13%India 8.63%
- Household
- 4.40India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 46.20%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 44.08%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 63.62%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 53.80%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.
Chamoli in context
With 3,91,605 people at the 2011 Census, Chamoli was the 561st most populous of India's 640 districts and the 9th most populous of Uttarakhand's 13. That is 3.9% of everyone living in Uttarakhand at the time.
Literacy stood at 82.65%, 9.7 points above the national 72.98% — 3.8 points above the Uttarakhand average. That ranked it 116th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 21.1 points, 4.8 points above the national gap of 16.3.
The sex ratio was 1019 women per 1,000 men (56 above the Uttarakhand figure of 963) — one of the minority of districts where women outnumbered men. Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 889, 29 below the national 918.
46.2% of the population were recorded as workers, 7.8 points above the Uttarakhand rate. Female work participation was 44.1%, 17.4 points above the state figure.
Chamoli contained 6 towns. The largest was Chamoli Gopeshwar (NPP), with 21,447 people. That put 15.2% of the district in urban areas, 15.1 points below the Uttarakhand share of 30.2%.
Towns in Chamoli
Chamoli has 6 census towns. The largest are listed below.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chamoli Gopeshwar (NPP) | 21,447 | 93.31% | 876 / 1000 |
| Joshimath (NPP) | 16,709 | 91.28% | 673 / 1000 |
| Gochar (NP) | 8,864 | 90.14% | 883 / 1000 |
| Karnaprayag (NP) | 8,297 | 91.78% | 822 / 1000 |
| Badrinathpuri (NP) | 2,438 | 95.57% | 187 / 1000 |
| Nandprayag (NP) | 1,641 | 87.05% | 852 / 1000 |