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Uttarakhand districts

Uttarakhand

Champawat

2,59,648
people at the 2011 Census · 1.31 L male, 1.29 L female

Population

Population
2.60 LIndia 121.09 Cr
Urban %
14.77%India 31.14%

Literacy

Literacy
79.83%India 72.98%
Male Lit.
91.61%India 80.88%
Female Lit.
68.05%India 64.63%
Lit. Gap
23.56 ppIndia 16.25 pp

Society

Sex Ratio
980 / 1000India 943 / 1000
Child Sex Ratio
873 / 1000India 918 / 1000
Under 7
14.26%India 13.59%
SC %
18.25%India 16.63%
ST %
0.52%India 8.63%
Household
4.81India 4.85

Work

Workers
38.35%India 39.80%
Female Work
30.45%India 25.52%
Main Workers
62.97%India 75.24%
Non-Workers
61.65%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.

Champawat in context

With 2,59,648 people at the 2011 Census, Champawat was the 579th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 12th most populous of Uttarakhand's 13. That is 2.6% of everyone living in Uttarakhand at the time.

Literacy stood at 79.83%, 6.8 points above the national 72.98% — 1.0 points above the Uttarakhand average. That ranked it 164th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 23.6 points, 7.3 points above the national gap of 16.3.

The sex ratio was 980 women per 1,000 men (17 above the Uttarakhand figure of 963). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 873, 45 below the national 918.

Champawat contained 4 towns — 3 with a municipal body of some kind, and 1 classed as census towns, meaning they met the census's urban test without having one. The largest was Tanakpur (NPP), with 17,626 people. That put 14.8% of the district in urban areas, 15.5 points below the Uttarakhand share of 30.2%.

Towns in Champawat

Champawat has 4 census towns. The largest are listed below.

Largest towns in Champawat by 2011 Census population.
TownPopulationLiteracySex ratio
Tanakpur (NPP)17,62678.24%907 / 1000
Banbasa (CT)7,99077.19%887 / 1000
Lohaghat (NP)7,92692.31%860 / 1000
Champawat (NP)4,80191.69%888 / 1000