Chandigarh
Population
- Population
- 10.55 LIndia 121.09 Cr
- Urban %
- 97.25%India 31.14%
Literacy
- Literacy
- 86.05%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 89.99%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 81.19%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 8.80 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 818 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 880 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 11.32%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 18.86%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 0.00%India 8.63%
- Household
- 4.38India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 38.29%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 16.00%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 95.49%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 61.71%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.
Chandigarh in context
With 10,55,450 people at the 2011 Census, Chandigarh was the 431st most populous of India's 640 districts and the most populous of Chandigarh's 1. That is 100.0% of everyone living in Chandigarh at the time.
Literacy stood at 86.05%, 13.1 points above the national 72.98% — level with the Chandigarh average. That ranked it 59th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 8.8 points, 7.4 points below the national gap of 16.3.
The sex ratio was 818 women per 1,000 men (level with the Chandigarh figure of 818). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 880, 38 below the national 918.
Chandigarh contained 6 towns — 1 with a municipal body of some kind, and 5 classed as census towns, meaning they met the census's urban test without having one. The largest was Chandigarh (M Corp.), with 9,61,587 people. That put 97.3% of the district in urban areas, level with the Chandigarh share of 97.3%.
Towns in Chandigarh
Chandigarh has 6 census towns. The largest are listed below.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chandigarh (M Corp.) | 9.62 L | 86.42% | 829 / 1000 |
| Mani Majra (R), Basti Kishangarh, Basti Bhagwanpura (CT) | 15,489 | 75.39% | 683 / 1000 |
| Daria (CT) | 14,470 | 83.24% | 703 / 1000 |
| Mauli Jagran (CT) | 10,786 | 77.74% | 709 / 1000 |
| Behlana (CT) | 8,281 | 90.82% | 758 / 1000 |
| Khuda Alisher (CT) | 6,831 | 87.55% | 826 / 1000 |