Daman
Population
- Population
- 1.91 LIndia 121.09 Cr
- Urban %
- 83.10%India 31.14%
Literacy
- Literacy
- 88.07%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 91.61%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 80.98%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 10.63 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 534 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 897 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 10.70%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 2.23%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 7.97%India 8.63%
- Household
- 3.79India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 55.20%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 16.57%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 96.40%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 44.80%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.
Daman in context
With 1,91,173 people at the 2011 Census, Daman was the 592nd most populous of India's 640 districts and the most populous of Daman and Diu's 2. That is 78.6% of everyone living in Daman and Diu at the time.
Literacy stood at 88.07%, 15.1 points above the national 72.98% — 1.0 points above the Daman and Diu average. That ranked it 38th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 10.6 points, 5.6 points below the national gap of 16.3.
The sex ratio was 534 women per 1,000 men (84 below the Daman and Diu figure of 618). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 897, 21 below the national 918.
55.2% of the population were recorded as workers, 5.3 points above the Daman and Diu rate.
Daman contained 7 towns — 1 with a municipal body of some kind, and 6 classed as census towns, meaning they met the census's urban test without having one. The largest was Dadhel (CT), with 52,578 people. That put 83.1% of the district in urban areas, 7.9 points above the Daman and Diu share of 75.2%.
Towns in Daman
Daman has 7 census towns. The largest are listed below.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dadhel (CT) | 52,578 | 87.24% | 329 / 1000 |
| Daman (M CI) | 44,282 | 91.12% | 921 / 1000 |
| Kachigam (CT) | 18,434 | 86.96% | 356 / 1000 |
| Kadaiya (CT) | 12,717 | 89.34% | 341 / 1000 |
| Dunetha (CT) | 12,470 | 88.51% | 648 / 1000 |
| Bhimpore (CT) | 10,936 | 84.72% | 318 / 1000 |
| Marwad (CT) | 7,443 | 89.19% | 575 / 1000 |