Dehradun
Population
- Population
- 16.97 LIndia 121.09 Cr
- Urban %
- 55.52%India 31.14%
Literacy
- Literacy
- 84.25%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 89.40%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 78.54%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 10.86 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 902 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 889 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 11.88%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 13.49%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 6.58%India 8.63%
- Household
- 4.89India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 34.35%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 15.41%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 83.77%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 65.65%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.
Dehradun in context
With 16,96,694 people at the 2011 Census, Dehradun was the 291st most populous of India's 640 districts and the 2nd most populous of Uttarakhand's 13. That is 16.8% of everyone living in Uttarakhand at the time.
Literacy stood at 84.25%, 11.3 points above the national 72.98% — 5.4 points above the Uttarakhand average. That ranked it 84th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 10.9 points, 5.4 points below the national gap of 16.3.
The sex ratio was 902 women per 1,000 men (61 below the Uttarakhand figure of 963). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 889, 29 below the national 918.
34.4% of the population were recorded as workers, 4.0 points below the Uttarakhand rate. Female work participation was 15.4%, 11.3 points below the state figure.
Dehradun contained 22 towns — 11 with a municipal body of some kind, and 11 classed as census towns, meaning they met the census's urban test without having one. The largest was Dehradun (M.Corp), with 5,69,578 people. That put 55.5% of the district in urban areas, 25.3 points above the Uttarakhand share of 30.2%.
Towns in Dehradun
Dehradun has 22 census towns. The largest are listed below.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dehradun (M.Corp) | 5.70 L | 88.36% | 907 / 1000 |
| Rishikesh (NPP) | 70,499 | 85.99% | 852 / 1000 |
| Dehradun (CB) | 52,716 | 91.97% | 780 / 1000 |
| Raipur (CT) | 32,900 | 91.58% | 933 / 1000 |
| Mussoorie (NPP) | 30,118 | 89.69% | 812 / 1000 |
| Clement Town (CB) | 22,557 | 90.40% | 763 / 1000 |
| Central Hope Town (CT) | 16,880 | 84.58% | 798 / 1000 |
| Vikasnagar (NPP) | 13,927 | 88.25% | 929 / 1000 |