East
Population
- Population
- 17.09 LIndia 121.09 Cr
- Urban %
- 99.79%India 31.14%
Literacy
- Literacy
- 89.31%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 93.13%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 84.99%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 8.14 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 884 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 871 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 11.37%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 16.46%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 0.00%India 8.63%
- Household
- 4.76India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 33.91%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 11.57%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 95.74%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 66.09%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.
East in context
With 17,09,346 people at the 2011 Census, East was the 284th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 6th most populous of Delhi's 9. That is 10.2% of everyone living in Delhi at the time.
Literacy stood at 89.31%, 16.3 points above the national 72.98% — 3.1 points above the Delhi average. That ranked it 25th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 8.1 points, 8.1 points below the national gap of 16.3.
The sex ratio was 884 women per 1,000 men (16 above the Delhi figure of 868). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 871, 47 below the national 918.
East contained 10 towns — 3 with a municipal body of some kind, and 7 classed as census towns, meaning they met the census's urban test without having one. The largest urban settlement was the part of DMC (U) falling inside the district, with 6,44,194 people. That put 99.8% of the district in urban areas, 2.3 points above the Delhi share of 97.5%.
Towns in East
East has 10 census towns. The largest are listed below.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| DMC (U) (Part) | 6.44 L | 90.22% | 873 / 1000 |
| DMC (U) (Part) | 3.94 L | 90.65% | 895 / 1000 |
| DMC (U) (Part) | 2.48 L | 89.58% | 896 / 1000 |
| Dallo Pura (CT) | 1.55 L | 83.15% | 905 / 1000 |
| Gharoli (CT) | 92,540 | 88.70% | 863 / 1000 |
| Chilla Saroda Bangar (CT) | 83,217 | 87.77% | 863 / 1000 |
| Kondli (CT) | 38,207 | 91.10% | 847 / 1000 |
| Gharonda Neemka Bangar alias Patpar Ganj (CT) | 37,876 | 85.61% | 893 / 1000 |