Faridkot
Population
- Population
- 6.18 LIndia 121.09 Cr
- Urban %
- 35.15%India 31.14%
Literacy
- Literacy
- 69.55%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 74.60%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 63.91%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 10.69 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 890 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 851 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 11.22%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 38.92%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 0.00%India 8.63%
- Household
- 5.11India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 35.88%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 12.55%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 85.94%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 64.12%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.
Faridkot in context
With 6,17,508 people at the 2011 Census, Faridkot was the 519th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 17th most populous of Punjab's 20. That is 2.2% of everyone living in Punjab at the time.
Literacy stood at 69.55%, 3.4 points below the national 72.98% — 6.3 points below the Punjab average. That ranked it 386th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 10.7 points, 5.6 points below the national gap of 16.3.
The sex ratio was 890 women per 1,000 men (5 below the Punjab figure of 895). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 851, 67 below the national 918.
Faridkot contained 3 towns. The largest was Kot Kapura (M Cl), with 91,979 people. That put 35.1% of the district in urban areas, 2.3 points below the Punjab share of 37.5%.
Towns in Faridkot
Faridkot has 3 census towns. The largest are listed below.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kot Kapura (M Cl) | 91,979 | 77.47% | 893 / 1000 |
| Faridkot (M Cl) | 85,435 | 81.91% | 850 / 1000 |
| Jaitu (M Cl) | 37,004 | 75.41% | 880 / 1000 |