Fatehgarh Sahib
Population
- Population
- 6.00 LIndia 121.09 Cr
- Urban %
- 30.91%India 31.14%
Literacy
- Literacy
- 79.35%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 83.33%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 74.80%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 8.53 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 871 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 842 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 10.54%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 32.07%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 0.00%India 8.63%
- Household
- 5.08India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 35.79%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 11.46%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 89.79%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 64.21%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.
Fatehgarh Sahib in context
With 6,00,163 people at the 2011 Census, Fatehgarh Sahib was the 525th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 19th most populous of Punjab's 20. That is 2.2% of everyone living in Punjab at the time.
Literacy stood at 79.35%, 6.4 points above the national 72.98% — 3.5 points above the Punjab average. That ranked it 171st of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 8.5 points, 7.7 points below the national gap of 16.3.
The sex ratio was 871 women per 1,000 men (24 below the Punjab figure of 895). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 842, 76 below the national 918.
Fatehgarh Sahib contained 5 towns. The largest was Gobindgarh (M Cl), with 73,130 people. That put 30.9% of the district in urban areas, 6.6 points below the Punjab share of 37.5%.
Towns in Fatehgarh Sahib
Fatehgarh Sahib has 5 census towns. The largest are listed below.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gobindgarh (M Cl) | 73,130 | 82.98% | 778 / 1000 |
| Sirhind Fatehgarh Sahib (M Cl) | 58,097 | 83.49% | 896 / 1000 |
| Bassi Pathana (M Cl) | 20,288 | 87.39% | 902 / 1000 |
| Amloh (M Cl) | 14,696 | 85.55% | 853 / 1000 |
| Khamanon (NP) | 10,135 | 84.59% | 876 / 1000 |