Ganderbal
Population
- Population
- 2.97 LIndia 121.09 Cr
- Urban %
- 15.81%India 31.14%
Literacy
- Literacy
- 58.04%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 68.85%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 45.71%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 23.14 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 874 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 863 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 17.01%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 0.04%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 20.53%India 8.63%
- Household
- 6.56India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 33.92%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 19.88%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 52.48%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 66.08%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.
Ganderbal in context
With 2,97,446 people at the 2011 Census, Ganderbal was the 572nd most populous of India's 640 districts and the 17th most populous of Jammu and Kashmir's 22. That is 2.4% of everyone living in Jammu and Kashmir at the time.
Literacy stood at 58.04%, 14.9 points below the national 72.98% — 9.1 points below the Jammu and Kashmir average. That ranked it 587th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 23.1 points, 6.9 points above the national gap of 16.3.
The sex ratio was 874 women per 1,000 men (15 below the Jammu and Kashmir figure of 889). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 863, 55 below the national 918.
Ganderbal contained 3 towns — 1 with a municipal body of some kind, and 2 classed as census towns, meaning they met the census's urban test without having one. The largest was Ganderbal (MC), with 28,233 people. That put 15.8% of the district in urban areas, 11.6 points below the Jammu and Kashmir share of 27.4%.
Towns in Ganderbal
Ganderbal has 3 census towns. The largest are listed below.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ganderbal (MC) | 28,233 | 69.07% | 877 / 1000 |
| Safa Pora (CT) | 10,471 | 65.64% | 878 / 1000 |
| Wail (CT) | 8,335 | 58.72% | 901 / 1000 |