Gandhinagar
Population
- Population
- 13.92 LIndia 121.09 Cr
- Urban %
- 43.16%India 31.14%
Literacy
- Literacy
- 84.16%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 92.01%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 75.76%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 16.25 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 923 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 847 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 12.03%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 7.80%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 1.31%India 8.63%
- Household
- 4.80India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 38.44%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 19.00%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 84.48%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 61.56%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.
Gandhinagar in context
With 13,91,753 people at the 2011 Census, Gandhinagar was the 350th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 20th most populous of Gujarat's 26. That is 2.3% of everyone living in Gujarat at the time.
Literacy stood at 84.16%, 11.2 points above the national 72.98% — 6.1 points above the Gujarat average. That ranked it 85th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 16.3 points, level with the national gap of 16.3.
The sex ratio was 923 women per 1,000 men (level with the Gujarat figure of 919). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 847, 71 below the national 918.
Gandhinagar contained 15 towns — 7 with a municipal body of some kind, and 8 classed as census towns, meaning they met the census's urban test without having one. The largest was Gandhinagar (NA), with 2,06,167 people. That put 43.2% of the district in urban areas, 0.6 points above the Gujarat share of 42.6%.
Towns in Gandhinagar
Gandhinagar has 15 census towns. The largest are listed below.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gandhinagar (NA) | 2.06 L | 91.01% | 918 / 1000 |
| Kalol (M) | 1.13 L | 87.60% | 891 / 1000 |
| Dehgam (M) | 42,632 | 81.85% | 941 / 1000 |
| Mansa (M) | 30,347 | 85.11% | 885 / 1000 |
| Pethapur (M) | 23,497 | 83.35% | 930 / 1000 |
| Saij (CT) | 13,882 | 80.88% | 911 / 1000 |
| Vavol (CT) | 12,628 | 89.44% | 914 / 1000 |
| Adalaj (CT) | 11,957 | 83.70% | 948 / 1000 |