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Rajasthan districts

Rajasthan

Ganganagar

19,69,168
people at the 2011 Census · 10.43 L male, 9.26 L female

Population

Population
19.69 LIndia 121.09 Cr
Urban %
27.19%India 31.14%

Literacy

Literacy
69.64%India 72.98%
Male Lit.
78.50%India 80.88%
Female Lit.
59.70%India 64.63%
Lit. Gap
18.80 ppIndia 16.25 pp

Society

Sex Ratio
887 / 1000India 943 / 1000
Child Sex Ratio
854 / 1000India 918 / 1000
Under 7
12.97%India 13.59%
SC %
36.58%India 16.63%
ST %
0.68%India 8.63%
Household
5.08India 4.85

Work

Workers
46.35%India 39.80%
Female Work
34.17%India 25.52%
Main Workers
74.57%India 75.24%
Non-Workers
53.65%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.

Ganganagar in context

With 19,69,168 people at the 2011 Census, Ganganagar was the 235th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 15th most populous of Rajasthan's 33. That is 2.9% of everyone living in Rajasthan at the time.

Literacy stood at 69.64%, 3.3 points below the national 72.98% — 3.5 points above the Rajasthan average. That ranked it 385th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 18.8 points, 2.6 points above the national gap of 16.3.

The sex ratio was 887 women per 1,000 men (41 below the Rajasthan figure of 928). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 854, 64 below the national 918.

Ganganagar contained 16 towns — 10 with a municipal body of some kind, and 6 classed as census towns, meaning they met the census's urban test without having one. The largest was Ganganagar (M Cl), with 2,24,532 people. That put 27.2% of the district in urban areas, 2.3 points above the Rajasthan share of 24.9%.

Towns in Ganganagar

Ganganagar has 16 census towns. The largest are listed below.

Largest towns in Ganganagar by 2011 Census population.
TownPopulationLiteracySex ratio
Ganganagar (M Cl)2.25 L82.56%859 / 1000
Suratgarh (M)70,53675.68%900 / 1000
Anupgarh (M)30,87776.48%889 / 1000
Raisinghnagar (M)28,33081.09%878 / 1000
Sadulshahar (M)24,98074.30%906 / 1000
Karanpur (M)21,29774.63%891 / 1000
Vijainagar (M)18,42575.46%907 / 1000
Padampur (M)18,42077.86%894 / 1000
All 16 towns in Ganganagar