Garhwal
Population
- Population
- 6.87 LIndia 121.09 Cr
- Urban %
- 16.40%India 31.14%
Literacy
- Literacy
- 82.02%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 92.71%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 72.60%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 20.11 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 1103 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 904 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 12.21%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 17.80%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 0.32%India 8.63%
- Household
- 4.25India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 39.89%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 35.17%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 59.98%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 60.11%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.
Garhwal in context
With 6,87,271 people at the 2011 Census, Garhwal was the 505th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 5th most populous of Uttarakhand's 13. That is 6.8% of everyone living in Uttarakhand at the time.
Literacy stood at 82.02%, 9.0 points above the national 72.98% — 3.2 points above the Uttarakhand average. That ranked it 128th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 20.1 points, 3.9 points above the national gap of 16.3.
The sex ratio was 1103 women per 1,000 men (140 above the Uttarakhand figure of 963) — one of the minority of districts where women outnumbered men.
Female work participation was 35.2%, 8.5 points above the state figure.
Garhwal contained 9 towns — 6 with a municipal body of some kind, and 3 classed as census towns, meaning they met the census's urban test without having one. The largest was Kotdwara (NPP), with 28,859 people. That put 16.4% of the district in urban areas, 13.8 points below the Uttarakhand share of 30.2%.
Towns in Garhwal
Garhwal has 9 census towns. The largest are listed below.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kotdwara (NPP) | 28,859 | 85.45% | 909 / 1000 |
| Pauri (NPP) | 25,440 | 92.18% | 943 / 1000 |
| Srinagar (NPP) | 20,115 | 92.03% | 871 / 1000 |
| Kashirampur (CT) | 10,837 | 90.07% | 987 / 1000 |
| Padampur Sukhran (CT) | 9,802 | 93.55% | 1162 / 1000 |
| Lansdowne (CB) | 5,667 | 95.90% | 604 / 1000 |
| Jonk (CT) | 4,669 | 88.56% | 735 / 1000 |
| Dogadda (NPP) | 2,422 | 90.18% | 993 / 1000 |