Hamirpur
Population
- Population
- 4.55 LIndia 121.09 Cr
- Urban %
- 6.91%India 31.14%
Literacy
- Literacy
- 88.15%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 94.36%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 82.62%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 11.74 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 1095 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 887 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 10.68%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 24.02%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 0.67%India 8.63%
- Household
- 4.31India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 53.20%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 51.83%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 52.14%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 46.80%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.
Hamirpur in context
With 4,54,768 people at the 2011 Census, Hamirpur was the 552nd most populous of India's 640 districts and the 8th most populous of Himachal Pradesh's 12. That is 6.6% of everyone living in Himachal Pradesh at the time.
Literacy stood at 88.15%, 15.2 points above the national 72.98% — 5.4 points above the Himachal Pradesh average. That ranked it 37th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 11.7 points, 4.5 points below the national gap of 16.3.
The sex ratio was 1095 women per 1,000 men (123 above the Himachal Pradesh figure of 972) — one of the minority of districts where women outnumbered men. Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 887, 31 below the national 918.
Female work participation was 51.8%, 7.0 points above the state figure.
Hamirpur contained 4 towns. The largest was Hamirpur (M Cl), with 17,604 people. That put 6.9% of the district in urban areas, 3.1 points below the Himachal Pradesh share of 10.0%.
Towns in Hamirpur
Hamirpur has 4 census towns. The largest are listed below.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hamirpur (M Cl) | 17,604 | 93.01% | 944 / 1000 |
| Tira Sujanpur (NP) | 7,943 | 91.73% | 864 / 1000 |
| Nadaun (NP) | 4,430 | 92.25% | 955 / 1000 |
| Bhota (NP) | 1,453 | 91.44% | 969 / 1000 |