Hardwar

With 18,90,422 people at the 2011 Census, Hardwar was the 248th most populous of India's 640 districts and the most populous of Uttarakhand's 13. That is 18.7% of everyone living in Uttarakhand at the time.

Literacy stood at 73.43%, level with the national 72.98% — 5.4 points below the Uttarakhand average. That ranked it 286th 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 880 women per 1,000 men (83 below the Uttarakhand figure of 963). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 877, 41 below the national 918.

30.6% of the population were recorded as workers, 7.8 points below the Uttarakhand rate. Female work participation was 9.1%, 17.6 points below the state figure.

Hardwar contained 24 towns — 8 with a municipal body of some kind, and 16 classed as census towns, meaning they met the census's urban test without having one. The largest was Hardwar (NPP), with 2,28,832 people. That put 36.7% of the district in urban areas, 6.4 points above the Uttarakhand share of 30.2%.