Hisar

With 17,43,931 people at the 2011 Census, Hisar was the 277th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 2nd most populous of Haryana's 21. That is 6.9% of everyone living in Haryana at the time.

Literacy stood at 72.89%, level with the national 72.98% — 2.7 points below the Haryana average. That ranked it 299th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 19.9 points, 3.7 points above the national gap of 16.3.

The sex ratio was 872 women per 1,000 men (7 below the Haryana figure of 879). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 851, 67 below the national 918.

39.7% of the population were recorded as workers, 4.5 points above the Haryana rate. Female work participation was 25.0%, 7.2 points above the state figure.

Hisar contained 11 towns — 4 with a municipal body of some kind, and 7 classed as census towns, meaning they met the census's urban test without having one. The largest was Hisar (M Cl), with 3,01,383 people. That put 31.7% of the district in urban areas, 3.1 points below the Haryana share of 34.9%.