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Andhra Pradesh districts

Andhra Pradesh

Hyderabad

39,43,323
people at the 2011 Census · 20.19 L male, 19.25 L female

Population

Population
39.43 LIndia 121.09 Cr
Urban %
100.00%India 31.14%

Literacy

Literacy
83.25%India 72.98%
Male Lit.
86.99%India 80.88%
Female Lit.
79.35%India 64.63%
Lit. Gap
7.64 ppIndia 16.25 pp

Society

Sex Ratio
954 / 1000India 943 / 1000
Child Sex Ratio
914 / 1000India 918 / 1000
Under 7
11.90%India 13.59%
SC %
6.29%India 16.63%
ST %
1.24%India 8.63%
Household
4.64India 4.85

Work

Workers
35.84%India 39.80%
Female Work
19.10%India 25.52%
Main Workers
77.55%India 75.24%
Non-Workers
64.16%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.

Hyderabad in context

With 39,43,323 people at the 2011 Census, Hyderabad was the 60th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 10th most populous of Andhra Pradesh's 23. That is 4.7% of everyone living in Andhra Pradesh at the time.

Literacy stood at 83.25%, 10.3 points above the national 72.98% — 16.2 points above the Andhra Pradesh average. That ranked it 106th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 7.6 points, 8.6 points below the national gap of 16.3.

The sex ratio was 954 women per 1,000 men (39 below the Andhra Pradesh figure of 993).

35.8% of the population were recorded as workers, 10.8 points below the Andhra Pradesh rate. Female work participation was 19.1%, 17.1 points below the state figure.

Hyderabad contained 17 towns — 16 with a municipal body of some kind, and 1 classed as census towns, meaning they met the census's urban test without having one. The largest urban settlement was the part of GHMC (M Corp.) falling inside the district, with 4,68,158 people. That put 100.0% of the district in urban areas, 66.6 points above the Andhra Pradesh share of 33.4%.

Towns in Hyderabad

Hyderabad has 17 census towns. The largest are listed below.

Largest towns in Hyderabad by 2011 Census population.
TownPopulationLiteracySex ratio
GHMC (M Corp.) (Part)4.68 L79.76%930 / 1000
GHMC (M Corp.) (Part)4.42 L80.88%957 / 1000
GHMC (M Corp.) (Part)3.46 L84.66%951 / 1000
GHMC (M Corp.) (Part)3.41 L85.90%975 / 1000
GHMC (M Corp.) (Part)3.30 L79.97%943 / 1000
GHMC (M Corp.) (Part)2.71 L85.18%950 / 1000
GHMC (M Corp.) (Part)2.51 L80.45%956 / 1000
GHMC (M Corp.) (Part)2.38 L83.77%937 / 1000
All 17 towns in Hyderabad