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Rajasthan districts

Rajasthan

Jaipur

66,26,178
people at the 2011 Census · 34.69 L male, 31.58 L female

Population

Population
66.26 LIndia 121.09 Cr
Urban %
52.40%India 31.14%

Literacy

Literacy
75.51%India 72.98%
Male Lit.
86.05%India 80.88%
Female Lit.
64.02%India 64.63%
Lit. Gap
22.03 ppIndia 16.25 pp

Society

Sex Ratio
910 / 1000India 943 / 1000
Child Sex Ratio
861 / 1000India 918 / 1000
Under 7
14.03%India 13.59%
SC %
15.14%India 16.63%
ST %
7.97%India 8.63%
Household
5.63India 4.85

Work

Workers
37.20%India 39.80%
Female Work
23.75%India 25.52%
Main Workers
83.57%India 75.24%
Non-Workers
62.80%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.

Jaipur in context

With 66,26,178 people at the 2011 Census, Jaipur was the 10th most populous of India's 640 districts and the most populous of Rajasthan's 33. That is 9.7% of everyone living in Rajasthan at the time.

Literacy stood at 75.51%, 2.5 points above the national 72.98% — 9.4 points above the Rajasthan average. That ranked it 252nd of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 22.0 points, 5.8 points above the national gap of 16.3.

The sex ratio was 910 women per 1,000 men (18 below the Rajasthan figure of 928). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 861, 57 below the national 918.

37.2% of the population were recorded as workers, 6.4 points below the Rajasthan rate. Female work participation was 23.8%, 11.4 points below the state figure.

Jaipur contained 21 towns — 13 with a municipal body of some kind, and 8 classed as census towns, meaning they met the census's urban test without having one. The largest urban settlement was the part of Jaipur (M Corp.) falling inside the district, with 21,59,276 people. That put 52.4% of the district in urban areas, 27.5 points above the Rajasthan share of 24.9%.

Towns in Jaipur

Jaipur has 21 census towns. The largest are listed below.

Largest towns in Jaipur by 2011 Census population.
TownPopulationLiteracySex ratio
Jaipur (M Corp.) (Part)21.59 L83.30%904 / 1000
Jaipur (M Corp.) (Part)7.64 L84.36%891 / 1000
Jaipur (M Corp.) (Part)1.23 L77.26%890 / 1000
Chomu (M)64,41779.35%903 / 1000
Kotputli (M)49,20280.46%889 / 1000
Shahpura (M)33,89575.87%900 / 1000
Chaksu (M)33,43272.29%924 / 1000
Bagru (M)31,22971.43%921 / 1000
All 21 towns in Jaipur