Jalandhar
Population
- Population
- 21.94 LIndia 121.09 Cr
- Urban %
- 52.93%India 31.14%
Literacy
- Literacy
- 82.48%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 86.15%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 78.48%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 7.67 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 915 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 874 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 10.32%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 38.95%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 0.00%India 8.63%
- Household
- 4.75India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 35.31%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 12.88%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 89.04%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 64.69%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.
Jalandhar in context
With 21,93,590 people at the 2011 Census, Jalandhar was the 208th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 4th most populous of Punjab's 20. That is 7.9% of everyone living in Punjab at the time.
Literacy stood at 82.48%, 9.5 points above the national 72.98% — 6.6 points above the Punjab average. That ranked it 121st of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 7.7 points, 8.6 points below the national gap of 16.3.
The sex ratio was 915 women per 1,000 men (20 above the Punjab figure of 895). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 874, 44 below the national 918.
Jalandhar contained 21 towns — 12 with a municipal body of some kind, and 9 classed as census towns, meaning they met the census's urban test without having one. The largest was Jalandhar (M Corp.), with 8,62,886 people. That put 52.9% of the district in urban areas, 15.5 points above the Punjab share of 37.5%.
Towns in Jalandhar
Jalandhar has 21 census towns. The largest are listed below.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jalandhar (M Corp.) | 8.63 L | 86.22% | 886 / 1000 |
| Jalandhar Cantt. (CB) | 47,845 | 91.16% | 724 / 1000 |
| Nakodar (M Cl) | 36,973 | 84.02% | 910 / 1000 |
| Kartarpur (M Cl) | 25,662 | 83.94% | 920 / 1000 |
| Phillaur (M Cl) | 24,688 | 83.16% | 905 / 1000 |
| Adampur (M Cl) | 20,922 | 87.98% | 876 / 1000 |
| Bhogpur (NP) | 17,549 | 87.53% | 943 / 1000 |
| Goraya (NP) | 16,462 | 84.01% | 902 / 1000 |