Jammu
Population
- Population
- 15.30 LIndia 121.09 Cr
- Urban %
- 50.00%India 31.14%
Literacy
- Literacy
- 83.45%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 89.08%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 77.13%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 11.95 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 880 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 795 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 10.94%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 24.71%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 4.52%India 8.63%
- Household
- 4.87India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 33.24%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 12.73%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 80.68%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 66.76%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.
Jammu in context
With 15,29,958 people at the 2011 Census, Jammu was the 326th most populous of India's 640 districts and the most populous of Jammu and Kashmir's 22. That is 12.2% of everyone living in Jammu and Kashmir at the time.
Literacy stood at 83.45%, 10.5 points above the national 72.98% — 16.3 points above the Jammu and Kashmir average. That ranked it 102nd of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 11.9 points, 4.3 points below the national gap of 16.3.
The sex ratio was 880 women per 1,000 men (9 below the Jammu and Kashmir figure of 889). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 795, 123 below the national 918.
Female work participation was 12.7%, 6.4 points below the state figure.
Jammu contained 20 towns — 9 with a municipal body of some kind, and 11 classed as census towns, meaning they met the census's urban test without having one. The largest was Jammu (M Corp.), with 5,02,197 people. That put 50.0% of the district in urban areas, 22.6 points above the Jammu and Kashmir share of 27.4%.
Towns in Jammu
Jammu has 20 census towns. The largest are listed below.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jammu (M Corp.) | 5.02 L | 90.14% | 908 / 1000 |
| Jammu Cantt. (CB) | 28,396 | 86.63% | 722 / 1000 |
| Akhnoor (MC) | 20,756 | 91.67% | 489 / 1000 |
| Raipur Domana (CT) | 20,238 | 86.47% | 807 / 1000 |
| R.S. Pora (MC) | 15,197 | 86.06% | 810 / 1000 |
| Bhalwal (CT) | 14,174 | 78.42% | 901 / 1000 |
| Nagrota (CT) | 13,836 | 90.70% | 534 / 1000 |
| Bishna (MC) | 10,719 | 86.04% | 888 / 1000 |