Jamnagar
Population
- Population
- 21.60 LIndia 121.09 Cr
- Urban %
- 44.95%India 31.14%
Literacy
- Literacy
- 73.65%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 81.50%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 65.33%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 16.17 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 939 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 904 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 12.22%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 8.05%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 1.12%India 8.63%
- Household
- 5.01India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 39.23%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 19.18%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 85.11%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 60.77%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.
Jamnagar in context
With 21,60,119 people at the 2011 Census, Jamnagar was the 211th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 11th most populous of Gujarat's 26. That is 3.6% of everyone living in Gujarat at the time.
Literacy stood at 73.65%, 0.7 points above the national 72.98% — 4.4 points below the Gujarat average. That ranked it 284th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 16.2 points, level with the national gap of 16.3.
The sex ratio was 939 women per 1,000 men (20 above the Gujarat figure of 919).
Jamnagar contained 16 towns — 13 with a municipal body of some kind, and 3 classed as census towns, meaning they met the census's urban test without having one. The largest was Jamnagar (M Corp.), with 4,79,920 people. That put 45.0% of the district in urban areas, 2.4 points above the Gujarat share of 42.6%.
Towns in Jamnagar
Jamnagar has 16 census towns. The largest are listed below.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jamnagar (M Corp.) | 4.80 L | 82.14% | 928 / 1000 |
| Okha (M) | 62,052 | 67.59% | 939 / 1000 |
| Khambhalia (M) | 41,734 | 82.32% | 946 / 1000 |
| Dwarka (M) | 38,873 | 75.94% | 914 / 1000 |
| Salaya (M) | 33,246 | 47.63% | 1017 / 1000 |
| Sikka (M) | 28,814 | 66.49% | 928 / 1000 |
| Kalavad (M) | 28,314 | 80.52% | 925 / 1000 |
| Jamjodhpur (M) | 25,892 | 83.96% | 961 / 1000 |