Jaunpur

With 44,94,204 people at the 2011 Census, Jaunpur was the 36th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 7th most populous of Uttar Pradesh's 71. That is 2.2% of everyone living in Uttar Pradesh at the time.

Literacy stood at 71.55%, 1.4 points below the national 72.98% — 3.9 points above the Uttar Pradesh average. That ranked it 337th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 24.0 points, 7.7 points above the national gap of 16.3.

The sex ratio was 1024 women per 1,000 men (112 above the Uttar Pradesh figure of 912) — one of the minority of districts where women outnumbered men.

Female work participation was 22.1%, 5.4 points above the state figure.

Jaunpur contained 13 towns — 8 with a municipal body of some kind, and 5 classed as census towns, meaning they met the census's urban test without having one. The largest was Jaunpur (NPP), with 1,80,362 people. That put 7.7% of the district in urban areas, 14.6 points below the Uttar Pradesh share of 22.3%.