Jhunjhunun
Population
- Population
- 21.37 LIndia 121.09 Cr
- Urban %
- 22.89%India 31.14%
Literacy
- Literacy
- 74.13%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 86.90%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 60.95%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 25.95 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 950 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 837 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 13.50%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 16.88%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 1.95%India 8.63%
- Household
- 5.56India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 41.86%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 33.93%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 66.26%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 58.14%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.
Jhunjhunun in context
With 21,37,045 people at the 2011 Census, Jhunjhunun was the 214th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 12th most populous of Rajasthan's 33. That is 3.1% of everyone living in Rajasthan at the time.
Literacy stood at 74.13%, 1.1 points above the national 72.98% — 8.0 points above the Rajasthan average. That ranked it 279th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 25.9 points, 9.7 points above the national gap of 16.3.
The sex ratio was 950 women per 1,000 men (22 above the Rajasthan figure of 928). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 837, 81 below the national 918.
Jhunjhunun contained 18 towns — 12 with a municipal body of some kind, and 6 classed as census towns, meaning they met the census's urban test without having one. The largest was Jhunjhunun (M Cl), with 1,18,473 people. That put 22.9% of the district in urban areas, 2.0 points below the Rajasthan share of 24.9%.
Towns in Jhunjhunun
Jhunjhunun has 18 census towns. The largest are listed below.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jhunjhunun (M Cl) | 1.18 L | 73.58% | 925 / 1000 |
| Nawalgarh (M) | 63,948 | 74.44% | 930 / 1000 |
| Chirawa (M) | 43,953 | 78.90% | 925 / 1000 |
| Pilani (M) | 29,741 | 81.05% | 945 / 1000 |
| Udaipurwati (M) | 29,236 | 74.35% | 922 / 1000 |
| Mandawa (M) | 23,335 | 74.38% | 998 / 1000 |
| Bissau (M) | 23,227 | 73.09% | 977 / 1000 |
| Surajgarh (M) | 21,666 | 79.66% | 908 / 1000 |