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Rajasthan districts

Rajasthan

Jodhpur

36,87,165
people at the 2011 Census · 19.24 L male, 17.63 L female

Population

Population
36.87 LIndia 121.09 Cr
Urban %
34.30%India 31.14%

Literacy

Literacy
65.94%India 72.98%
Male Lit.
78.95%India 80.88%
Female Lit.
51.83%India 64.63%
Lit. Gap
27.12 ppIndia 16.25 pp

Society

Sex Ratio
916 / 1000India 943 / 1000
Child Sex Ratio
891 / 1000India 918 / 1000
Under 7
16.45%India 13.59%
SC %
16.49%India 16.63%
ST %
3.23%India 8.63%
Household
5.68India 4.85

Work

Workers
40.40%India 39.80%
Female Work
29.75%India 25.52%
Main Workers
70.92%India 75.24%
Non-Workers
59.60%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.

Jodhpur in context

With 36,87,165 people at the 2011 Census, Jodhpur was the 72nd most populous of India's 640 districts and the 2nd most populous of Rajasthan's 33. That is 5.4% of everyone living in Rajasthan at the time.

Literacy stood at 65.94%, 7.0 points below the national 72.98% — level with the Rajasthan average. That ranked it 467th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 27.1 points, 10.9 points above the national gap of 16.3.

The sex ratio was 916 women per 1,000 men (12 below the Rajasthan figure of 928). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 891, 27 below the national 918.

40.4% of the population were recorded as workers, 3.2 points below the Rajasthan rate. Female work participation was 29.8%, 5.4 points below the state figure.

Jodhpur contained 7 towns — 4 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 Jodhpur (M Corp.), with 10,33,756 people. That put 34.3% of the district in urban areas, 9.4 points above the Rajasthan share of 24.9%.

Towns in Jodhpur

Jodhpur has 7 census towns. The largest are listed below.

Largest towns in Jodhpur by 2011 Census population.
TownPopulationLiteracySex ratio
Jodhpur (M Corp.)10.34 L80.81%903 / 1000
Phalodi (M)49,76672.84%914 / 1000
Bilara (M)39,59071.61%1008 / 1000
Kuri Bhagtasani (CT)38,42982.48%887 / 1000
Pipar City (M)36,81071.18%936 / 1000
Sangariya (CT)22,85369.22%877 / 1000
Nandri (CT)20,82780.16%913 / 1000