Kachchh
Population
- Population
- 20.92 LIndia 121.09 Cr
- Urban %
- 34.82%India 31.14%
Literacy
- Literacy
- 70.59%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 79.40%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 60.87%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 18.53 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 908 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 921 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 15.22%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 12.37%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 1.16%India 8.63%
- Household
- 4.69India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 37.10%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 15.22%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 88.50%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 62.90%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.
Kachchh in context
With 20,92,371 people at the 2011 Census, Kachchh was the 219th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 14th most populous of Gujarat's 26. That is 3.5% of everyone living in Gujarat at the time.
Literacy stood at 70.59%, 2.4 points below the national 72.98% — 7.4 points below the Gujarat average. That ranked it 364th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 18.5 points, 2.3 points above the national gap of 16.3.
The sex ratio was 908 women per 1,000 men (11 below the Gujarat figure of 919).
37.1% of the population were recorded as workers, 3.9 points below the Gujarat rate. Female work participation was 15.2%, 8.2 points below the state figure.
Kachchh contained 14 towns — 6 with a municipal body of some kind, and 8 classed as census towns, meaning they met the census's urban test without having one. The largest was Gandhidham (M), with 2,47,992 people. That put 34.8% of the district in urban areas, 7.8 points below the Gujarat share of 42.6%.
Towns in Kachchh
Kachchh has 14 census towns. The largest are listed below.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gandhidham (M) | 2.48 L | 81.80% | 886 / 1000 |
| Bhuj (M) | 1.43 L | 86.59% | 887 / 1000 |
| Anjar (M) | 87,183 | 80.49% | 930 / 1000 |
| Mandvi (M) | 51,376 | 80.38% | 970 / 1000 |
| Bhachau (M) | 39,532 | 71.94% | 825 / 1000 |
| Madhapar (CT) | 32,293 | 85.52% | 984 / 1000 |
| Rapar (M) | 28,407 | 67.95% | 974 / 1000 |
| Mundra (CT) | 20,338 | 82.78% | 868 / 1000 |