Kangra
Population
- Population
- 15.10 LIndia 121.09 Cr
- Urban %
- 5.71%India 31.14%
Literacy
- Literacy
- 85.67%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 91.49%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 80.02%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 11.47 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 1012 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 876 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 10.90%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 21.15%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 5.60%India 8.63%
- Household
- 4.46India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 44.71%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 35.74%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 46.49%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 55.29%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.
Kangra in context
With 15,10,075 people at the 2011 Census, Kangra was the 331st most populous of India's 640 districts and the most populous of Himachal Pradesh's 12. That is 22.0% of everyone living in Himachal Pradesh at the time.
Literacy stood at 85.67%, 12.7 points above the national 72.98% — 2.9 points above the Himachal Pradesh average. That ranked it 61st of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 11.5 points, 4.8 points below the national gap of 16.3.
The sex ratio was 1012 women per 1,000 men (40 above the Himachal Pradesh figure of 972) — one of the minority of districts where women outnumbered men. Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 876, 42 below the national 918.
44.7% of the population were recorded as workers, 7.1 points below the Himachal Pradesh rate. Female work participation was 35.7%, 9.1 points below the state figure.
Kangra contained 9 towns — 8 with a municipal body of some kind, and 1 classed as census towns, meaning they met the census's urban test without having one. The largest was Dharmsala (M Cl), with 22,579 people. That put 5.7% of the district in urban areas, 4.3 points below the Himachal Pradesh share of 10.0%.
Towns in Kangra
Kangra has 9 census towns. The largest are listed below.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dharmsala (M Cl) | 22,579 | 86.00% | 854 / 1000 |
| Yol (CB) | 12,028 | 92.16% | 820 / 1000 |
| Nurpur (M Cl) | 9,807 | 90.66% | 921 / 1000 |
| Kangra (M Cl) | 9,528 | 93.31% | 948 / 1000 |
| Nagrota Bagwan (M Cl) | 5,900 | 90.76% | 966 / 1000 |
| Jawalamukhi (NP) | 5,361 | 92.19% | 927 / 1000 |
| Dera Gopipur (NP) | 4,816 | 89.32% | 959 / 1000 |
| Indora (CT) | 4,534 | 88.54% | 950 / 1000 |