Kanpur Dehat
Population
- Population
- 17.96 LIndia 121.09 Cr
- Urban %
- 9.66%India 31.14%
Literacy
- Literacy
- 75.78%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 83.45%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 66.86%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 16.59 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 865 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 897 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 14.03%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 25.64%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 0.04%India 8.63%
- Household
- 5.45India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 35.01%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 16.19%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 71.34%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 64.99%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.
Kanpur Dehat in context
With 17,96,184 people at the 2011 Census, Kanpur Dehat was the 268th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 54th most populous of Uttar Pradesh's 71. That is 0.9% of everyone living in Uttar Pradesh at the time.
Literacy stood at 75.78%, 2.8 points above the national 72.98% — 8.1 points above the Uttar Pradesh average. That ranked it 242nd of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 16.6 points, level with the national gap of 16.3.
The sex ratio was 865 women per 1,000 men (47 below the Uttar Pradesh figure of 912). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 897, 21 below the national 918.
Kanpur Dehat contained 12 towns — 9 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 Pukhrayan (NPP), with 24,258 people. That put 9.7% of the district in urban areas, 12.6 points below the Uttar Pradesh share of 22.3%.
Towns in Kanpur Dehat
Kanpur Dehat has 12 census towns. The largest are listed below.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pukhrayan (NPP) | 24,258 | 85.42% | 893 / 1000 |
| Jhinjhak (NP) | 24,027 | 84.59% | 900 / 1000 |
| Rasulabad (NP) | 22,196 | 76.09% | 890 / 1000 |
| Akbarpur (NP) | 20,445 | 75.33% | 887 / 1000 |
| Rura (NP) | 16,233 | 86.21% | 894 / 1000 |
| Sikandra (NP) | 13,580 | 72.21% | 879 / 1000 |
| Amraudha (NP) | 10,436 | 71.16% | 863 / 1000 |
| Raniyan (CT) | 10,011 | 82.29% | 861 / 1000 |