Kanpur Nagar
Population
- Population
- 45.81 LIndia 121.09 Cr
- Urban %
- 65.83%India 31.14%
Literacy
- Literacy
- 79.65%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 83.62%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 75.05%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 8.57 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 862 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 873 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 11.13%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 17.83%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 0.08%India 8.63%
- Household
- 5.31India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 34.32%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 12.84%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 78.18%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 65.68%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 Nagar in context
With 45,81,268 people at the 2011 Census, Kanpur Nagar was the 32nd most populous of India's 640 districts and the 6th most populous of Uttar Pradesh's 71. That is 2.3% of everyone living in Uttar Pradesh at the time.
Literacy stood at 79.65%, 6.7 points above the national 72.98% — 12.0 points above the Uttar Pradesh average. That ranked it 167th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 8.6 points, 7.7 points below the national gap of 16.3.
The sex ratio was 862 women per 1,000 men (50 below the Uttar Pradesh figure of 912). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 873, 45 below the national 918.
Kanpur Nagar contained 10 towns — 6 with a municipal body of some kind, and 4 classed as census towns, meaning they met the census's urban test without having one. The largest was Kanpur (M Corp.), with 27,65,348 people. That put 65.8% of the district in urban areas, 43.6 points above the Uttar Pradesh share of 22.3%.
Towns in Kanpur Nagar
Kanpur Nagar has 10 census towns. The largest are listed below.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kanpur (M Corp.) | 27.65 L | 82.42% | 857 / 1000 |
| Kanpur (CB) | 1.09 L | 78.72% | 854 / 1000 |
| Ghatampur (NPP) | 40,623 | 75.51% | 904 / 1000 |
| Northern Railway Colony (CT) | 20,916 | 73.80% | 855 / 1000 |
| Bilhaur (NPP) | 20,493 | 68.88% | 891 / 1000 |
| Armapur Estate (CT) | 15,463 | 89.13% | 895 / 1000 |
| Shivrajpur (NP) | 11,948 | 79.90% | 901 / 1000 |
| Bithoor (NP) | 11,300 | 80.61% | 856 / 1000 |