Kapurthala
Population
- Population
- 8.15 LIndia 121.09 Cr
- Urban %
- 34.65%India 31.14%
Literacy
- Literacy
- 79.07%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 83.15%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 74.63%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 8.52 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 912 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 871 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 10.55%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 33.94%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 0.00%India 8.63%
- Household
- 4.85India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 34.86%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 12.50%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 87.35%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 65.14%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.
Kapurthala in context
With 8,15,168 people at the 2011 Census, Kapurthala was the 482nd most populous of India's 640 districts and the 14th most populous of Punjab's 20. That is 2.9% of everyone living in Punjab at the time.
Literacy stood at 79.07%, 6.1 points above the national 72.98% — 3.2 points above the Punjab average. That ranked it 176th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 8.5 points, 7.7 points below the national gap of 16.3.
The sex ratio was 912 women per 1,000 men (17 above the Punjab figure of 895). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 871, 47 below the national 918.
Kapurthala contained 9 towns — 6 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 Kapurthala (M Cl), with 98,916 people. That put 34.6% of the district in urban areas, 2.8 points below the Punjab share of 37.5%.
Towns in Kapurthala
Kapurthala has 9 census towns. The largest are listed below.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kapurthala (M Cl) | 98,916 | 85.08% | 839 / 1000 |
| Phagwara (M Cl) | 97,864 | 86.82% | 904 / 1000 |
| Phagwara Sharki (CT) | 20,102 | 83.39% | 885 / 1000 |
| Sultanpur (M Cl) | 16,877 | 78.88% | 904 / 1000 |
| Hussainpur (CT) | 15,575 | 92.63% | 803 / 1000 |
| Bhulath (NP) | 10,548 | 80.95% | 943 / 1000 |
| Begowal (NP) | 10,116 | 76.13% | 999 / 1000 |
| Dhilwan (NP) | 8,157 | 79.68% | 931 / 1000 |