Kargil
Population
- Population
- 1.41 LIndia 121.09 Cr
- Urban %
- 11.60%India 31.14%
Literacy
- Literacy
- 71.34%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 83.15%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 56.30%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 26.85 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 810 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 977 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 14.15%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 0.01%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 86.89%India 8.63%
- Household
- 7.68India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 36.84%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 19.10%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 55.79%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 63.16%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.
Kargil in context
With 1,40,802 people at the 2011 Census, Kargil was the 604th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 21st most populous of Jammu and Kashmir's 22. That is 1.1% of everyone living in Jammu and Kashmir at the time.
Literacy stood at 71.34%, 1.6 points below the national 72.98% — 4.2 points above the Jammu and Kashmir average. That ranked it 344th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 26.9 points, 10.6 points above the national gap of 16.3.
The sex ratio was 810 women per 1,000 men (79 below the Jammu and Kashmir figure of 889). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 977, 59 above the national 918.
Kargil contained 1 town. The largest was Kargil (MC), with 16,338 people. That put 11.6% of the district in urban areas, 15.8 points below the Jammu and Kashmir share of 27.4%.
Towns in Kargil
Kargil has one census town.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kargil (MC) | 16,338 | 83.55% | 621 / 1000 |