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Jammu and Kashmir districts

Jammu and Kashmir

Kargil

1,40,802
people at the 2011 Census · 77,785 male, 63,017 female

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.

Largest towns in Kargil by 2011 Census population.
TownPopulationLiteracySex ratio
Kargil (MC)16,33883.55%621 / 1000