Kathua
Population
- Population
- 6.16 LIndia 121.09 Cr
- Urban %
- 14.55%India 31.14%
Literacy
- Literacy
- 73.09%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 81.53%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 63.72%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 17.81 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 890 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 831 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 13.62%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 22.91%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 8.65%India 8.63%
- Household
- 5.15India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 32.51%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 13.39%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 71.27%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 67.49%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.
Kathua in context
With 6,16,435 people at the 2011 Census, Kathua was the 520th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 8th most populous of Jammu and Kashmir's 22. That is 4.9% of everyone living in Jammu and Kashmir at the time.
Literacy stood at 73.09%, level with the national 72.98% — 5.9 points above the Jammu and Kashmir average. That ranked it 294th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 17.8 points, 1.6 points above the national gap of 16.3.
The sex ratio was 890 women per 1,000 men (level with the Jammu and Kashmir figure of 889). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 831, 87 below the national 918.
Female work participation was 13.4%, 5.7 points below the state figure.
Kathua contained 6 towns. The largest was Kathua (M Cl), with 51,991 people. That put 14.6% of the district in urban areas, 12.8 points below the Jammu and Kashmir share of 27.4%.
Towns in Kathua
Kathua has 6 census towns. The largest are listed below.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kathua (M Cl) | 51,991 | 87.76% | 891 / 1000 |
| Hiranagar (MC) | 8,294 | 87.87% | 833 / 1000 |
| Parole (MC) | 7,681 | 78.47% | 903 / 1000 |
| Bashohli (MC) | 5,433 | 87.43% | 923 / 1000 |
| Billawar (MC) | 4,978 | 79.92% | 895 / 1000 |
| Lakhanpur (MC) | 3,461 | 92.66% | 538 / 1000 |