Kishtwar
Population
- Population
- 2.31 LIndia 121.09 Cr
- Urban %
- 6.44%India 31.14%
Literacy
- Literacy
- 56.20%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 68.92%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 42.36%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 26.56 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 920 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 924 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 17.08%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 6.20%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 16.54%India 8.63%
- Household
- 5.10India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 35.97%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 23.70%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 53.89%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 64.03%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.
Kishtwar in context
With 2,30,696 people at the 2011 Census, Kishtwar was the 586th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 20th most populous of Jammu and Kashmir's 22. That is 1.8% of everyone living in Jammu and Kashmir at the time.
Literacy stood at 56.20%, 16.8 points below the national 72.98% — 11.0 points below the Jammu and Kashmir average. That ranked it 601st of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 26.6 points, 10.3 points above the national gap of 16.3.
The sex ratio was 920 women per 1,000 men (31 above the Jammu and Kashmir figure of 889).
Kishtwar contained 1 town. The largest was Kishtwar (MC), with 14,865 people. That put 6.4% of the district in urban areas, 20.9 points below the Jammu and Kashmir share of 27.4%.
Towns in Kishtwar
Kishtwar has one census town.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kishtwar (MC) | 14,865 | 86.07% | 817 / 1000 |