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Himachal Pradesh districts

Himachal Pradesh

Kullu

4,37,903
people at the 2011 Census · 2.25 L male, 2.12 L female

Population

Population
4.38 LIndia 121.09 Cr
Urban %
9.45%India 31.14%

Literacy

Literacy
79.40%India 72.98%
Male Lit.
87.39%India 80.88%
Female Lit.
70.91%India 64.63%
Lit. Gap
16.48 ppIndia 16.25 pp

Society

Sex Ratio
942 / 1000India 943 / 1000
Child Sex Ratio
962 / 1000India 918 / 1000
Under 7
11.52%India 13.59%
SC %
28.01%India 16.63%
ST %
3.84%India 8.63%
Household
4.62India 4.85

Work

Workers
61.45%India 39.80%
Female Work
56.60%India 25.52%
Main Workers
72.05%India 75.24%
Non-Workers
38.55%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.

Kullu in context

With 4,37,903 people at the 2011 Census, Kullu was the 554th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 9th most populous of Himachal Pradesh's 12. That is 6.4% of everyone living in Himachal Pradesh at the time.

Literacy stood at 79.40%, 6.4 points above the national 72.98% — 3.4 points below the Himachal Pradesh average. That ranked it 170th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 16.5 points, level with the national gap of 16.3.

The sex ratio was 942 women per 1,000 men (30 below the Himachal Pradesh figure of 972). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 962, 44 above the national 918.

61.5% of the population were recorded as workers, 9.6 points above the Himachal Pradesh rate. Female work participation was 56.6%, 11.8 points above the state figure.

Kullu contained 5 towns — 4 with a municipal body of some kind, and 1 classed as census towns, meaning they met the census's urban test without having one. The largest was Kullu (M Cl), with 18,536 people. That put 9.4% of the district in urban areas, 0.6 points below the Himachal Pradesh share of 10.0%.

Towns in Kullu

Kullu has 5 census towns. The largest are listed below.

Largest towns in Kullu by 2011 Census population.
TownPopulationLiteracySex ratio
Kullu (M Cl)18,53690.66%929 / 1000
Shamshi (CT)8,87086.05%869 / 1000
Manali (M Cl)8,09682.91%716 / 1000
Bhuntar (NP)4,47589.65%893 / 1000
Banjar (NP)1,41493.40%890 / 1000