Kupwara
Population
- Population
- 8.70 LIndia 121.09 Cr
- Urban %
- 12.03%India 31.14%
Literacy
- Literacy
- 64.51%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 75.68%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 50.95%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 24.73 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 835 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 879 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 21.69%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 0.12%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 8.08%India 8.63%
- Household
- 7.64India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 26.32%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 9.63%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 54.06%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 73.68%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.
Kupwara in context
With 8,70,354 people at the 2011 Census, Kupwara was the 471st most populous of India's 640 districts and the 5th most populous of Jammu and Kashmir's 22. That is 6.9% of everyone living in Jammu and Kashmir at the time.
Literacy stood at 64.51%, 8.5 points below the national 72.98% — 2.6 points below the Jammu and Kashmir average. That ranked it 491st of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 24.7 points, 8.5 points above the national gap of 16.3.
The sex ratio was 835 women per 1,000 men (54 below the Jammu and Kashmir figure of 889). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 879, 39 below the national 918.
26.3% of the population were recorded as workers, 8.1 points below the Jammu and Kashmir rate. Female work participation was 9.6%, 9.5 points below the state figure.
Kupwara contained 10 towns — 2 with a municipal body of some kind, and 8 classed as census towns, meaning they met the census's urban test without having one. The largest was Kupwara (MC), with 21,771 people. That put 12.0% of the district in urban areas, 15.3 points below the Jammu and Kashmir share of 27.4%.
Towns in Kupwara
Kupwara has 10 census towns. The largest are listed below.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kupwara (MC) | 21,771 | 86.64% | 440 / 1000 |
| Trehgam (CT) | 15,587 | 75.54% | 791 / 1000 |
| Handwara (MC) | 13,600 | 77.26% | 843 / 1000 |
| Drug Mulla (CT) | 12,930 | 71.51% | 687 / 1000 |
| Tangdhar (CT) | 9,904 | 78.98% | 452 / 1000 |
| Dara Pora (CT) | 8,464 | 64.32% | 825 / 1000 |
| Kral Pora (CT) | 6,518 | 66.45% | 920 / 1000 |
| Heri (CT) | 6,348 | 73.72% | 943 / 1000 |