Kurukshetra
Population
- Population
- 9.65 LIndia 121.09 Cr
- Urban %
- 28.95%India 31.14%
Literacy
- Literacy
- 76.31%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 83.02%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 68.84%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 14.18 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 888 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 818 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 12.12%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 22.30%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 0.00%India 8.63%
- Household
- 5.13India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 34.91%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 15.04%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 84.89%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 65.09%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.
Kurukshetra in context
With 9,64,655 people at the 2011 Census, Kurukshetra was the 452nd most populous of India's 640 districts and the 16th most populous of Haryana's 21. That is 3.8% of everyone living in Haryana at the time.
Literacy stood at 76.31%, 3.3 points above the national 72.98% — 0.8 points above the Haryana average. That ranked it 225th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 14.2 points, 2.1 points below the national gap of 16.3.
The sex ratio was 888 women per 1,000 men (9 above the Haryana figure of 879). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 818, 100 below the national 918.
Kurukshetra 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 Thanesar (M Cl), with 1,55,152 people. That put 28.9% of the district in urban areas, 5.9 points below the Haryana share of 34.9%.
Towns in Kurukshetra
Kurukshetra has 5 census towns. The largest are listed below.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thanesar (M Cl) | 1.55 L | 85.09% | 847 / 1000 |
| Shahbad (MC) | 42,607 | 83.77% | 860 / 1000 |
| Pehowa (MC) | 38,853 | 82.12% | 905 / 1000 |
| Ladwa (MC) | 28,887 | 82.67% | 883 / 1000 |
| Ismailabad (317)(CT) | 13,726 | 80.59% | 878 / 1000 |