Leh(Ladakh)
Population
- Population
- 1.33 LIndia 121.09 Cr
- Urban %
- 34.21%India 31.14%
Literacy
- Literacy
- 77.20%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 86.31%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 63.56%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 22.75 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 690 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 946 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 9.00%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 0.37%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 71.81%India 8.63%
- Household
- 6.09India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 56.24%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 40.01%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 76.09%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 43.76%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.
Leh(Ladakh) in context
With 1,33,487 people at the 2011 Census, Leh(Ladakh) was the 609th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 22nd most populous of Jammu and Kashmir's 22. That is 1.1% of everyone living in Jammu and Kashmir at the time.
Literacy stood at 77.20%, 4.2 points above the national 72.98% — 10.0 points above the Jammu and Kashmir average. That ranked it 215th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 22.8 points, 6.5 points above the national gap of 16.3.
The sex ratio was 690 women per 1,000 men (199 below the Jammu and Kashmir figure of 889). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 946, 28 above the national 918.
56.2% of the population were recorded as workers, 21.8 points above the Jammu and Kashmir rate. Female work participation was 40.0%, 20.9 points above the state figure.
Leh(Ladakh) contained 3 towns — 1 with a municipal body of some kind, and 2 classed as census towns, meaning they met the census's urban test without having one. The largest was Leh Ladakh (MC), with 30,870 people. That put 34.2% of the district in urban areas, 6.8 points above the Jammu and Kashmir share of 27.4%.
Towns in Leh(Ladakh)
Leh(Ladakh) has 3 census towns. The largest are listed below.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leh Ladakh (MC) | 30,870 | 90.29% | 425 / 1000 |
| Chuglamsar (CT) | 10,754 | 79.01% | 648 / 1000 |
| Spituk (CT) | 4,047 | 77.53% | 710 / 1000 |