Ludhiana
Population
- Population
- 34.99 LIndia 121.09 Cr
- Urban %
- 59.16%India 31.14%
Literacy
- Literacy
- 82.20%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 85.98%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 77.88%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 8.10 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 873 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 860 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 10.98%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 26.39%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 0.00%India 8.63%
- Household
- 4.88India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 36.72%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 14.18%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 88.62%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 63.28%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.
Ludhiana in context
With 34,98,739 people at the 2011 Census, Ludhiana was the 86th most populous of India's 640 districts and the most populous of Punjab's 20. That is 12.6% of everyone living in Punjab at the time.
Literacy stood at 82.20%, 9.2 points above the national 72.98% — 6.4 points above the Punjab average. That ranked it 124th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 8.1 points, 8.2 points below the national gap of 16.3.
The sex ratio was 873 women per 1,000 men (22 below the Punjab figure of 895). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 860, 58 below the national 918.
Ludhiana contained 20 towns — 11 with a municipal body of some kind, and 9 classed as census towns, meaning they met the census's urban test without having one. The largest was Ludhiana (M Corp.), with 16,18,879 people. That put 59.2% of the district in urban areas, 21.7 points above the Punjab share of 37.5%.
Towns in Ludhiana
Ludhiana has 20 census towns. The largest are listed below.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ludhiana (M Corp.) | 16.19 L | 85.77% | 850 / 1000 |
| Khanna (M Cl) | 1.28 L | 83.55% | 890 / 1000 |
| Jagraon (M Cl) | 65,240 | 81.69% | 897 / 1000 |
| Gill (CT) | 28,884 | 83.72% | 868 / 1000 |
| Raikot (M Cl) | 28,734 | 79.15% | 898 / 1000 |
| Doraha (M Cl) | 25,424 | 82.42% | 771 / 1000 |
| Machhiwara (M Cl) | 24,916 | 73.62% | 902 / 1000 |
| Sahnewal (NP) | 22,484 | 85.32% | 875 / 1000 |