Mahesana
Population
- Population
- 20.35 LIndia 121.09 Cr
- Urban %
- 25.27%India 31.14%
Literacy
- Literacy
- 83.61%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 91.39%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 75.32%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 16.07 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 926 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 842 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 11.69%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 7.97%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 0.46%India 8.63%
- Household
- 4.79India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 39.90%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 22.83%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 86.05%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 60.10%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.
Mahesana in context
With 20,35,064 people at the 2011 Census, Mahesana was the 226th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 15th most populous of Gujarat's 26. That is 3.4% of everyone living in Gujarat at the time.
Literacy stood at 83.61%, 10.6 points above the national 72.98% — 5.6 points above the Gujarat average. That ranked it 99th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 16.1 points, level with the national gap of 16.3.
The sex ratio was 926 women per 1,000 men (7 above the Gujarat figure of 919). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 842, 76 below the national 918.
Mahesana contained 10 towns — 7 with a municipal body of some kind, and 3 classed as census towns, meaning they met the census's urban test without having one. The largest was Mahesana (M), with 1,84,991 people. That put 25.3% of the district in urban areas, 17.3 points below the Gujarat share of 42.6%.
Towns in Mahesana
Mahesana has 10 census towns. The largest are listed below.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mahesana (M) | 1.85 L | 89.64% | 899 / 1000 |
| Kadi (M) | 73,228 | 88.86% | 881 / 1000 |
| Visnagar (M) | 63,073 | 89.28% | 909 / 1000 |
| Unjha (M) | 57,108 | 90.75% | 919 / 1000 |
| Vadnagar (M) | 27,790 | 80.53% | 971 / 1000 |
| Vijapur (M) | 25,558 | 84.43% | 936 / 1000 |
| Kheralu (M) | 21,843 | 82.64% | 931 / 1000 |
| Bechar Alias Becharaji (CT) | 12,574 | 82.47% | 923 / 1000 |