Meerut
Population
- Population
- 34.44 LIndia 121.09 Cr
- Urban %
- 51.08%India 31.14%
Literacy
- Literacy
- 72.84%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 80.74%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 63.98%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 16.76 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 886 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 852 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 14.63%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 18.12%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 0.10%India 8.63%
- Household
- 5.95India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 31.67%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 11.85%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 81.69%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 68.33%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.
Meerut in context
With 34,43,689 people at the 2011 Census, Meerut was the 94th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 25th most populous of Uttar Pradesh's 71. That is 1.7% of everyone living in Uttar Pradesh at the time.
Literacy stood at 72.84%, level with the national 72.98% — 5.2 points above the Uttar Pradesh average. That ranked it 301st of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 16.8 points, 0.5 points above the national gap of 16.3.
The sex ratio was 886 women per 1,000 men (26 below the Uttar Pradesh figure of 912). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 852, 66 below the national 918.
Meerut contained 18 towns — 14 with a municipal body of some kind, and 4 classed as census towns, meaning they met the census's urban test without having one. The largest was Meerut (M Corp.), with 13,05,429 people. That put 51.1% of the district in urban areas, 28.8 points above the Uttar Pradesh share of 22.3%.
Towns in Meerut
Meerut has 18 census towns. The largest are listed below.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Meerut (M Corp.) | 13.05 L | 75.66% | 897 / 1000 |
| Meerut (CB) | 93,312 | 84.33% | 760 / 1000 |
| Mawana (NPP) | 81,443 | 70.55% | 893 / 1000 |
| Sardhana (NPP) | 58,252 | 63.18% | 931 / 1000 |
| Kithaur (NP) | 27,933 | 61.11% | 928 / 1000 |
| Hastinapur (NP) | 26,452 | 73.48% | 888 / 1000 |
| Sewalkhas (NP) | 24,882 | 56.74% | 903 / 1000 |
| Lawar (NP) | 22,024 | 59.37% | 899 / 1000 |