Mewat
Population
- Population
- 10.89 LIndia 121.09 Cr
- Urban %
- 11.39%India 31.14%
Literacy
- Literacy
- 54.08%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 69.94%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 36.60%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 33.34 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 907 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 906 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 22.78%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 6.91%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 0.00%India 8.63%
- Household
- 6.80India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 26.62%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 12.61%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 70.41%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 73.38%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.
Mewat in context
With 10,89,263 people at the 2011 Census, Mewat was the 420th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 12th most populous of Haryana's 21. That is 4.3% of everyone living in Haryana at the time.
Literacy stood at 54.08%, 18.9 points below the national 72.98% — 21.5 points below the Haryana average. That ranked it 612th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 33.3 points, 17.1 points above the national gap of 16.3.
The sex ratio was 907 women per 1,000 men (28 above the Haryana figure of 879).
26.6% of the population were recorded as workers, 8.6 points below the Haryana rate. Female work participation was 12.6%, 5.2 points below the state figure.
Mewat contained 8 towns — 4 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 Ferozepur jhirka (MC), with 24,750 people. That put 11.4% of the district in urban areas, 23.5 points below the Haryana share of 34.9%.
Towns in Mewat
Mewat has 8 census towns. The largest are listed below.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ferozepur jhirka (MC) | 24,750 | 69.35% | 909 / 1000 |
| Punahana (MC) | 24,734 | 66.41% | 915 / 1000 |
| Taoru (MC) | 22,599 | 81.70% | 886 / 1000 |
| Nuh (MC) | 16,260 | 69.62% | 912 / 1000 |
| Pingwan (127) (CT) | 12,612 | 62.13% | 934 / 1000 |
| Nagina (51) (CT) | 11,417 | 65.55% | 926 / 1000 |
| Khori Kalan (37) (CT) | 6,007 | 70.24% | 873 / 1000 |
| Salamba (154) (CT) | 5,727 | 52.62% | 876 / 1000 |