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Haryana districts

Haryana

Mewat

10,89,263
people at the 2011 Census · 5.71 L male, 5.18 L female

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.

Largest towns in Mewat by 2011 Census population.
TownPopulationLiteracySex ratio
Ferozepur jhirka (MC)24,75069.35%909 / 1000
Punahana (MC)24,73466.41%915 / 1000
Taoru (MC)22,59981.70%886 / 1000
Nuh (MC)16,26069.62%912 / 1000
Pingwan (127) (CT)12,61262.13%934 / 1000
Nagina (51) (CT)11,41765.55%926 / 1000
Khori Kalan (37) (CT)6,00770.24%873 / 1000
Salamba (154) (CT)5,72752.62%876 / 1000