Moga
Population
- Population
- 9.96 LIndia 121.09 Cr
- Urban %
- 22.82%India 31.14%
Literacy
- Literacy
- 70.68%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 74.44%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 66.48%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 7.96 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 893 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 860 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 10.78%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 36.50%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 0.00%India 8.63%
- Household
- 5.15India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 36.07%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 14.22%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 84.88%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 63.93%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.
Moga in context
With 9,95,746 people at the 2011 Census, Moga was the 447th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 11th most populous of Punjab's 20. That is 3.6% of everyone living in Punjab at the time.
Literacy stood at 70.68%, 2.3 points below the national 72.98% — 5.2 points below the Punjab average. That ranked it 361st of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 8.0 points, 8.3 points below the national gap of 16.3.
The sex ratio was 893 women per 1,000 men (level with the Punjab figure of 895). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 860, 58 below the national 918.
Moga contained 5 towns — 4 with a municipal body of some kind, and 1 classed as census towns, meaning they met the census's urban test without having one. The largest was Moga (M Cl), with 1,50,411 people. That put 22.8% of the district in urban areas, 14.7 points below the Punjab share of 37.5%.
Towns in Moga
Moga has 5 census towns. The largest are listed below.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Moga (M Cl) | 1.50 L | 80.59% | 888 / 1000 |
| Bagha Purana (M Cl) | 25,206 | 76.13% | 897 / 1000 |
| Dharamkot (M Cl) | 19,057 | 74.90% | 903 / 1000 |
| Kot Ise Khan (CT) | 12,800 | 76.01% | 907 / 1000 |
| Badhni Kalan (NP) | 6,786 | 78.30% | 887 / 1000 |