Moradabad

With 47,72,006 people at the 2011 Census, Moradabad was the 26th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 2nd most populous of Uttar Pradesh's 71. That is 2.4% of everyone living in Uttar Pradesh at the time.

Literacy stood at 56.77%, 16.2 points below the national 72.98% — 10.9 points below the Uttar Pradesh average. That ranked it 594th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 17.0 points, 0.7 points above the national gap of 16.3.

The sex ratio was 906 women per 1,000 men (6 below the Uttar Pradesh figure of 912).

29.7% of the population were recorded as workers, 3.2 points below the Uttar Pradesh rate. Female work participation was 9.9%, 6.9 points below the state figure.

Moradabad contained 17 towns — 12 with a municipal body of some kind, and 5 classed as census towns, meaning they met the census's urban test without having one. The largest was Moradabad (M Corp.), with 8,87,871 people. That put 33.0% of the district in urban areas, 10.7 points above the Uttar Pradesh share of 22.3%.