Muktsar
Population
- Population
- 9.02 LIndia 121.09 Cr
- Urban %
- 27.96%India 31.14%
Literacy
- Literacy
- 65.81%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 71.76%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 59.24%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 12.52 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 896 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 831 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 11.58%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 42.31%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 0.00%India 8.63%
- Household
- 5.17India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 37.18%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 14.69%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 85.65%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 62.82%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.
Muktsar in context
With 9,01,896 people at the 2011 Census, Muktsar was the 464th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 13th most populous of Punjab's 20. That is 3.3% of everyone living in Punjab at the time.
Literacy stood at 65.81%, 7.2 points below the national 72.98% — 10.0 points below the Punjab average. That ranked it 470th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 12.5 points, 3.7 points below the national gap of 16.3.
The sex ratio was 896 women per 1,000 men (level with the Punjab figure of 895). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 831, 87 below the national 918.
Muktsar contained 4 towns. The largest was Muktsar (M Cl), with 1,16,747 people. That put 28.0% of the district in urban areas, 9.5 points below the Punjab share of 37.5%.
Towns in Muktsar
Muktsar has 4 census towns. The largest are listed below.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Muktsar (M Cl) | 1.17 L | 76.49% | 891 / 1000 |
| Malout (M Cl) | 81,406 | 77.18% | 882 / 1000 |
| Gidderbaha (M Cl) | 45,370 | 75.15% | 903 / 1000 |
| Bariwala (NP) | 8,668 | 71.98% | 883 / 1000 |