Nainital
Population
- Population
- 9.55 LIndia 121.09 Cr
- Urban %
- 38.94%India 31.14%
Literacy
- Literacy
- 83.88%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 90.07%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 77.29%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 12.78 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 934 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 902 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 13.02%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 20.03%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 0.79%India 8.63%
- Household
- 4.99India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 39.41%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 25.87%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 78.80%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 60.59%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.
Nainital in context
With 9,54,605 people at the 2011 Census, Nainital was the 457th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 4th most populous of Uttarakhand's 13. That is 9.5% of everyone living in Uttarakhand at the time.
Literacy stood at 83.88%, 10.9 points above the national 72.98% — 5.1 points above the Uttarakhand average. That ranked it 92nd of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 12.8 points, 3.5 points below the national gap of 16.3.
The sex ratio was 934 women per 1,000 men (29 below the Uttarakhand figure of 963). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 902, 16 below the national 918.
Nainital contained 11 towns — 8 with a municipal body of some kind, and 3 classed as census towns, meaning they met the census's urban test without having one. The largest was Haldwani-cum-Kathgodam (NPP), with 1,56,078 people. That put 38.9% of the district in urban areas, 8.7 points above the Uttarakhand share of 30.2%.
Towns in Nainital
Nainital has 11 census towns. The largest are listed below.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Haldwani-cum-Kathgodam (NPP) | 1.56 L | 80.77% | 904 / 1000 |
| Ramnagar (NPP) | 54,787 | 81.76% | 930 / 1000 |
| Nainital (NPP) | 41,377 | 92.93% | 911 / 1000 |
| Mukhani (CT) | 22,475 | 91.83% | 944 / 1000 |
| Fatehpur Range (Dhamua Dunga Area) (CT) | 12,791 | 86.59% | 951 / 1000 |
| Haldwani Talli (CT) | 8,159 | 89.37% | 912 / 1000 |
| Bhimtal (NP) | 7,722 | 93.67% | 858 / 1000 |
| Lalkuan (NP) | 7,644 | 83.08% | 824 / 1000 |