Narmada

With 5,90,297 people at the 2011 Census, Narmada was the 528th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 24th most populous of Gujarat's 26. That is 1.0% of everyone living in Gujarat at the time.

Literacy stood at 72.31%, 0.7 points below the national 72.98% — 5.7 points below the Gujarat average. That ranked it 316th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 18.1 points, 1.9 points above the national gap of 16.3.

The sex ratio was 961 women per 1,000 men (42 above the Gujarat figure of 919). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 941, 23 above the national 918.

49.9% of the population were recorded as workers, 9.0 points above the Gujarat rate. Female work participation was 41.7%, 18.3 points above the state figure.

Narmada contained 5 towns — 1 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 Rajpipla (M), with 34,845 people. That put 10.5% of the district in urban areas, 32.1 points below the Gujarat share of 42.6%.