New Delhi

With 1,42,004 people at the 2011 Census, New Delhi was the 603rd most populous of India's 640 districts and the 9th most populous of Delhi's 9. That is 0.8% of everyone living in Delhi at the time.

Literacy stood at 88.34%, 15.4 points above the national 72.98% — 2.1 points above the Delhi average. That ranked it 35th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 8.7 points, 7.6 points below the national gap of 16.3.

The sex ratio was 822 women per 1,000 men (46 below the Delhi figure of 868). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 894, 24 below the national 918.

41.9% of the population were recorded as workers, 8.6 points above the Delhi rate. Female work participation was 19.7%, 9.1 points above the state figure.

New Delhi contained 4 towns. The largest urban settlement was the part of NDMC falling inside the district, with 61,382 people. That put 100.0% of the district in urban areas, 2.5 points above the Delhi share of 97.5%.