North

With 8,87,978 people at the 2011 Census, North was the 467th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 7th most populous of Delhi's 9. That is 5.3% of everyone living in Delhi at the time.

Literacy stood at 86.85%, 13.9 points above the national 72.98% — 0.6 points above the Delhi average. That ranked it 50th 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 869 women per 1,000 men (level with the Delhi figure of 868). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 873, 45 below the national 918.

North contained 7 towns — 3 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 urban settlement was the part of DMC (U) falling inside the district, with 4,01,581 people. That put 98.0% of the district in urban areas, 0.5 points above the Delhi share of 97.5%.