North East
Population
- Population
- 22.42 LIndia 121.09 Cr
- Urban %
- 99.04%India 31.14%
Literacy
- Literacy
- 83.09%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 88.78%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 76.67%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 12.11 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 886 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 880 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 13.47%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 16.67%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 0.00%India 8.63%
- Household
- 5.52India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 29.50%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 6.36%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 94.11%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 70.50%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.
North East in context
With 22,41,624 people at the 2011 Census, North East was the 202nd most populous of India's 640 districts and the 5th most populous of Delhi's 9. That is 13.4% of everyone living in Delhi at the time.
Literacy stood at 83.09%, 10.1 points above the national 72.98% — 3.1 points below the Delhi average. That ranked it 110th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 12.1 points, 4.1 points below the national gap of 16.3.
The sex ratio was 886 women per 1,000 men (18 above the Delhi figure of 868). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 880, 38 below the national 918.
29.5% of the population were recorded as workers, 3.8 points below the Delhi rate.
North East contained 18 towns — 3 with a municipal body of some kind, and 15 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 5,30,838 people. That put 99.0% of the district in urban areas, 1.5 points above the Delhi share of 97.5%.
Towns in North East
North East has 18 census towns. The largest are listed below.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| DMC (U) (Part) | 5.31 L | 83.81% | 888 / 1000 |
| DMC (U) (Part) | 4.19 L | 82.59% | 890 / 1000 |
| DMC (U) (Part) | 2.31 L | 86.03% | 908 / 1000 |
| Karawal Nagar (CT) | 2.24 L | 84.01% | 870 / 1000 |
| Mustafabad (CT) | 1.27 L | 75.09% | 901 / 1000 |
| Gokal Pur (CT) | 1.22 L | 84.72% | 879 / 1000 |
| Mandoli (CT) | 1.20 L | 81.67% | 877 / 1000 |
| Sadat Pur Gujran (CT) | 97,641 | 82.72% | 848 / 1000 |