North West
Population
- Population
- 36.57 LIndia 121.09 Cr
- Urban %
- 94.15%India 31.14%
Literacy
- Literacy
- 84.45%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 89.66%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 78.41%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 11.25 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 865 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 865 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 12.30%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 19.07%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 0.00%India 8.63%
- Household
- 4.97India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 32.50%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 9.80%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 95.51%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 67.50%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 West in context
With 36,56,539 people at the 2011 Census, North West was the 78th most populous of India's 640 districts and the most populous of Delhi's 9. That is 21.8% of everyone living in Delhi at the time.
Literacy stood at 84.45%, 11.5 points above the national 72.98% — 1.8 points below the Delhi average. That ranked it 82nd of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 11.3 points, 5.0 points below the national gap of 16.3.
The sex ratio was 865 women per 1,000 men (level with the Delhi figure of 868). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 865, 53 below the national 918.
North West contained 36 towns — 3 with a municipal body of some kind, and 33 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 14,28,680 people. That put 94.2% of the district in urban areas, 3.3 points below the Delhi share of 97.5%.
Towns in North West
North West has 36 census towns. The largest are listed below.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| DMC (U) (Part) | 14.29 L | 88.03% | 873 / 1000 |
| DMC (U) (Part) | 3.99 L | 86.90% | 873 / 1000 |
| Kirari Suleman Nagar (CT) | 2.83 L | 79.94% | 859 / 1000 |
| DMC (U) (Part) | 2.62 L | 85.72% | 856 / 1000 |
| Bhalswa Jahangir Pur (CT) | 1.97 L | 77.66% | 853 / 1000 |
| Sultan Pur Majra (CT) | 1.82 L | 79.33% | 897 / 1000 |
| Pooth Kalan (CT) | 96,002 | 86.33% | 880 / 1000 |
| Bawana (CT) | 73,680 | 70.26% | 830 / 1000 |