Palwal

With 10,42,708 people at the 2011 Census, Palwal was the 434th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 15th most populous of Haryana's 21. That is 4.1% of everyone living in Haryana at the time.

Literacy stood at 69.32%, 3.7 points below the national 72.98% — 6.2 points below the Haryana average. That ranked it 393rd of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 28.4 points, 12.2 points above the national gap of 16.3.

The sex ratio was 880 women per 1,000 men (level with the Haryana figure of 879). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 866, 52 below the national 918.

29.7% of the population were recorded as workers, 5.5 points below the Haryana rate.

Palwal contained 6 towns — 4 with a municipal body of some kind, and 2 classed as census towns, meaning they met the census's urban test without having one. The largest was Palwal (M Cl), with 1,28,730 people. That put 22.7% of the district in urban areas, 12.2 points below the Haryana share of 34.9%.