Patiala
Population
- Population
- 18.96 LIndia 121.09 Cr
- Urban %
- 40.26%India 31.14%
Literacy
- Literacy
- 75.28%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 80.20%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 69.80%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 10.40 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 891 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 837 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 11.23%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 24.55%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 0.00%India 8.63%
- Household
- 5.09India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 34.83%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 12.38%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 86.39%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 65.17%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.
Patiala in context
With 18,95,686 people at the 2011 Census, Patiala was the 247th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 6th most populous of Punjab's 20. That is 6.8% of everyone living in Punjab at the time.
Literacy stood at 75.28%, 2.3 points above the national 72.98% — 0.6 points below the Punjab average. That ranked it 256th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 10.4 points, 5.8 points below the national gap of 16.3.
The sex ratio was 891 women per 1,000 men (level with the Punjab figure of 895). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 837, 81 below the national 918.
Patiala contained 12 towns — 9 with a municipal body of some kind, and 3 classed as census towns, meaning they met the census's urban test without having one. The largest was Patiala (M Corp.), with 4,06,192 people. That put 40.3% of the district in urban areas, 2.8 points above the Punjab share of 37.5%.
Towns in Patiala
Patiala has 12 census towns. The largest are listed below.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Patiala (M Corp.) | 4.06 L | 85.78% | 884 / 1000 |
| Rajpura (M Cl) | 92,301 | 86.42% | 909 / 1000 |
| Nabha (M Cl) | 67,972 | 85.61% | 861 / 1000 |
| Samana (M Cl) | 54,072 | 78.85% | 910 / 1000 |
| Patran (M Cl) | 27,963 | 79.18% | 896 / 1000 |
| Sanaur (M Cl) | 21,201 | 77.02% | 878 / 1000 |
| Rurki Kasba (CT) | 10,509 | 81.64% | 872 / 1000 |
| Alhoran (CT) | 10,218 | 76.99% | 888 / 1000 |