Pithoragarh
Population
- Population
- 4.83 LIndia 121.09 Cr
- Urban %
- 14.40%India 31.14%
Literacy
- Literacy
- 82.25%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 92.75%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 72.29%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 20.46 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 1020 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 816 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 13.09%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 24.90%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 4.04%India 8.63%
- Household
- 4.21India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 44.78%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 42.17%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 67.20%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 55.22%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.
Pithoragarh in context
With 4,83,439 people at the 2011 Census, Pithoragarh was the 546th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 8th most populous of Uttarakhand's 13. That is 4.8% of everyone living in Uttarakhand at the time.
Literacy stood at 82.25%, 9.3 points above the national 72.98% — 3.4 points above the Uttarakhand average. That ranked it 123rd of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 20.5 points, 4.2 points above the national gap of 16.3.
The sex ratio was 1020 women per 1,000 men (57 above the Uttarakhand figure of 963) — one of the minority of districts where women outnumbered men. Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 816, 102 below the national 918.
44.8% of the population were recorded as workers, 6.4 points above the Uttarakhand rate. Female work participation was 42.2%, 15.5 points above the state figure.
Pithoragarh contained 3 towns. The largest was Pithoragarh (NPP), with 56,044 people. That put 14.4% of the district in urban areas, 15.8 points below the Uttarakhand share of 30.2%.
Towns in Pithoragarh
Pithoragarh has 3 census towns. The largest are listed below.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pithoragarh (NPP) | 56,044 | 92.48% | 924 / 1000 |
| Dharchula (NP) | 7,039 | 88.68% | 854 / 1000 |
| Didihat (NP) | 6,522 | 91.03% | 889 / 1000 |