Porbandar
Population
- Population
- 5.85 LIndia 121.09 Cr
- Urban %
- 48.80%India 31.14%
Literacy
- Literacy
- 75.78%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 83.45%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 67.75%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 15.70 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 950 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 903 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 11.26%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 8.85%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 2.23%India 8.63%
- Household
- 4.70India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 39.49%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 20.00%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 84.54%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 60.51%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.
Porbandar in context
With 5,85,449 people at the 2011 Census, Porbandar was the 529th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 25th most populous of Gujarat's 26. That is 1.0% of everyone living in Gujarat at the time.
Literacy stood at 75.78%, 2.8 points above the national 72.98% — 2.3 points below the Gujarat average. That ranked it 243rd of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 15.7 points, 0.6 points below the national gap of 16.3.
The sex ratio was 950 women per 1,000 men (31 above the Gujarat figure of 919). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 903, 15 below the national 918.
Porbandar 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 Porbandar (M), with 1,51,770 people. That put 48.8% of the district in urban areas, 6.2 points above the Gujarat share of 42.6%.
Towns in Porbandar
Porbandar has 6 census towns. The largest are listed below.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Porbandar (M) | 1.52 L | 85.76% | 943 / 1000 |
| Chhaya (M) | 47,699 | 83.99% | 930 / 1000 |
| Ranavav (M) | 46,018 | 74.24% | 954 / 1000 |
| Khapat (CT) | 16,744 | 77.20% | 944 / 1000 |
| Kutiyana (M) | 16,581 | 77.83% | 962 / 1000 |
| Amardad (CT) | 5,872 | 74.52% | 948 / 1000 |