Pulwama
Population
- Population
- 5.60 LIndia 121.09 Cr
- Urban %
- 14.36%India 31.14%
Literacy
- Literacy
- 63.48%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 74.36%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 51.80%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 22.56 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 912 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 829 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 17.37%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 0.07%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 4.03%India 8.63%
- Household
- 6.50India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 33.62%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 18.70%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 52.17%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 66.38%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.
Pulwama in context
With 5,60,440 people at the 2011 Census, Pulwama was the 537th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 9th most populous of Jammu and Kashmir's 22. That is 4.5% of everyone living in Jammu and Kashmir at the time.
Literacy stood at 63.48%, 9.5 points below the national 72.98% — 3.7 points below the Jammu and Kashmir average. That ranked it 516th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 22.6 points, 6.3 points above the national gap of 16.3.
The sex ratio was 912 women per 1,000 men (23 above the Jammu and Kashmir figure of 889). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 829, 89 below the national 918.
Pulwama contained 5 towns. The largest was Pampora (MC), with 21,680 people. That put 14.4% of the district in urban areas, 13.0 points below the Jammu and Kashmir share of 27.4%.
Towns in Pulwama
Pulwama has 5 census towns. The largest are listed below.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pampora (MC) | 21,680 | 70.69% | 970 / 1000 |
| Pulwama (MC) | 18,440 | 74.18% | 831 / 1000 |
| Tral (MC) | 17,844 | 72.92% | 794 / 1000 |
| Awantipora (MC) | 12,647 | 81.75% | 408 / 1000 |
| Khrew (MC) | 9,851 | 65.78% | 984 / 1000 |