Punch
Population
- Population
- 4.77 LIndia 121.09 Cr
- Urban %
- 8.10%India 31.14%
Literacy
- Literacy
- 66.74%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 78.84%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 53.19%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 25.65 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 893 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 893 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 17.76%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 0.12%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 36.93%India 8.63%
- Household
- 5.28India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 33.85%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 19.43%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 45.38%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 66.15%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.
Punch in context
With 4,76,835 people at the 2011 Census, Punch was the 549th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 11th most populous of Jammu and Kashmir's 22. That is 3.8% of everyone living in Jammu and Kashmir at the time.
Literacy stood at 66.74%, 6.2 points below the national 72.98% — level with the Jammu and Kashmir average. That ranked it 454th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 25.6 points, 9.4 points above the national gap of 16.3.
The sex ratio was 893 women per 1,000 men (level with the Jammu and Kashmir figure of 889). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 893, 25 below the national 918.
Punch contained 3 towns — 2 with a municipal body of some kind, and 1 classed as census towns, meaning they met the census's urban test without having one. The largest was Punch (M Cl), with 26,854 people. That put 8.1% of the district in urban areas, 19.3 points below the Jammu and Kashmir share of 27.4%.
Towns in Punch
Punch has 3 census towns. The largest are listed below.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Punch (M Cl) | 26,854 | 91.33% | 672 / 1000 |
| Surankote (MC) | 6,743 | 84.75% | 904 / 1000 |
| Naka Majiari (CT) | 5,033 | 75.29% | 996 / 1000 |