Rajkot
Population
- Population
- 38.05 LIndia 121.09 Cr
- Urban %
- 58.19%India 31.14%
Literacy
- Literacy
- 80.96%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 87.07%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 74.43%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 12.64 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 927 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 862 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 11.53%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 7.63%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 0.63%India 8.63%
- Household
- 4.84India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 38.88%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 17.46%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 89.57%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 61.12%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.
Rajkot in context
With 38,04,558 people at the 2011 Census, Rajkot was the 67th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 4th most populous of Gujarat's 26. That is 6.3% of everyone living in Gujarat at the time.
Literacy stood at 80.96%, 8.0 points above the national 72.98% — 2.9 points above the Gujarat average. That ranked it 144th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 12.6 points, 3.6 points below the national gap of 16.3.
The sex ratio was 927 women per 1,000 men (8 above the Gujarat figure of 919). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 862, 56 below the national 918.
Female work participation was 17.5%, 5.9 points below the state figure.
Rajkot contained 23 towns — 11 with a municipal body of some kind, and 12 classed as census towns, meaning they met the census's urban test without having one. The largest was Rajkot (M Corp.), with 12,86,678 people. That put 58.2% of the district in urban areas, 15.6 points above the Gujarat share of 42.6%.
Towns in Rajkot
Rajkot has 23 census towns. The largest are listed below.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rajkot (M Corp.) | 12.87 L | 87.80% | 908 / 1000 |
| Morvi (M) | 1.95 L | 83.64% | 924 / 1000 |
| Jetpur Navagadh (M) | 1.18 L | 82.12% | 903 / 1000 |
| Gondal (M) | 1.12 L | 84.26% | 924 / 1000 |
| Dhoraji (M) | 84,545 | 81.81% | 953 / 1000 |
| Upleta (M) | 58,775 | 82.73% | 948 / 1000 |
| Kotharia (CT) | 53,794 | 80.80% | 843 / 1000 |
| Jasdan (M) | 48,483 | 83.32% | 935 / 1000 |