Rajouri
Population
- Population
- 6.42 LIndia 121.09 Cr
- Urban %
- 8.14%India 31.14%
Literacy
- Literacy
- 68.17%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 78.13%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 56.57%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 21.56 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 860 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 865 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 16.85%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 7.50%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 36.24%India 8.63%
- Household
- 4.93India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 45.28%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 35.74%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 44.82%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 54.72%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.
Rajouri in context
With 6,42,415 people at the 2011 Census, Rajouri was the 514th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 7th most populous of Jammu and Kashmir's 22. That is 5.1% of everyone living in Jammu and Kashmir at the time.
Literacy stood at 68.17%, 4.8 points below the national 72.98% — 1.0 points above the Jammu and Kashmir average. That ranked it 421st of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 21.6 points, 5.3 points above the national gap of 16.3.
The sex ratio was 860 women per 1,000 men (29 below the Jammu and Kashmir figure of 889). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 865, 53 below the national 918.
45.3% of the population were recorded as workers, 10.8 points above the Jammu and Kashmir rate. Female work participation was 35.7%, 16.6 points above the state figure.
Rajouri contained 4 towns. The largest was Rajauri (MC), with 29,486 people. That put 8.1% of the district in urban areas, 19.2 points below the Jammu and Kashmir share of 27.4%.
Towns in Rajouri
Rajouri has 4 census towns. The largest are listed below.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rajauri (MC) | 29,486 | 90.51% | 538 / 1000 |
| Nowshehra (MC) | 10,408 | 94.40% | 347 / 1000 |
| Sunderbani (MC) | 6,930 | 94.09% | 507 / 1000 |
| Thanamandi (MC) | 5,490 | 76.28% | 772 / 1000 |