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Jharkhand districts

Jharkhand

Ranchi

29,14,253
people at the 2011 Census · 14.95 L male, 14.19 L female

Population

Population
29.14 LIndia 121.09 Cr
Urban %
43.14%India 31.14%

Literacy

Literacy
76.06%India 72.98%
Male Lit.
84.26%India 80.88%
Female Lit.
67.44%India 64.63%
Lit. Gap
16.82 ppIndia 16.25 pp

Society

Sex Ratio
949 / 1000India 943 / 1000
Child Sex Ratio
938 / 1000India 918 / 1000
Under 7
13.77%India 13.59%
SC %
5.25%India 16.63%
ST %
35.76%India 8.63%
Household
5.12India 4.85

Work

Workers
39.22%India 39.80%
Female Work
28.11%India 25.52%
Main Workers
66.16%India 75.24%
Non-Workers
60.78%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.

Ranchi in context

With 29,14,253 people at the 2011 Census, Ranchi was the 130th most populous of India's 640 districts and the most populous of Jharkhand's 24. That is 8.8% of everyone living in Jharkhand at the time.

Literacy stood at 76.06%, 3.1 points above the national 72.98% — 9.7 points above the Jharkhand average. That ranked it 232nd of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 16.8 points, 0.6 points above the national gap of 16.3.

The sex ratio was 949 women per 1,000 men (level with the Jharkhand figure of 948). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 938, 20 above the national 918.

Ranchi contained 15 towns — 2 with a municipal body of some kind, and 13 classed as census towns, meaning they met the census's urban test without having one. The largest was Ranchi (M Corp.), with 10,73,427 people. That put 43.1% of the district in urban areas, 19.1 points above the Jharkhand share of 24.1%.

Towns in Ranchi

Ranchi has 15 census towns. The largest are listed below.

Largest towns in Ranchi by 2011 Census population.
TownPopulationLiteracySex ratio
Ranchi (M Corp.)10.73 L87.37%921 / 1000
Churi (CT)24,87680.21%914 / 1000
Ratu (CT)22,37981.88%942 / 1000
Bundu (NP)21,05475.21%960 / 1000
Khelari (CT)20,01075.58%933 / 1000
Kanke (CT)17,56088.14%916 / 1000
Tati (CT)12,87887.37%874 / 1000
Muri (CT)12,74485.45%934 / 1000
All 15 towns in Ranchi