Sabar Kantha
Population
- Population
- 24.29 LIndia 121.09 Cr
- Urban %
- 14.98%India 31.14%
Literacy
- Literacy
- 75.79%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 86.44%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 64.69%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 21.75 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 952 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 903 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 14.23%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 7.73%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 22.32%India 8.63%
- Household
- 5.04India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 44.67%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 34.06%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 73.29%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 55.33%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.
Sabar Kantha in context
With 24,28,589 people at the 2011 Census, Sabar Kantha was the 183rd most populous of India's 640 districts and the 8th most populous of Gujarat's 26. That is 4.0% of everyone living in Gujarat at the time.
Literacy stood at 75.79%, 2.8 points above the national 72.98% — 2.2 points below the Gujarat average. That ranked it 241st of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 21.8 points, 5.5 points above the national gap of 16.3.
The sex ratio was 952 women per 1,000 men (33 above the Gujarat figure of 919). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 903, 15 below the national 918.
44.7% of the population were recorded as workers, 3.7 points above the Gujarat rate. Female work participation was 34.1%, 10.7 points above the state figure.
Sabar Kantha contained 15 towns — 8 with a municipal body of some kind, and 7 classed as census towns, meaning they met the census's urban test without having one. The largest was Himatnagar (M), with 81,137 people. That put 15.0% of the district in urban areas, 27.6 points below the Gujarat share of 42.6%.
Towns in Sabar Kantha
Sabar Kantha has 15 census towns. The largest are listed below.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Himatnagar (M) | 81,137 | 87.15% | 920 / 1000 |
| Modasa (M) | 67,648 | 87.17% | 937 / 1000 |
| Idar (M) | 31,176 | 81.84% | 929 / 1000 |
| Khedbrahma (M) | 25,001 | 80.78% | 957 / 1000 |
| Prantij (M) | 23,596 | 84.09% | 951 / 1000 |
| Vadali (M) | 20,646 | 77.67% | 950 / 1000 |
| Talod (M) | 18,298 | 82.50% | 929 / 1000 |
| Bayad (M) | 17,886 | 82.86% | 912 / 1000 |