Sahibzada Ajit Singh Nagar
Population
- Population
- 9.95 LIndia 121.09 Cr
- Urban %
- 54.76%India 31.14%
Literacy
- Literacy
- 83.80%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 87.89%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 79.18%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 8.71 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 879 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 841 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 11.63%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 21.74%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 0.00%India 8.63%
- Household
- 4.84India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 35.79%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 15.61%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 88.83%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 64.21%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.
Sahibzada Ajit Singh Nagar in context
With 9,94,628 people at the 2011 Census, Sahibzada Ajit Singh Nagar was the 448th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 12th most populous of Punjab's 20. That is 3.6% of everyone living in Punjab at the time.
Literacy stood at 83.80%, 10.8 points above the national 72.98% — 8.0 points above the Punjab average. That ranked it 95th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 8.7 points, 7.5 points below the national gap of 16.3.
The sex ratio was 879 women per 1,000 men (16 below the Punjab figure of 895). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 841, 77 below the national 918.
Sahibzada Ajit Singh Nagar contained 15 towns — 7 with a municipal body of some kind, and 8 classed as census towns, meaning they met the census's urban test without having one. The largest was S.A.S. Nagar (Mohali) (M Cl), with 1,46,213 people. That put 54.8% of the district in urban areas, 17.3 points above the Punjab share of 37.5%.
Towns in Sahibzada Ajit Singh Nagar
Sahibzada Ajit Singh Nagar has 15 census towns. The largest are listed below.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| S.A.S. Nagar (Mohali) (M Cl) | 1.46 L | 91.96% | 911 / 1000 |
| Zirakpur (M Cl) | 95,553 | 88.30% | 892 / 1000 |
| Kharar (M Cl) | 74,460 | 87.85% | 899 / 1000 |
| Naya Gaon (NP) | 50,869 | 82.61% | 853 / 1000 |
| Kurali (M Cl) | 31,060 | 86.09% | 881 / 1000 |
| Dera Bassi (M Cl) | 26,295 | 90.13% | 865 / 1000 |
| Lalru (CT) | 21,394 | 82.56% | 899 / 1000 |
| Banur (M Cl) | 18,775 | 76.94% | 899 / 1000 |