Samba

With 3,18,898 people at the 2011 Census, Samba was the 568th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 15th most populous of Jammu and Kashmir's 22. That is 2.5% of everyone living in Jammu and Kashmir at the time.

Literacy stood at 81.41%, 8.4 points above the national 72.98% — 14.3 points above the Jammu and Kashmir average. That ranked it 139th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 14.8 points, 1.5 points below the national gap of 16.3.

The sex ratio was 886 women per 1,000 men (level with the Jammu and Kashmir figure of 889). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 779, 139 below the national 918.

29.0% of the population were recorded as workers, 5.5 points below the Jammu and Kashmir rate. Female work participation was 7.1%, 12.1 points below the state figure.

Samba contained 6 towns — 4 with a municipal body of some kind, and 2 classed as census towns, meaning they met the census's urban test without having one. The largest was Bari Brahamana (MC), with 15,453 people. That put 16.8% of the district in urban areas, 10.6 points below the Jammu and Kashmir share of 27.4%.