Sangrur
Population
- Population
- 16.55 LIndia 121.09 Cr
- Urban %
- 31.17%India 31.14%
Literacy
- Literacy
- 67.99%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 73.18%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 62.17%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 11.01 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 885 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 840 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 10.96%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 27.89%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 0.00%India 8.63%
- Household
- 5.19India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 34.36%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 10.76%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 87.87%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 65.64%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.
Sangrur in context
With 16,55,169 people at the 2011 Census, Sangrur was the 300th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 7th most populous of Punjab's 20. That is 6.0% of everyone living in Punjab at the time.
Literacy stood at 67.99%, 5.0 points below the national 72.98% — 7.9 points below the Punjab average. That ranked it 425th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 11.0 points, 5.2 points below the national gap of 16.3.
The sex ratio was 885 women per 1,000 men (10 below the Punjab figure of 895). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 840, 78 below the national 918.
Sangrur contained 13 towns — 12 with a municipal body of some kind, and 1 classed as census towns, meaning they met the census's urban test without having one. The largest was Malerkotla (M Cl), with 1,35,424 people. That put 31.2% of the district in urban areas, 6.3 points below the Punjab share of 37.5%.
Towns in Sangrur
Sangrur has 13 census towns. The largest are listed below.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Malerkotla (M Cl) | 1.35 L | 69.10% | 897 / 1000 |
| Sangrur (M Cl) | 88,043 | 83.54% | 876 / 1000 |
| Sunam Udham Singh Wala (M Cl) | 55,455 | 77.97% | 882 / 1000 |
| Dhuri (M Cl) | 55,225 | 81.68% | 889 / 1000 |
| Ahmedgarh (M Cl) | 31,302 | 83.16% | 901 / 1000 |
| Longowal (M Cl) | 23,851 | 67.12% | 830 / 1000 |
| Lehragaga (M Cl) | 22,588 | 75.72% | 882 / 1000 |
| Bhawanigarh (M Cl) | 22,320 | 77.56% | 895 / 1000 |