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Punjab districts

Punjab

Shahid Bhagat Singh Nagar

6,12,310
people at the 2011 Census · 3.13 L male, 2.99 L female

Population

Population
6.12 LIndia 121.09 Cr
Urban %
20.48%India 31.14%

Literacy

Literacy
79.78%India 72.98%
Male Lit.
85.41%India 80.88%
Female Lit.
73.93%India 64.63%
Lit. Gap
11.48 ppIndia 16.25 pp

Society

Sex Ratio
954 / 1000India 943 / 1000
Child Sex Ratio
885 / 1000India 918 / 1000
Under 7
10.24%India 13.59%
SC %
42.51%India 16.63%
ST %
0.00%India 8.63%
Household
4.73India 4.85

Work

Workers
33.37%India 39.80%
Female Work
11.40%India 25.52%
Main Workers
84.92%India 75.24%
Non-Workers
66.63%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.

Shahid Bhagat Singh Nagar in context

With 6,12,310 people at the 2011 Census, Shahid Bhagat Singh Nagar was the 522nd most populous of India's 640 districts and the 18th most populous of Punjab's 20. That is 2.2% of everyone living in Punjab at the time.

Literacy stood at 79.78%, 6.8 points above the national 72.98% — 3.9 points above the Punjab average. That ranked it 166th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 11.5 points, 4.8 points below the national gap of 16.3.

The sex ratio was 954 women per 1,000 men (59 above the Punjab figure of 895). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 885, 33 below the national 918.

Shahid Bhagat Singh Nagar contained 8 towns — 4 with a municipal body of some kind, and 4 classed as census towns, meaning they met the census's urban test without having one. The largest was Nawanshahr (M Cl), with 46,024 people. That put 20.5% of the district in urban areas, 17.0 points below the Punjab share of 37.5%.

Towns in Shahid Bhagat Singh Nagar

Shahid Bhagat Singh Nagar has 8 census towns. The largest are listed below.

Largest towns in Shahid Bhagat Singh Nagar by 2011 Census population.
TownPopulationLiteracySex ratio
Nawanshahr (M Cl)46,02485.00%931 / 1000
Balachaur (M Cl)21,63180.91%935 / 1000
Banga (M Cl)20,90684.68%952 / 1000
Rahon (M Cl)15,67680.12%896 / 1000
Rail (CT)7,58980.51%800 / 1000
Khothran (CT)5,04681.12%954 / 1000
Saloh (CT)4,48176.94%899 / 1000
Aur (CT)4,06383.14%1011 / 1000