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Uttar Pradesh districts

Uttar Pradesh

Shahjahanpur

30,06,538
people at the 2011 Census · 16.06 L male, 14.00 L female

Population

Population
30.07 LIndia 121.09 Cr
Urban %
19.76%India 31.14%

Literacy

Literacy
59.54%India 72.98%
Male Lit.
68.18%India 80.88%
Female Lit.
49.57%India 64.63%
Lit. Gap
18.61 ppIndia 16.25 pp

Society

Sex Ratio
872 / 1000India 943 / 1000
Child Sex Ratio
903 / 1000India 918 / 1000
Under 7
16.72%India 13.59%
SC %
17.72%India 16.63%
ST %
0.02%India 8.63%
Household
5.70India 4.85

Work

Workers
29.68%India 39.80%
Female Work
7.78%India 25.52%
Main Workers
78.40%India 75.24%
Non-Workers
70.32%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.

Shahjahanpur in context

With 30,06,538 people at the 2011 Census, Shahjahanpur was the 123rd most populous of India's 640 districts and the 33rd most populous of Uttar Pradesh's 71. That is 1.5% of everyone living in Uttar Pradesh at the time.

Literacy stood at 59.54%, 13.4 points below the national 72.98% — 8.1 points below the Uttar Pradesh average. That ranked it 569th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 18.6 points, 2.4 points above the national gap of 16.3.

The sex ratio was 872 women per 1,000 men (40 below the Uttar Pradesh figure of 912). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 903, 15 below the national 918.

29.7% of the population were recorded as workers, 3.3 points below the Uttar Pradesh rate. Female work participation was 7.8%, 9.0 points below the state figure.

Shahjahanpur contained 11 towns. The largest was Shahjahanpur (NPP), with 3,29,736 people. That put 19.8% of the district in urban areas, 2.5 points below the Uttar Pradesh share of 22.3%.

Towns in Shahjahanpur

Shahjahanpur has 11 census towns. The largest are listed below.

Largest towns in Shahjahanpur by 2011 Census population.
TownPopulationLiteracySex ratio
Shahjahanpur (NPP)3.30 L67.25%906 / 1000
Tilhar (NPP)61,44450.77%926 / 1000
Jalalabad (NPP)38,20268.18%890 / 1000
Katra (NP)32,44049.42%883 / 1000
Powayan (NP)28,61373.19%899 / 1000
Kanth (NP)27,13749.28%885 / 1000
Shahjahanpur (CB)18,11683.81%823 / 1000
Khutar (NP)17,42366.73%900 / 1000
All 11 towns in Shahjahanpur