Shimla
Population
- Population
- 8.14 LIndia 121.09 Cr
- Urban %
- 24.74%India 31.14%
Literacy
- Literacy
- 83.64%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 89.59%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 77.13%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 12.46 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 915 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 925 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 10.02%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 26.51%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 1.08%India 8.63%
- Household
- 4.42India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 52.94%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 44.30%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 72.35%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 47.06%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.
Shimla in context
With 8,14,010 people at the 2011 Census, Shimla was the 483rd most populous of India's 640 districts and the 3rd most populous of Himachal Pradesh's 12. That is 11.9% of everyone living in Himachal Pradesh at the time.
Literacy stood at 83.64%, 10.7 points above the national 72.98% — 0.8 points above the Himachal Pradesh average. That ranked it 98th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 12.5 points, 3.8 points below the national gap of 16.3.
The sex ratio was 915 women per 1,000 men (57 below the Himachal Pradesh figure of 972).
Shimla contained 11 towns — 10 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 Shimla (M Corp.), with 1,69,578 people. That put 24.7% of the district in urban areas, 14.7 points above the Himachal Pradesh share of 10.0%.
Towns in Shimla
Shimla has 11 census towns. The largest are listed below.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shimla (M Corp.) | 1.70 L | 93.63% | 820 / 1000 |
| Rohru (M Cl) | 6,875 | 88.27% | 829 / 1000 |
| Rampur (M Cl) | 5,655 | 93.02% | 902 / 1000 |
| Jhakhri (CT) | 4,655 | 89.47% | 784 / 1000 |
| Theog (M Cl) | 4,353 | 93.21% | 954 / 1000 |
| Seoni (NP) | 2,591 | 90.20% | 849 / 1000 |
| Jutogh (CB) | 2,062 | 90.04% | 438 / 1000 |
| Chaupal (NP) | 1,851 | 89.46% | 794 / 1000 |