Sikar
Population
- Population
- 26.77 LIndia 121.09 Cr
- Urban %
- 23.68%India 31.14%
Literacy
- Literacy
- 71.91%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 85.11%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 58.23%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 26.88 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 947 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 848 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 14.19%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 15.64%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 2.81%India 8.63%
- Household
- 6.02India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 37.59%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 26.77%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 69.42%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 62.41%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.
Sikar in context
With 26,77,333 people at the 2011 Census, Sikar was the 151st most populous of India's 640 districts and the 6th most populous of Rajasthan's 33. That is 3.9% of everyone living in Rajasthan at the time.
Literacy stood at 71.91%, 1.1 points below the national 72.98% — 5.8 points above the Rajasthan average. That ranked it 328th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 26.9 points, 10.6 points above the national gap of 16.3.
The sex ratio was 947 women per 1,000 men (19 above the Rajasthan figure of 928). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 848, 70 below the national 918.
37.6% of the population were recorded as workers, 6.0 points below the Rajasthan rate. Female work participation was 26.8%, 8.3 points below the state figure.
Sikar contained 15 towns — 9 with a municipal body of some kind, and 6 classed as census towns, meaning they met the census's urban test without having one. The largest was Sikar (M Cl), with 2,37,532 people. That put 23.7% of the district in urban areas, 1.2 points below the Rajasthan share of 24.9%.
Towns in Sikar
Sikar has 15 census towns. The largest are listed below.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sikar (M Cl) | 2.38 L | 75.61% | 931 / 1000 |
| Fatehpur (M) | 92,595 | 74.73% | 945 / 1000 |
| Lachhmangarh (M) | 53,392 | 72.70% | 951 / 1000 |
| Neem-Ka-Thana (M) | 36,231 | 82.32% | 900 / 1000 |
| Ramgarh (M) | 33,024 | 71.89% | 937 / 1000 |
| Shrimadhopur (M) | 31,366 | 83.53% | 901 / 1000 |
| Losal (M) | 28,504 | 67.69% | 1009 / 1000 |
| Reengus (M) | 26,139 | 77.03% | 909 / 1000 |