Sirmaur
Population
- Population
- 5.30 LIndia 121.09 Cr
- Urban %
- 10.79%India 31.14%
Literacy
- Literacy
- 78.80%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 85.61%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 71.36%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 14.25 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 918 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 928 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 13.14%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 30.34%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 2.13%India 8.63%
- Household
- 5.40India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 52.86%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 43.65%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 69.23%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 47.14%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.
Sirmaur in context
With 5,29,855 people at the 2011 Census, Sirmaur was the 542nd most populous of India's 640 districts and the 5th most populous of Himachal Pradesh's 12. That is 7.7% of everyone living in Himachal Pradesh at the time.
Literacy stood at 78.80%, 5.8 points above the national 72.98% — 4.0 points below the Himachal Pradesh average. That ranked it 183rd of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 14.3 points, 2.0 points below the national gap of 16.3.
The sex ratio was 918 women per 1,000 men (54 below the Himachal Pradesh figure of 972).
Sirmaur contained 3 towns. The largest was Nahan (M Cl), with 28,899 people. That put 10.8% of the district in urban areas, 0.8 points above the Himachal Pradesh share of 10.0%.
Towns in Sirmaur
Sirmaur has 3 census towns. The largest are listed below.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nahan (M Cl) | 28,899 | 91.49% | 898 / 1000 |
| Paonta Sahib (M Cl) | 25,183 | 89.83% | 898 / 1000 |
| Rajgarh (NP) | 3,083 | 90.78% | 898 / 1000 |