Sonipat
Population
- Population
- 14.50 LIndia 121.09 Cr
- Urban %
- 31.27%India 31.14%
Literacy
- Literacy
- 79.12%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 87.18%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 69.80%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 17.38 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 856 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 798 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 12.98%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 18.62%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 0.00%India 8.63%
- Household
- 5.22India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 36.08%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 19.75%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 75.84%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 63.92%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.
Sonipat in context
With 14,50,001 people at the 2011 Census, Sonipat was the 342nd most populous of India's 640 districts and the 6th most populous of Haryana's 21. That is 5.7% of everyone living in Haryana at the time.
Literacy stood at 79.12%, 6.1 points above the national 72.98% — 3.6 points above the Haryana average. That ranked it 175th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 17.4 points, 1.1 points above the national gap of 16.3.
The sex ratio was 856 women per 1,000 men (23 below the Haryana figure of 879). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 798, 120 below the national 918.
Sonipat 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 Sonipat (M Cl), with 2,78,149 people. That put 31.3% of the district in urban areas, 3.6 points below the Haryana share of 34.9%.
Towns in Sonipat
Sonipat has 8 census towns. The largest are listed below.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sonipat (M Cl) | 2.78 L | 85.48% | 875 / 1000 |
| Gohana (MC) | 65,708 | 81.90% | 886 / 1000 |
| Ganaur (MC) | 35,603 | 83.56% | 875 / 1000 |
| Kharkhoda (MC) | 25,051 | 79.90% | 865 / 1000 |
| Kundli (55) (CT) | 21,633 | 79.81% | 798 / 1000 |
| Badh Malak (68) (CT) | 6,938 | 80.61% | 788 / 1000 |
| Bayyanpur (207) (CT) | 5,406 | 80.14% | 857 / 1000 |
| Fazalpur (81) (CT) | 3,692 | 81.48% | 796 / 1000 |