South
Population
- Population
- 27.32 LIndia 121.09 Cr
- Urban %
- 99.55%India 31.14%
Literacy
- Literacy
- 86.57%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 91.73%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 80.55%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 11.18 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 862 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 885 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 12.12%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 15.48%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 0.00%India 8.63%
- Household
- 4.76India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 33.84%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 11.77%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 94.02%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 66.16%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.
South in context
With 27,31,929 people at the 2011 Census, South was the 144th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 2nd most populous of Delhi's 9. That is 16.3% of everyone living in Delhi at the time.
Literacy stood at 86.57%, 13.6 points above the national 72.98% — level with the Delhi average. That ranked it 52nd of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 11.2 points, 5.1 points below the national gap of 16.3.
The sex ratio was 862 women per 1,000 men (6 below the Delhi figure of 868). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 885, 33 below the national 918.
South contained 28 towns — 5 with a municipal body of some kind, and 23 classed as census towns, meaning they met the census's urban test without having one. The largest urban settlement was the part of DMC (U) falling inside the district, with 7,74,971 people. That put 99.5% of the district in urban areas, 2.0 points above the Delhi share of 97.5%.
Towns in South
South has 28 census towns. The largest are listed below.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| DMC (U) (Part) | 7.75 L | 88.94% | 879 / 1000 |
| DMC (U) (Part) | 5.92 L | 88.87% | 877 / 1000 |
| DMC (U) (Part) | 4.69 L | 82.65% | 829 / 1000 |
| Deoli (CT) | 1.69 L | 84.28% | 860 / 1000 |
| Molar Band (CT) | 91,402 | 87.95% | 851 / 1000 |
| Mithe Pur (CT) | 69,837 | 88.15% | 844 / 1000 |
| Pul Pehlad (CT) | 69,657 | 84.46% | 834 / 1000 |
| Taj Pul (CT) | 68,796 | 87.25% | 850 / 1000 |