South West
Population
- Population
- 22.93 LIndia 121.09 Cr
- Urban %
- 93.73%India 31.14%
Literacy
- Literacy
- 88.28%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 93.14%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 82.50%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 10.64 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 840 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 845 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 11.69%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 13.89%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 0.00%India 8.63%
- Household
- 4.64India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 34.69%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 12.17%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 94.30%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 65.31%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 West in context
With 22,92,958 people at the 2011 Census, South West was the 199th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 4th most populous of Delhi's 9. That is 13.7% of everyone living in Delhi at the time.
Literacy stood at 88.28%, 15.3 points above the national 72.98% — 2.1 points above the Delhi average. That ranked it 36th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 10.6 points, 5.6 points below the national gap of 16.3.
The sex ratio was 840 women per 1,000 men (28 below the Delhi figure of 868). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 845, 73 below the national 918.
South West contained 23 towns — 6 with a municipal body of some kind, and 17 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 10,27,222 people. That put 93.7% of the district in urban areas, 3.8 points below the Delhi share of 97.5%.
Towns in South West
South West has 23 census towns. The largest are listed below.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| DMC (U) (Part) | 10.27 L | 89.11% | 876 / 1000 |
| DMC (U) (Part) | 3.88 L | 89.32% | 871 / 1000 |
| DMC (U) (Part) | 1.63 L | 86.02% | 805 / 1000 |
| Delhi Cantonment (CB) (Part) | 1.02 L | 89.57% | 729 / 1000 |
| NDMC (Part) | 78,663 | 91.51% | 836 / 1000 |
| Kapas Hera (CT) | 74,073 | 84.49% | 478 / 1000 |
| Roshan Pura alias Dichaon Khurd (CT) | 57,217 | 88.99% | 878 / 1000 |
| Nangli Sakrawati (CT) | 37,706 | 85.17% | 843 / 1000 |