Surat
Population
- Population
- 60.81 LIndia 121.09 Cr
- Urban %
- 79.74%India 31.14%
Literacy
- Literacy
- 85.53%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 89.56%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 80.37%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 9.19 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 787 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 835 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 12.11%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 2.60%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 14.09%India 8.63%
- Household
- 4.56India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 41.99%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 15.33%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 94.19%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 58.01%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.
Surat in context
With 60,81,322 people at the 2011 Census, Surat was the 12th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 2nd most populous of Gujarat's 26. That is 10.1% of everyone living in Gujarat at the time.
Literacy stood at 85.53%, 12.5 points above the national 72.98% — 7.5 points above the Gujarat average. That ranked it 63rd of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 9.2 points, 7.1 points below the national gap of 16.3.
The sex ratio was 787 women per 1,000 men (132 below the Gujarat figure of 919). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 835, 83 below the national 918.
Female work participation was 15.3%, 8.0 points below the state figure.
Surat contained 22 towns — 8 with a municipal body of some kind, and 14 classed as census towns, meaning they met the census's urban test without having one. The largest was Surat (M Corp.), with 44,67,797 people. That put 79.7% of the district in urban areas, 37.1 points above the Gujarat share of 42.6%.
Towns in Surat
Surat has 22 census towns. The largest are listed below.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Surat (M Corp.) | 44.68 L | 87.89% | 756 / 1000 |
| Bardoli (M) | 60,821 | 86.78% | 960 / 1000 |
| Tarsadi (M) | 29,305 | 87.90% | 894 / 1000 |
| Kansad (M) | 28,327 | 89.46% | 767 / 1000 |
| Sachin (CT) | 28,102 | 82.53% | 580 / 1000 |
| Kadodara (CT) | 27,336 | 85.18% | 612 / 1000 |
| Chalthan (CT) | 21,795 | 89.14% | 789 / 1000 |
| Kim (CT) | 18,638 | 89.25% | 870 / 1000 |