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Punjab districts

Punjab

Tarn Taran

11,19,627
people at the 2011 Census · 5.89 L male, 5.30 L female

Population

Population
11.20 LIndia 121.09 Cr
Urban %
12.66%India 31.14%

Literacy

Literacy
67.81%India 72.98%
Male Lit.
73.24%India 80.88%
Female Lit.
61.85%India 64.63%
Lit. Gap
11.39 ppIndia 16.25 pp

Society

Sex Ratio
900 / 1000India 943 / 1000
Child Sex Ratio
820 / 1000India 918 / 1000
Under 7
12.26%India 13.59%
SC %
33.71%India 16.63%
ST %
0.00%India 8.63%
Household
5.50India 4.85

Work

Workers
34.00%India 39.80%
Female Work
12.65%India 25.52%
Main Workers
83.09%India 75.24%
Non-Workers
66.00%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.

Tarn Taran in context

With 11,19,627 people at the 2011 Census, Tarn Taran was the 413th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 10th most populous of Punjab's 20. That is 4.0% of everyone living in Punjab at the time.

Literacy stood at 67.81%, 5.2 points below the national 72.98% — 8.0 points below the Punjab average. That ranked it 431st of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 11.4 points, 4.9 points below the national gap of 16.3.

The sex ratio was 900 women per 1,000 men (5 above the Punjab figure of 895). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 820, 98 below the national 918.

Tarn Taran contained 4 towns — 3 with a municipal body of some kind, and 1 classed as census towns, meaning they met the census's urban test without having one. The largest was Tarn Taran (M Cl), with 66,847 people. That put 12.7% of the district in urban areas, 24.8 points below the Punjab share of 37.5%.

Towns in Tarn Taran

Tarn Taran has 4 census towns. The largest are listed below.

Largest towns in Tarn Taran by 2011 Census population.
TownPopulationLiteracySex ratio
Tarn Taran (M Cl)66,84779.33%913 / 1000
Patti (M Cl)40,97677.76%891 / 1000
Bhikhiwind (CT)20,52674.41%860 / 1000
Khem Karan (NP)13,44661.55%819 / 1000