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Uttarakhand districts

Uttarakhand

Tehri Garhwal

6,18,931
people at the 2011 Census · 2.98 L male, 3.21 L female

Population

Population
6.19 LIndia 121.09 Cr
Urban %
11.33%India 31.14%

Literacy

Literacy
76.36%India 72.98%
Male Lit.
89.76%India 80.88%
Female Lit.
64.28%India 64.63%
Lit. Gap
25.48 ppIndia 16.25 pp

Society

Sex Ratio
1077 / 1000India 943 / 1000
Child Sex Ratio
897 / 1000India 918 / 1000
Under 7
13.68%India 13.59%
SC %
16.50%India 16.63%
ST %
0.14%India 8.63%
Household
4.66India 4.85

Work

Workers
45.31%India 39.80%
Female Work
43.50%India 25.52%
Main Workers
59.16%India 75.24%
Non-Workers
54.69%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.

Tehri Garhwal in context

With 6,18,931 people at the 2011 Census, Tehri Garhwal was the 518th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 7th most populous of Uttarakhand's 13. That is 6.1% of everyone living in Uttarakhand at the time.

Literacy stood at 76.36%, 3.4 points above the national 72.98% — 2.5 points below the Uttarakhand average. That ranked it 224th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 25.5 points, 9.2 points above the national gap of 16.3.

The sex ratio was 1077 women per 1,000 men (114 above the Uttarakhand figure of 963) — one of the minority of districts where women outnumbered men. Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 897, 21 below the national 918.

45.3% of the population were recorded as workers, 6.9 points above the Uttarakhand rate. Female work participation was 43.5%, 16.8 points above the state figure.

Tehri Garhwal contained 7 towns — 6 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 Tehri (NPP), with 24,014 people. That put 11.3% of the district in urban areas, 18.9 points below the Uttarakhand share of 30.2%.

Towns in Tehri Garhwal

Tehri Garhwal has 7 census towns. The largest are listed below.

Largest towns in Tehri Garhwal by 2011 Census population.
TownPopulationLiteracySex ratio
Tehri (NPP)24,01490.55%823 / 1000
Dhaluwala (CT)18,01688.17%903 / 1000
Muni Ki Reti (NP)10,62085.55%680 / 1000
Chamba (NP)7,77189.04%873 / 1000
Narendranagar (NPP)6,04989.60%732 / 1000
Devaprayag (NP) (Part)2,15291.67%935 / 1000
Kirtinagar (NP)1,51781.25%704 / 1000