Thane
Population
- Population
- 1.11 CrIndia 121.09 Cr
- Urban %
- 76.99%India 31.14%
Literacy
- Literacy
- 84.53%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 88.72%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 79.77%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 8.95 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 886 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 924 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 12.00%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 6.60%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 13.95%India 8.63%
- Household
- 4.37India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 40.62%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 21.74%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 87.49%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 59.38%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.
Thane in context
With 1,10,60,148 people at the 2011 Census, Thane was the 1st most populous of India's 640 districts and the most populous of Maharashtra's 35. That is 9.8% of everyone living in Maharashtra at the time.
Literacy stood at 84.53%, 11.5 points above the national 72.98% — 2.2 points above the Maharashtra average. That ranked it 80th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 8.9 points, 7.3 points below the national gap of 16.3.
The sex ratio was 886 women per 1,000 men (43 below the Maharashtra figure of 929).
40.6% of the population were recorded as workers, 3.4 points below the Maharashtra rate. Female work participation was 21.7%, 9.3 points below the state figure.
Thane contained 51 towns — 12 with a municipal body of some kind, and 39 classed as census towns, meaning they met the census's urban test without having one. The largest was Thane (M Corp.), with 18,41,488 people. That put 77.0% of the district in urban areas, 31.8 points above the Maharashtra share of 45.2%.
Towns in Thane
Thane has 51 census towns. The largest are listed below.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thane (M Corp.) | 18.41 L | 89.41% | 888 / 1000 |
| Kalyan-Dombivli (M Corp.) | 12.47 L | 91.37% | 920 / 1000 |
| Vasai-Virar City (M Corp) | 12.22 L | 88.57% | 886 / 1000 |
| Navi Mumbai (M Corp.) | 11.21 L | 89.62% | 837 / 1000 |
| Mira-Bhayandar (M Corp.) | 8.09 L | 90.98% | 886 / 1000 |
| Bhiwandi Nizampur (M Corp.) | 7.10 L | 79.48% | 709 / 1000 |
| Ulhasnagar (M Corp.) | 5.06 L | 87.49% | 881 / 1000 |
| Ambarnath(M Cl) | 2.53 L | 87.22% | 912 / 1000 |