Udhampur

With 5,54,985 people at the 2011 Census, Udhampur was the 538th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 10th most populous of Jammu and Kashmir's 22. That is 4.4% of everyone living in Jammu and Kashmir at the time.

Literacy stood at 68.49%, 4.5 points below the national 72.98% — 1.3 points above the Jammu and Kashmir average. That ranked it 414th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 21.3 points, 5.0 points above the national gap of 16.3.

The sex ratio was 870 women per 1,000 men (19 below the Jammu and Kashmir figure of 889). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 886, 32 below the national 918.

43.9% of the population were recorded as workers, 9.4 points above the Jammu and Kashmir rate. Female work participation was 30.9%, 11.8 points above the state figure.

Udhampur contained 6 towns — 4 with a municipal body of some kind, and 2 classed as census towns, meaning they met the census's urban test without having one. The largest was Udhampur (M Cl), with 35,507 people. That put 19.5% of the district in urban areas, 7.9 points below the Jammu and Kashmir share of 27.4%.