Uttarkashi
Population
- Population
- 3.30 LIndia 121.09 Cr
- Urban %
- 7.36%India 31.14%
Literacy
- Literacy
- 75.81%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 88.79%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 62.35%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 26.44 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 958 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 916 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 14.03%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 24.41%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 1.06%India 8.63%
- Household
- 4.88India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 47.65%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 45.21%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 81.62%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 52.35%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.
Uttarkashi in context
With 3,30,086 people at the 2011 Census, Uttarkashi was the 567th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 10th most populous of Uttarakhand's 13. That is 3.3% of everyone living in Uttarakhand at the time.
Literacy stood at 75.81%, 2.8 points above the national 72.98% — 3.0 points below the Uttarakhand average. That ranked it 239th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 26.4 points, 10.2 points above the national gap of 16.3.
The sex ratio was 958 women per 1,000 men (5 below the Uttarakhand figure of 963).
47.6% of the population were recorded as workers, 9.3 points above the Uttarakhand rate. Female work participation was 45.2%, 18.5 points above the state figure.
Uttarkashi contained 3 towns. The largest was Uttarkashi (NPP), with 17,475 people. That put 7.4% of the district in urban areas, 22.9 points below the Uttarakhand share of 30.2%.
Towns in Uttarkashi
Uttarkashi has 3 census towns. The largest are listed below.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Uttarkashi (NPP) | 17,475 | 90.36% | 820 / 1000 |
| Barkot (NP) | 6,720 | 84.22% | 907 / 1000 |
| Gangotri (NP) | 110 | 99.09% | 134 / 1000 |