Varanasi
Population
- Population
- 36.77 LIndia 121.09 Cr
- Urban %
- 43.44%India 31.14%
Literacy
- Literacy
- 75.60%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 83.78%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 66.69%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 17.09 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 913 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 885 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 13.52%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 13.24%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 0.78%India 8.63%
- Household
- 6.56India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 33.20%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 17.06%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 75.43%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 66.80%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.
Varanasi in context
With 36,76,841 people at the 2011 Census, Varanasi was the 75th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 18th most populous of Uttar Pradesh's 71. That is 1.8% of everyone living in Uttar Pradesh at the time.
Literacy stood at 75.60%, 2.6 points above the national 72.98% — 7.9 points above the Uttar Pradesh average. That ranked it 248th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 17.1 points, 0.8 points above the national gap of 16.3.
The sex ratio was 913 women per 1,000 men (level with the Uttar Pradesh figure of 912). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 885, 33 below the national 918.
Varanasi contained 39 towns — 5 with a municipal body of some kind, and 34 classed as census towns, meaning they met the census's urban test without having one. The largest was Varanasi (M Corp.), with 11,98,491 people. That put 43.4% of the district in urban areas, 21.2 points above the Uttar Pradesh share of 22.3%.
Towns in Varanasi
Varanasi has 39 census towns. The largest are listed below.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Varanasi (M Corp.) | 11.98 L | 79.27% | 887 / 1000 |
| Ramnagar (NPP) | 49,132 | 79.92% | 885 / 1000 |
| Lohta (CT) | 25,596 | 60.51% | 920 / 1000 |
| Phulwaria (CT) | 20,466 | 79.58% | 872 / 1000 |
| Shivdaspur (CT) | 16,405 | 78.04% | 904 / 1000 |
| Suzabad (CT) | 15,384 | 68.44% | 867 / 1000 |
| Kotwa (CT) | 14,394 | 58.39% | 851 / 1000 |
| Maruadih Railway Settlement (ITS) | 14,298 | 93.57% | 894 / 1000 |