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Jalandhar population.Households, literacy and work. Primary Census Abstract for this town in Punjab, using 2011 geography.
Historical geographic unit. Census 2011 town boundary and classification. The primary total includes the outgrowths (OG) explicitly included in the source name; it is not a municipal-core-only count. The town total is our sum of 2 separately published geographic parts, all sharing this Census town code. This is not a present-day population or an urban-agglomeration total.
Population 868,929 people
Households 186,174 PCA households
Literacy rate 86.2% % of people aged 7+
Work participation 36.82% % of all residents
Population, children, literacy and work by sex Scroll the table sideways to see every column.
Indicator · Census 2011 Total Males Females Populationpeople 868,929 460,811 408,118 Children aged 0–6people aged 0–6 90,044 48,231 41,813 Literate populationliterate people aged 7+ 671,377 366,393 304,984 Literacy rate% of the corresponding population aged 7+ 86.2% 88.81% 83.26% Scheduled Castes populationpeople 236,904 124,417 112,487 Scheduled Tribes populationpeople 0 0 0 Total workersCensus workers 319,925 259,185 60,740 Work participation rate% of the corresponding total population 36.82% 56.25% 14.88% Main workersworked at least 6 months 289,247 240,320 48,927 Marginal workersworked less than 6 months 30,678 18,865 11,813 Non-workerspeople 549,004 201,626 347,378
Percentages use the denominator shown in the table.
Census of India · original Primary Census Abstract Source access notes and archived workbooks
What stands out in this profile? Census 2011 recorded 186,174 households and 868,929 residents. Children aged 0–6 made up 10.36% of residents. Among people aged 7 and above, literacy was 88.81% for males and 83.26% for females. Of 319,925 workers, 90.41% were main workers. What kinds of work were recorded? Scroll the table sideways to see every column.
Economic activity Main workers Marginal workers Cultivators 2,659 916 Agricultural labourers 3,419 1,090 Household industry workers 11,943 1,985 Other workers 271,226 26,687
The Census counts economic activity, including qualifying unpaid work.
Source components of this town Scroll the table sideways to see every column.
Published component District code Subdistrict code People Jalandhar (M Corp. + OG) (Part) 037 00212 868,181 Jalandhar (M Corp. + OG) (Part) 037 00213 748
The profile combines non-overlapping source components.