Dhar District Population, Madhya Pradesh - Census India 2011

Dhar is one of district of Madhya Pradesh in India. There are 8 Tehsils, 1,535 villages and 13 towns in Dhar district.

As per the Census India 2011, Dhar district has 425,914 households, population of 2,185,793 of which 1,112,725 are males and 1,073,068 are females. The population of children between age 0-6 is 359,949 which is 16.47% of total population.

The sex-ratio of Dhar district is around 964 compared to 931 which is average of Madhya Pradesh state. The literacy rate of Dhar district is 49.29% out of which 57.38% males are literate and 40.9% females are literate. The total area of Dhar is 8,153 sq.km with population density of 268 per sq.km.

Out of total population, 81.1% of population lives in Urban area and 18.9% lives in Rural area. There are 6.65% Scheduled Caste (SC) and 55.94% Scheduled Tribe (ST) of total population in Dhar district.

Dhar Religion Population

Description	Population	Percentage
Total	2,185,793	100%
Hindu	2,051,219	93.84%
Muslim	116,202	5.32%
Jain	12,199	0.56%
Christian	2,261	0.1%
Religion not stated	1,889	0.09%
Sikh	1,607	0.07%
Buddhist	328	0.02%
Other religions and persuasions	88	0%

Dhar Urban & Rural Population

Out of total population, 50% of population lives in Urban area and 60% lives in Rural area

Description	Urban	Rural
Area(sq.km)	231	7,922
Number of households	86,741	339,173
Total Population	413,221	1,772,572
Population (%)	52.66%	49.5%
Male Population	217,612	895,113
Female Population	195,609	877,459
Sex Ratio	899	980
Literacy (%)	67.97%	44.93%

List of Tehsils in Dhar

Check out complete list of all Tehsils of Dhar district, Madhya Pradesh

Dhar Population Facts

Number of Households	425,914
Population	2,185,793
Male Population	1,112,725 (50.91%)
Female Population	1,073,068 (49.09%)
Children Population	359,949
Area	8,153 km2
Population density/km2	268
Sex-ratio	964
Literacy	49.29%
Male Literacy	57.38%
Female Literacy	40.9%
Scheduled Tribes (ST) %	55.94%
Scheduled Caste (SC) %	6.65%