Garhwal District Population, Uttarakhand - Census India 2011

Garhwal is one of district of Uttarakhand in India. There are 9 Tehsils, 3,473 villages and 10 towns in Garhwal district.

As per the Census India 2011, Garhwal district has 161,778 households, population of 687,271 of which 326,829 are males and 360,442 are females. The population of children between age 0-6 is 83,901 which is 12.21% of total population.

The sex-ratio of Garhwal district is around 1103 compared to 963 which is average of Uttarakhand state. The literacy rate of Garhwal district is 72.01% out of which 80.21% males are literate and 64.57% females are literate. The total area of Garhwal is 5,329 sq.km with population density of 129 per sq.km.

Out of total population, 83.6% of population lives in Urban area and 16.4% lives in Rural area. There are 17.8% Scheduled Caste (SC) and 0.32% Scheduled Tribe (ST) of total population in Garhwal district.

Garhwal Religion Population

Description	Population	Percentage
Total	687,271	100%
Hindu	660,507	96.11%
Muslim	22,931	3.34%
Christian	2,161	0.31%
Religion not stated	732	0.11%
Sikh	619	0.09%
Jain	212	0.03%
Buddhist	58	0.01%
Other religions and persuasions	51	0.01%

Garhwal 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)	72	5,257
Number of households	25,598	136,180
Total Population	112,703	574,568
Population (%)	52.17%	53.35%
Male Population	58,800	268,029
Female Population	53,903	306,539
Sex Ratio	917	1144
Literacy (%)	80.15%	70.41%

List of Tehsils in Garhwal

Check out complete list of all Tehsils of Garhwal district, Uttarakhand

Garhwal Population Facts

Number of Households	161,778
Population	687,271
Male Population	326,829 (47.55%)
Female Population	360,442 (52.45%)
Children Population	83,901
Area	5,329 km2
Population density/km2	129
Sex-ratio	1103
Literacy	72.01%
Male Literacy	80.21%
Female Literacy	64.57%
Scheduled Tribes (ST) %	0.32%
Scheduled Caste (SC) %	17.8%