District Census 2011

Census is the process by which the information of a given population is calculated on the basis of economical, educational and social records, in a given period of time. Census is calculated after regular time intervals. These are some basic census facts. In India, the census is carried out every 5 years. The last census was calculated in the year 2011. This official census 2011 was the 15th census calculation which was done India. It was carried out in two main phases- population listing and house enumeration.

In the phase 1, the house listing started on April 1st 2010. All the information on housing complexes and buildings were taken into account. This census of 2011 included more than 2.7 million visited homes, from 6 lakh villages, 7742 towns, 5767 tehsils and 640 districts covering the 28 states and 7 union territories of the country. Classification was made according to sex, caste, occupation, ownership statuses, type of housing, facilities present in the buildings, water facilities number of people per house, fuel used for cooking, kitchen and bathroom facilities, gadgets owned, vehicles owned, banking facilities and standard of living. All this was calculated and a basic report was submitted. The second phase of population listing contained categories of name of the person, sex, age, relationship to head of the family, marital status, date of birth, age at marriage, caste, religion, mother tongue, disability, literacy status, highest level of education, occupation, cultural and economic activities, non economic activities, travel to work details, place of residence, migratory reason, number children born alive, surviving children and duration of stay. All this information was collected, assimilated and the final report was given. Both phase 1 and phase 2 helped in calculation of several census categories in India. This information was used even in District Census 2011 and the Urban Population Census 2011. This information under the same categories and presented the report for the Census Facts 2011 Districts and Urban Census 2011 too.



According to the Census Statistics 2011, the population of India was 1,210,193,422 with 623,724,248 males and 586,469,174 females. Literacy was found to be a total of 74.04% with 65.46% literate females and 82.14% males. This was a 9.81% increase since the last census. The density of population was found out to be 382 per square kilometers. The total sex ratio was 940 females to 1000 males. The child sex ratio (of ages 0 to 6 years old) was 914 females to 1000 males. The growth rate was 17.64% and the death rate was 21.5%.