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Town including outgrowths · Census 2011 · code 800286
Chandigarh population. Households, literacy and work.
A detailed town profile in Chandigarh, using the original Primary Census Abstract. Every figure on this page belongs to the source’s 2011 population and 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. This is not a present-day population or an urban-agglomeration total.
The source records 220,520 households and 970,602 residents. These household and person counts are separate measures.
Children aged 0–6 accounted for 10.99% of residents. This historical age group helps describe the age structure in 2011; it does not measure today’s children.
Male literacy was 90.29% and female literacy was 81.76%, each calculated among the corresponding population aged 7 and above.
Of 369,442 Census workers, 95.54% were main workers. Census work includes more than salaried employment.
What kinds of work were recorded?
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Economic activity
Main workers
Marginal workers
Cultivators
1,609
331
Agricultural labourers
1,107
248
Household industry workers
3,920
540
Other workers
346,320
15,367
Cultivators, agricultural labourers, household industry workers and other workers are separate Census activity categories. A worker count is not a count of employees on a company payroll.
Using the profile in research
These are historical counts, not current market estimates or present-day projections for this town. Read the research guidance before choosing a denominator or adding eligibility, adoption and spending assumptions.
Definitions, calculation methods and source access
Literacy uses people aged 7 and above; work participation uses all residents. Main workers worked at least six months. Households are the PCA household count, not houses. Rates with zero denominators are unavailable. Names and boundaries belong to Census 2011.
The main profile combines the selected, non-overlapping components. A municipal-core row and its wider row including outgrowths are not added together.
Town proper, excluding outgrowths
The source also supplies a narrower town-proper record. It contains 961,587 people. This component is already inside the wider total and must not be added again.
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Indicator · Census 2011
Total
Males
Females
Populationpeople
961,587
525,629
435,958
Children aged 0–6people aged 0–6
105,520
56,287
49,233
Literate populationliterate people aged 7+
739,784
423,644
316,140
Literacy rate% of the corresponding population aged 7+
86.42%
90.26%
81.75%
Scheduled Castes populationpeople
184,422
98,253
86,169
Scheduled Tribes populationpeople
0
0
0
Total workersCensus workers
365,515
294,441
71,074
Work participation rate% of the corresponding total population