Jhajjar (District)
| Jhajjar District झज्जर जिला |
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| State | Haryana |
| Administrative headquarters : | Jhajjar |
| Area : | 1834 km² |
| Residents : | 958,405 (2011) |
| Population density : | 523 inhabitants / km² |
| Website : | www.jhajjar.gov.in |
Jhajjar ( Hindi झज्जर जिला Jhajjar Jila ) is a district in the Indian state of Haryana .
The area is 1834 km². The administrative seat is the city of the same name, Jhajjar . The district belongs to the wider metropolitan area of Delhi .
history
The district was founded on July 15, 1997 and was formed from parts of Rohtak .
population
Population statistics have been available since 1991:
| year | 1991 | 2001 | 2011 |
| Residents | 715.200 | 880.072 | 958.405 |
The population was 958,405 (2011). The population growth rate in the period from 2001 to 2011 was 8.90%. Jhajjar has a gender ratio of 862 women per 1000 men and thus a common surplus of men for India. For every 782 female newborns, there were 1,000 male newborns, making the district the highest surplus of boys in India. In some villages, twice as many boys as girls were born, mainly due to gender-selective abortion . The district had a literacy rate of 80.65% in 2011 , an increase of almost 8 percentage points compared to 2001. The literacy rate is thus above the national average. Almost 98.7% of the population are Hindus , approx. 0.9% are Muslims , approx. 0.1% each are Jainas , Christians and Sikhs and approx. 0.2% did not belong to any religion or belonged to other religions. Children under 6 years of age are 12.5% of the population. The Haryanvi language, a dialect of Hindi, is common in the district .
Almost 25.4% of the population live in cities. The largest city is Bahadurgarh with 170,767 inhabitants.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jhajiar District - Population 1991–2011
- ↑ 2011 census (PDF; 398 kB)
- ^ Indian Districts by Population, Sex Ratio, Literacy 2011 Census. Retrieved April 16, 2019 .
