District at a Glance
 
1 Administrative Structure
1 Sub-division 5
2 Tehsil 5
3 Sub-Tehsil 4
4 Block 10
5 Town 11
6 Population of Inhabited Villages(Tehsil wise)(2001)  
i) Jalandhar-I 144
ii) Jalandhar-II 247
iii) Nakodar 147
iv) Phillaur 238
v) Shahkot 178
  Total 954
7 Number of Parliament Segment 2
8 Number of Vidhan Sabha Segment 10
2. Area & Population (2001)
(A) Area (Sq. Km) (2003-2004) 2,632
(B) Total Population 1962700
(1) Male 10,40,177
(2) Female 9,22,523
(3) Females per thousand Males 887
(C) Rural Population 10,30,717
I Male 5,39,021
2 Female 4,91,696
3 Rural Population as % to Total Population 52.52
(D) Urban Population 9,31,983
1 Male 5,01,156
2 Female 4,30,827
3 Urban Population as % to Total Population 47.48
(E) Density (Per Sq. Km) 746
(F) Percentage Literacy 78.0
1 Male 82.5
2 Female 73.1
3 Rural 73.9
4 Urban 82.6
(G) Worker (No.) Census-2001  
1 Main worker 598700
2 Marginal worker 75934
3 worker as % to total population 30.6
(H) Scheduled Caste Population (2001) 739762
1 Male 3,89,067
2 Female 3,50,695
3 SC Population as % to total population 37.69
4 %age Increase in Population 18.96
5 Hindu Population 1158868
6 Sikh 740841
7 Muslim 17308
8 Christian 22106
9 Others 23577
10 Population of Jalandhar City 714077
3 Agriculture (2003-2004)
(A) Area (000 Hect)  
1 Total area according to village paper 266
2 Area under Forest 4
3 Net sown 241
4 Net sown area as % to gross sown area 91.00
5 Area sown more than once 177
6 Total cropped area 418
7 Cropping Intensity) 178
(B) Area under High Yielding varieties of Crops
(2003-2004)
Area Hect. 000
1 Wheat 169
2 Rice 138
3 Maize 12
4 Bajra -
(C) Yield per Hect. ( Kg.) (2003-2004) (2003-2004)
1 Wheat 4420
2 Rice 3365
3 Maize 3418
4 Bajra -
5 Ground Nut -
6 Suger Cane 4579
7 Cotton (American) -
8 Cotton (Desi)_ -
(D) Production (000 M.T.) (2003-2004)
1 Wheat 747
2 Rice 465
3 Other Cearels 48
4 Total Cearels (1+2+3) 1250
5 Pulses 1.06
6 Total Cereals (4+5) 1251.06
7 Ground Nut  
8 Rapeseed and Mustard 2.00
9 Sun Flower 8.00
10 Other Edible Oils 0.8
11 Total Oils Seeds (7+8+9+10) 10.8
12 Cotton American (000 Bales) -
13 Cotton Desi (000 Bales) -
14 Suger Cane in terms of Gur. 69
15 Pottato 342.1
(E) No. of Tractor (Regd.) 30,351
(F) No. of Tharesher 11,256
(G) No. Harvest Combine 268
1 i) Self operated 183
2 ii) Tractor Operated 85
(H) Consumption of Chemical Fertilizer (NPK 000 Nutrients Tonnes) 98
4 Irrigation (2003-2004)
A Net Irrigated Area(000 Hect) 241
B Percentage of Net Irrigated area to net Area Sown 100
C Gross Irrigated area (000 Hect.) 417
D Percentage of gross irrigated area to gross cropped Area. 99.8
E No. of Tubewells- Energised  
1 Electric Operated 66,097
2 Diesel Operated 18,660
5 Electricity (2003-2004)
A Households using Electricity 3,92,180
     
B Consumption of Power (Million Kw.h) 1656.58
1 Agriculture 466.96
2 Industry 552.72
3 Others 857.82
D No. of Electric consumer  
1 Industry 10,928
2 Agriculture 66,097
6 Industry (2003-2004)
A Registered Working Factories 1761
B Average Number of workers employed 43,520
7 Co-operation (2003-2004)
1 No. of co-operative Societies 1711
A Agriculture 254
B Others 1457
2 Working Capital (Rs. In lakh) 6865
8 Medical & Health (2003-2004)
1 Hospitals 21
2 Primary Health Centre 27
3 Dispensaries 134
4 Hospitals/CHC/PHC 6
5 Ayurvedic Institutions 32
6 Unani Institutions 4
7 Homeopathic 9
8 Beds in Medical Institution 2223
9 Doctors 2217
10 Family Planning Centres 14
11 Scarcity villages where water supply schemes Commissioned 309
9 Livestock and Animal husbandry (1999-2000)
A Veterinary Hospitals 92
B Permanent outlaying Dispensaries and insemination units. 92
C Number of Livestock (000) (1997 Census) 511.3
D Poultry (000) 1034.9
10 Education (2003) Schoolwise
A) No. of education institutions  
1 University, 1
2 Arts, Science, Commerce Colleges 20
3 Teachers Training College(B.ed) 2
4 Technical Industrial Art Craft School & Polytechnic Institutions & Engineering College 14
5 High & Senior Secondary School 359
6 Middle School 177
7 Primary & Pre-Primary School 914
B) No. of Students (2003)  
1 Arts, Science, Commerce Colleges 17356
2 Teacher Training College 329
3 Technical Industrial Art Craft School & Polytechnic Institutions & Engineering Collgeg 3786
4 High & Senior Secondary School 1,90,243
5 Middle School 17,235
6 Primary & Pre-Primary School 1,09,014
C) No. of Teachers  
1 Arts, Science, Commerce Colleges 1088
2 Teacher Training College 34
3 Technical Industrial Art Craft School & Polytechnic Institutions & Engineering College 311
4 High & Senior Secondary School 5889
5 Middle School 900
6 Primary & Pre-Primary School 2649
11 Roads (2003-2004)
1 Black Top roads Length in (Kms.) 4840
2 Roads per 100 sq.Kms. of Area(Kms.) 184
3 Roads per lakh of Population(K.M) 234
4 Percentage of Villages linked with roads 100.00
5 Total number of registered Vehicles 2,19,414
12 Miscellaneous (2003)
1 Market Committees(No.) 11
2 Municipal Committees(No.) 10
3 Panchayats (No.) 886
4 Postal Facilities (2003-2004)
A Post Offices 365
B Telegraph Offices 24
C Telephone Exchanges 94
5 Number of Banks  
A State Bank of India 38
B State Bank of Patiala 22
C Punjab National Bank 63
D Co-operative Bank 85
E Other Commercial Bank 223
6 Number of Police Station & Police Posts 24
7 Number of Theaters 14
8 Number of Employment Exchange 3
9 Number of Telephone Connections 207338
10 Number of Govt. employs as on (2003) 29427
11 Number of Bio Gas Plants  
1 Community Gas Plants

3125

2 Individual Gas Plants
12 Nagar Sudhar Trust 1
13 Panchayat Ghar 182
14 Janj Ghar/Dharamshala (No.)  
1 Scheduled Caste

1434

2 Non-Scheduled Caste
15 Rest House 23
16 Municipal Corporation 1
17 Focal Points 38
18 Cold Store 135
19 Milk Plant 1
20 Important places of the district  
1 Gurdwara 6thGuru Basti Sheikh & Ram Sar(Kukkar pind)  
2 Gurdwaras of Kartarpur (Tham Sabhib & others)  
3 Gurdwara Mau Sahib(Nurmehal)  
4 T.V. Centre Jalandhar  
5 Devi Tlab Mandir  
6 Radio Station  
7 Baba Sodal mandir  
8 Masjid Imam Nasar  
9 Niku Park  
10 Wonder Land, Vill. Tajpur.  
11 Prithvi Planet-Bowling