Demography

Jalandhar, formerly known as Jullundur in British India, is a city in the Doaba region of the northwestern Indian state of Punjab. Jalandhar is the oldest inhabited major city in the Indian state of Punjab. In recent times the city has undergone rapid urbanisation and has developed into a highly industrialised centre of commerce.

As per Provisional population figures of 2011 Census.

Administrative Structure
Sr. No.	Administrative Structure	Number
1	Sub-division	5
2	Tehsil	5
3	Sub-Tehsil	7
4	Block	11
5	Town	12
6	Population of Inhabited Villages(Tehsil wise)(2001)
	i) Jalandhar-I	140
	ii) Jalandhar-II	251
	iii) Nakodar	147
	iv) Phillaur	238
	v) Shahkot	178
	Total	954
7	Number of Parliament Segment	1
8	Number of Vidhan Sabha Segment	9

Area & Population (2011)
Sr. No.	Area & Population (2011)	Number
1	Area (Sq. Km) (2011-2012)	2,632
2	Total Population	2193590
	i) Male	1,145,211
	ii) Female	1,048,379
	iii) Females per thousand Males	915
3	Rural Population	1,032,419
	i) Male	528,790
	ii) Female	503,629
	iii) Rural Population as % to Total Population	47.07
4	Urban Population	1,161,171
	i) Male	616,421
	ii) Female	544,750
	iii) Urban Population as % to Total Population	52.93
5	Density (Per Sq. Km)	836
6	Percentage Literacy	82.5
	i) Male	86.1
	ii) Female	78.5
	iii) Rural	78.5
	iv) Urban	86
7	Worker (No.) Census-2011
	i) Main worker	689592
	ii) Marginal worker	84880
	iii)worker as % to total population	31.4
8	Scheduled Caste Population (2011)	854444
	i) Male	442,124
	ii) Female	412,320
	iii) SC Population as % to total population	38.95
	iv) %age Increase in Population	18.96
	v) Hindu Population	1158868
	vi) Sikh	740841
	vii) Muslim	17308
	viii) Christian	22106
	ix) Others	23577
	x) Population of Jalandhar City	714077

Agriculture (2011-2012)
Sr. No.	Agriculture (2011-2012)	Number
1	Area (000 Hect)
	i) Total area according to village paper	266
	ii) Area under Forest	6
	iii) Net sown	236
	iv) Net sown area as % to gross sown area	89.00
	v) Area sown more than once	169
	vi) Total cropped area	405
	vii) Cropping Intensity)	178
2	Area under High Yielding varieties of Crops (2012-2013)	Area Hect. 000
	i) Wheat	169
	ii) Rice	165
	iii) Maize	8
	iv) Bajra	–
3	Yield per Hect. ( Kg.) (2012-2013)	(2011-2012)
	i) Wheat	4575
	ii) Rice	3790
	iii) Maize	3711
	iv) Bajra	–
	v) Ground Nut	–
	vi) Suger Cane	5372
	vii) Cotton (American)	–
	viii) Cotton (Desi)	–
4	Production (000 M.T.)	(2012-2013)
	i) Wheat	773
	ii) Rice	625
	iii) Other Cearels	0
	iv) Total Cearels (1+2+3)	1398
	v) Pulses	0.6
	vi) Total Cereals (4+5)	1398.06
	vii) Ground Nut
	viii) Rapeseed and Mustard	2.00
	ix) Sun Flower	5.7
	x) Other Edible Oils	1.5
	xi) Total Oils Seeds (7+8+9+10)	11.2
	xii) Cotton American (000 Bales)	–
	xiii)Cotton Desi (000 Bales)	–
	xiv) Suger Cane in terms of Gur.	54
	xv) Pottato	519.7
5	No. of Tractor (Regd.)	37,850
6	No. of Tharesher	9,895
7	No. Harvest Combine	328
	i) Self operated	234
	ii) Tractor Operated	94
8	Consumption of Chemical Fertilizer (NPK 000 Nutrients Tonnes)	126

Irrigation (2012-2013)
Sr. No.	Irrigation (2012-2013)	Number
1	i) Net Irrigated Area(000 Hect)	236
	ii) Percentage of Net Irrigated area to net Area Sown	100
	iii) Gross Irrigated area (000 Hect.)	405.6
	iv) Percentage of gross irrigated area to gross cropped Area.	100
2	No. of Tubewells- Energised
	i) Electric Operated	77,520
	ii) Diesel Operated	18,117

Electricity (2012-2013)
Sr. No.	Electricity (2012-2013)	Number
1	Households using Electricity	517,745
2	Consumption of Power (Million Kw.h)	2911.04
3	Agriculture	683.06
4	Industry	873.81
5	Others	1354.17
6	No. of Electric consumer
	i) Industry	11,535
	ii) Agriculture	77,520

Industry (2012-2013)
Sr. No.	Industry (2012-2013)	Number
1	Registered Working Factories	1918
2	Average Number of workers employed	57,319

Co-Operation (2012-2013)
Sr. No.	Co-Operation (2012-2013)	Number
1	No. of co-operative Societies	1720
	i) Agriculture	247
	ii) Others	1473
2	Working Capital (Rs. In lakh)	315753

Medical & Health (2012-2013)
Sr. No.	Medical & Health (2012-2013)	Number
1	Hospitals	21
2	Primary Health Centre	28
3	Dispensaries	124
4	Hospitals/CHC/PHC	6
5	Ayurvedic Institutions	32
6	Unani Institutions	4
7	Homeopathic	8
8	Beds in Medical Institution	1717
9	Doctors	2792
10	Family Planning Centres	14
11	Scarcity villages where water supply schemes Commissioned	837

Livestock And Animal Husbandry (1999-2000)
Sr. No.	Livestock And Animal Husbandry (1999-2000)	Number
1	Veterinary Hospitals	90
2	Permanent outlaying Dispensaries and insemination units.	87
3	Number of Livestock (000) (2007 Census)	388.3
4	Poultry (000)	2885.9

Education (2003)
Sr. No.	Education (2003)	Schoolwise
1	No. of education institutions
	i) University,	1
	ii) Arts, Science, Commerce Colleges	23
	iii) Teachers Training College(B.ed)	11
	iv) Technical Industrial Art Craft School & Polytechnic Institutions & Engineering College	32
	v) High & Senior Secondary School	746
	vi) Middle School	449
	vii) Primary & Pre-Primary School	1215
2	No. of Students (2003)
	i) Arts, Science, Commerce Colleges	19126
	ii) Teacher Training College	2074
	iii) Technical Industrial Art Craft School & Polytechnic Institutions & Engineering Collgeg	4137
	iv) High & Senior Secondary School	1,94,679
	v) Middle School	44,615
	vi) Primary & Pre-Primary School	95,342
3	No. of Teachers
	i) Arts, Science, Commerce Colleges	986
	ii) Teacher Training College	144
	iii) Technical Industrial Art Craft School & Polytechnic Institutions & Engineering College	481
	iv) High & Senior Secondary School	3743
	v) Middle School	790
	vi) Primary & Pre-Primary School	3028

Roads (2003-2004)
Sr. No.	Roads (2003-2004)	Number
1	Black Top roads Length in (Kms.)	5878
2	Roads per 100 sq.Kms. of Area(Kms.)	223
3	Roads per lakh of Population(K.M)	234
4	Percentage of Villages linked with roads	100.00
5	Total number of registered Vehicles	9,66,802

Miscellaneous (2003)
Sr. No.	Miscellaneous (2003)	Number
1	Market Committees(No.)	12
2	Municipal Committees(No.)	12
3	Panchayats (No.)	901
4	Postal Facilities	(2012-2013)
	i) Post Offices	201
	ii) Telegraph Offices	1
	iii) Telephone Exchanges	120
5	Number of Banks
	i) State Bank of India	64
	ii) State Bank of Patiala	36
	iii) Punjab National Bank	84
	iv) Co-operative Bank	72
	v) Other Commercial Bank	437
6	Number of Police Station & Police Posts	36
7	Number of Theaters	10
8	Number of Employment Exchange	3
9	Number of Telephone Connections	107146
10	Number of Govt. employs as on (2003)	26657
11	Number of Community and Individual Gas Plants	3125
12	Nagar Sudhar Trust	1
13	Panchayat Ghar	182
14	Janj Ghar/Dharamshala of Scheduled Caste and Non-Scheduled Caste	1434
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
	i) Gurdwara 6^thGuru Basti Sheikh & Ram Sar(Kukkar pind)
	ii) Gurdwaras of Kartarpur (Tham Sabhib & others)
	iii) Gurdwara Mau Sahib(Nurmehal)
	vi) T.V. Centre Jalandhar
	v) Devi Tlab Mandir
	vi) Radio Station	1
	vii) Baba Sodal mandir
	viii) Masjid Imam Nasar
	ix) Niku Park
	x) Wonder Land, Vill. Tajpur.
	xi) Prithvi Planet-Bowling