| --- |
| license: cc-by-4.0 |
| language: |
| - en |
| tags: |
| - india |
| - census |
| - demographics |
| - districts |
| - population |
| - literacy |
| pretty_name: India Census 2011 - District Level |
| size_categories: |
| - n<1K |
| --- |
| |
| # India Census 2011 — District Level |
|
|
| Clean, versioned district-level data from India's 2011 Census. |
| 640 districts. 29 columns. Zero missing values. Ready for pandas. |
|
|
| ## Quick Start |
|
|
| ```python |
| import pandas as pd |
| from huggingface_hub import hf_hub_download |
| |
| path = hf_hub_download( |
| repo_id="indiaset/census-2011", |
| filename="census_2011_districts_final.parquet", |
| repo_type="dataset" |
| ) |
| df = pd.read_parquet(path) |
| print(df.shape) # (640, 29) |
| ``` |
|
|
| ## What's In This Dataset |
|
|
| One row per district. All 640 districts of India as they existed |
| on Census night — midnight of February 28, 2011. |
|
|
| | Column | Description | |
| |--------|-------------| |
| | state_code | Census 2011 state code | |
| | state_name | Official state/UT name | |
| | district_code | Census 2011 district code | |
| | district_name | District name as per Census | |
| | lgd_code | LGD permanent district code | |
| | district_name_lgd | District name as per LGD | |
| | pop_total | Total population | |
| | pop_male | Male population | |
| | pop_female | Female population | |
| | pop_under6_total | Children under 6 years | |
| | pop_sc | Scheduled Caste population | |
| | pop_st | Scheduled Tribe population | |
| | literate_total | Literate persons | |
| | literate_male | Literate males | |
| | literate_female | Literate females | |
| | illiterate_total | Illiterate persons | |
| | workers_total | Total workers | |
| | workers_male | Male workers | |
| | workers_female | Female workers | |
| | non_workers_total | Non workers | |
| | literacy_rate | Literate / Total × 100 | |
| | sex_ratio | Females per 1000 males | |
| | workforce_participation | Workers / Total × 100 | |
|
|
| ## Validation |
|
|
| District populations sum to exactly **1,210,854,977** — |
| the official Census 2011 total for India. Zero discrepancy. |
|
|
| ## Key Insights |
|
|
| - Most literate district: Pathanamthitta, Kerala — 88.74% |
| - Least literate district: Alirajpur, Madhya Pradesh — 28.77% |
| - Literacy gap across India: 60 percentage points |
| - National sex ratio: 943 females per 1000 males |
|
|
| ## Known Limitations |
|
|
| ⚠️ This data reflects 2011 boundaries. Key things to know: |
|
|
| - **Telangana does not exist** — it was carved out of Andhra |
| Pradesh in 2014. All Telangana districts appear under |
| Andhra Pradesh here. |
| - **New districts created after 2011 are not present** — |
| India had 640 districts in 2011, now has 800+. |
| - **Population figures are from 2011** — use for structural |
| comparisons, not current headcounts. |
| - **Yanam and Mahe** (Puducherry enclaves) LGD codes were |
| manually verified and patched — not in the LGD export. |
|
|
| ## Source & License |
|
|
| - **Maintainer:** Ansuman Jaiswal (github.com/iam-ansuman) |
| - **Source:** Office of the Registrar General & Census |
| Commissioner, India (censusindia.gov.in) |
| - **LGD Codes:** Ministry of Panchayati Raj, Government of |
| India (lgdirectory.gov.in) |
| - **Original license:** GODL-India |
| - **This dataset:** CC-BY-4.0 |
|
|
| If you use this dataset, please cite: |
|
|
| Jaiswal, Ansuman. (2026). India Census 2011 - District Level |
| [Dataset]. indiaset. Hugging Face. |
| https://huggingface.co/datasets/indiaset/census-2011 |
|
|
| ## Cleaning Pipeline |
|
|
| Full reproducible pipeline available at: |
| github.com/indiaset/census-2011-pipeline |
