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Palghar AI Report

Date: July 1, 2025

Palghar District in Maharashtra, has 2.7% of the state's population. It produces 4.7% of the Maharashtra wheat, 9.5% of the state's cotton (2.6% of India's production), 3.1% of the state's sugarcane and 13% of the state's soybean. Some famous historical and cultural landmarks include and Arnala fort. The nearest airport is Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport in Mumbai, located 49 Km away.

Palghar is the 478^th ranked city in population, out of 768 District Capitals (DHQs) of India. It is the capital of Palghar District in Maharashtra State. Palghar District is 143^rd highest ranked in population and 189^th ranked in area, in India.

The average No. of Banks/1000 Household (in 1000, RBI SCB 2024) of Indian city (district capitals)/districts is 1. Palghar is the 34^th highest ranked city out of 768 city/districts.This indicates that banking infrastructure is stronger in this district compared to other districts.

Out of 768 District Capitals/Districts of India, Palghar is the 38^th highest ranked in No of Doctors . This implies that health infrastructure in this district is better than other districts.

Palghar is the 46^th highest ranked in Marathi Script out of 768 city/districts of India. This indicates a high pool of literate marathi population compared to other cities.

The average Number of Cyber Crimes (NO, NCRB 2022) of Indian city (district capitals)/districts is 29. Palghar is the 506^th highest ranked city out of 768 city/districts.This indicates a safer district as compared to other districts.

No. of Banks/1000 Household (in 1000, RBI SCB 2024)

No. of Banks/1000 Household (in 1000, RBI SCB 2024)

No of Doctors

No of Doctors

Marathi Script

Marathi Script

Number of Cyber Crimes (NO, NCRB 2022)

Number of Cyber Crimes (NO, NCRB 2022)

Number of Missing Persons (NO, NCRB 2022)

Number of Missing Persons (NO, NCRB 2022)

Formal Jobs(Dist.),2023

Formal Jobs(Dist.),2023

Bank Credit (Crore, RBI SCB Q3 2024)

Bank Credit (Crore, RBI SCB Q3 2024)

Number of Theatres (No, BOC 2020)

Number of Theatres (No, BOC 2020)

Out of 768 District Capitals/Districts of India, Palghar is the 114^th worst ranked in Number of Missing Persons (NO, NCRB 2022) . This implies lesser effectiveness of law and order in this district compared to other districts.

The Average Formal Jobs(Dist.),2023 of Indian City (District Capitals)/Districts is 25014. Palghar is the 669^th worst ranked City out of 768 City/Districts. This implies low private sector growth.

Out of 768 District Capitals/Districts of India, Palghar is the 652^nd worst ranked in Bank Credit (Crore, RBI SCB Q3 2024) . This indicates that financial activities in district is less compared to other districts.

Palghar is the 635^th worst ranked in Number of Theatres (No, BOC 2020) out of 768 city/districts of India. This implies that this district is less urbanised compared to other districts

Palghar City/District Metrics

Culture

Nature

Internet

Palghar Nature Highlights

	Nature Metrics	% of India	Rank Out of 768	City / Districts Data
Ab. Prod (Mn Bales)Cotton Production	Ab. Prod (Mn Bales)Cotton Production	2.56%	12^th	2188
Ab. Prod (Mn Tonnes) Soyabean Production	Ab. Prod (Mn Tonnes) Soyabean Production	0.68%	38^th	3333
Ab. Prod (Mn Tonnes) Sugarcane Production	Ab. Prod (Mn Tonnes) Sugarcane Production	0.65%	43^rd	5224
Ab. Prod (Lakh tonnes) Chickpea Production	Ab. Prod (Lakh tonnes) Chickpea Production	0.54%	48^th	5241
Number of Mule (20th Cattle Census)	Number of Mule (20th Cattle Census)	0.14%	82^nd	4862
Number of Total Poultry (20th Cattle Census)	Number of Total Poultry (20th Cattle Census)	0.28%	87^th	7908
Number of Camel (20th Cattle Census)	Number of Camel (20th Cattle Census)	0.00%	125^th	3563
Ab. Prod (Mn tonn) Wheat Production	Ab. Prod (Mn tonn) Wheat Production	0.09%	150^th	5547
Number of Pony (20th Cattle Census)	Number of Pony (20th Cattle Census)	0.03%	248^th	6584
Number of Horse (20th Cattle Census)	Number of Horse (20th Cattle Census)	0.09%	254^th	7446
Number of Cattle (20th Cattle Census)	Number of Cattle (20th Cattle Census)	0.15%	282^nd	6918
Ab. Prod (Mn Tonnes) Maize Production	Ab. Prod (Mn Tonnes) Maize Production	0.03%	308^th	9750
Number of Bufflo (20th Cattle Census)	Number of Bufflo (20th Cattle Census)	0.07%	315^th	3739
Number of Donkey (20th Cattle Census)	Number of Donkey (20th Cattle Census)	0.01%	318^th	8030
Number of Goat (20th Cattle Census)	Number of Goat (20th Cattle Census)	0.09%	341^st	10930
Number of Sheep (20th Cattle Census)	Number of Sheep (20th Cattle Census)	0.01%	375^th	2246
Number of Pig (20th Cattle Census)	Number of Pig (20th Cattle Census)	0.02%	433^rd	7851

Palghar Culture Highlights

Sr.No	Culture Metrics	Counts	Name
Famous Forts	Famous Forts	1	Arnala fort
Famous Jain Temples	Famous Jain Temples	1	Dahigaon

Airports

	Name	City	IATA Code	Distance
Airport Name	Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport	Mumbai	BOM	49 Km

Population: 68,930 | Population Rank: 478^th

Area (KM²): 5,344 | Area Rank: 189^th

Better than India Average-

Sr.	Fields	India Average	Rank out of 768	City / District Data
1	No of District Hospital	1	162^nd	11134
2	No of Hospital Beds	1470	138^th	2508
3	No of Doctors	1795	38^th	5320
4	No of Primary Health Centers	48	98^th	3188
5	No of Total Hospitals	61	107^th	2505
6	No of Sub Divisional Hospital	2	158^th	3185
7	No of Community Health Centers	9	142^nd	1901
8	No of Nurses	3392	178^th	1324

Population: 68,930 | Population Rank: 478^th

Area (KM²): 5,344 | Area Rank: 189^th

Better than India Average-

Sr.	Fields	India Average	Rank out of 768	City / District Data
1	% of Households with Cars (%, Census 2011)	4	147^th	5099
2	% of Household with Mobiles (%, Census 2011)	51	228^th	10013
3	Bank Deposits (Crore, RBI SCB Q3 2024)	28688	93^rd	6298
4	Bank Deposit-Bank Loans (Crores, RBI SCB 2024)	5533	73^rd	10799
5	Bank Credit - Bank Debit/No. of banks (Crore, RBI SCB 2024)	23	135^th	1154
6	Bank Loans/Household (Lakhs, RBI SCB 2024)	11	74^th	6227
7	No. of Banks/1000 Household (in 1000, RBI SCB 2024)	1	34^th	2953
8	Bank Deposit/Household (Lakhs, RBI SCB 2024)	14	48^th	10359
9	Number of Households with Internet (No, Census 2011)	10634	116^th	1589
10	Number of Banks (No, RBI SCB Q3 2024)	183	105^th	7364

Worse than India Average-

Sr.	Fields	India Average	Worst Rank out of 768	City / District Data
1	House Ownership % of Households (%, Census 2011)	86	93^rd	10641
2	Number of Households with Owned houses (No, Census 2011)	280805	248^th	5163
3	Number of Households without TV, Internet, Radio, Computer, Mobile, Landline (No, Census 2011)	57099	260^th	4598
4	Number of Households with Mobile only (No, Census 2011)	174173	324^th	9224
5	Number of Households with means of Transport as Scooter/ Motorcycle/Moped (No, Census 2011)	69577	334^th	5843
6	Number of Households with Television (No, Census 2011)	157504	432^nd	6082
7	Number of Households without Internet (No, Census 2011)	20983	458^th	5802
8	Number of Households with means of Transport as Car/ Jeep/Van (No, Census 2011)	15572	467^th	3159
9	GDP per Capita ('000', RBI SCB 2023)	118	478^th	3830
10	Number of Households with rented houses (No, Census 2011)	37627	584^th	2911
11	Number of Households with TV, Computer/Laptop, Telephone/mobile phone and Scooter/ Car (No, Census 2011)	15680	585^th	8604
12	GDP (Crores. RBI SCB 2023)	27789	601^st	7852
13	Bank Credit (Crore, RBI SCB Q3 2024)	23154	652^nd	2915

Population: 68,930 | Population Rank: 478^th

Area (KM²): 5,344 | Area Rank: 189^th

Better than India Average-

Sr.	Fields	India Average	Rank out of 768	City / District Data
1	Sex-Ratio (1000) (%, Census 2011)	949	318^th	2367

Worse than India Average-

Sr.	Fields	India Average	Worst Rank out of 768	City / District Data
1	Decadal Growth Rate (2011) (%, Census 2011)	19	53^rd	2072
2	Population per sq. km. (Km, Census 2011)	1023	488^th	6076

Population: 68,930 | Population Rank: 478^th

Area (KM²): 5,344 | Area Rank: 189^th

Better than India Average-

Sr.	Fields	India Average	Rank out of 768	City / District Data
1	Gross Enrolment Ratio (GER) in Higher Education (18-23 Years) (No, AISHE 2021)	29	219^th	9371
2	# of No. of Schools (No, UDISE 2023)	1915	158^th	6701

Worse than India Average-

Sr.	Fields	India Average	Worst Rank out of 768	City / District Data
1	# of Higher Education Enrolments % of Pop (No, UDISE 2023)	2	36^th	8651
2	# of UG Enrolments - Teaching (No, AISHE 2021)	1920	175^th	8311
3	Population (18-24) (Number, 2023)	208496	249^th	5598
4	# of Ph.D Enrolments (No, AISHE 2021)	258	253^rd	9890
5	# of Bachelor's Enrolment (No, AISHE 2021)	44296	262^nd	6717
6	# of ITIS seats (No, AISHE 2021)	4319	266^th	9123
7	# of Total Enrolments (No, AISHE 2021)	49523	268^th	6429
8	# of Enrolment in Private and Government Colleges (No, AISHE 2021)	39460	268^th	4341
9	# of Colleges (No, AISHE 2021)	57	272^nd	2876
10	# of Population (0-18) (No, Census 2011)	136937	279^th	9954
11	# of Master's Enrolment (No, AISHE 2021)	6788	281^st	9362
12	# of Diploma (No, AISHE 2021)	3658	308^th	9141
13	# of UG Diploma Enrolments (No, AISHE 2021)	334	326^th	7869
14	# of UG Enrolments - Law (No, AISHE 2021)	593	328^th	10674
15	# of PG Enrolments - Engg (No, AISHE 2021)	193	331^st	7809
16	# of UG Enrolments - Engg (No, AISHE 2021)	3322	332^nd	3805
17	# of PG Enrolments - Management (No, AISHE 2021)	684	339^th	9577
18	# of UG Enrolments - Management (No, AISHE 2021)	759	339^th	7254
19	# of UG Enrolments - Medical (No, AISHE 2021)	416	359^th	1467
20	# of UG Enrolments - Arts (No, AISHE 2021)	11775	379^th	7194
21	# of PG Enrolments - Arts (No, AISHE 2021)	1484	379^th	3114
22	# of UG Enrolments - Science (No, AISHE 2021)	6151	471^st	3711
23	# of PG Enrolments - Science (No, AISHE 2021)	1085	471^st	7320
24	# of UG Enrolments - Commerce (No, AISHE 2021)	5042	586^th	4153
25	# of PG Enrolments - Commerce (No, AISHE 2021)	442	586^th	9200

Population: 68,930 | Population Rank: 478^th

Area (KM²): 5,344 | Area Rank: 189^th

Better than India Average-

Sr.	Fields	India Average	Rank out of 768	City / District Data
1	Number of Police Stations (NO, IPC 2020)	22	186^th	6146
2	Number of Missing Persons (NO, NCRB 2022)	285	114^th	2378
3	Number of IPC Crimes (NO, NCRB 2022)	2654	259^th	6635
4	Number of Murders (NO, NCRB 2022)	24	270^th	3584
5	Crime/1000 Pop (Ratio, NCRB 2022)	1	321^st	4046
6	Murder/Lakh Pop (Ratio, NCRB 2022)	1	362^nd	7036

Worse than India Average-

Sr.	Fields	India Average	Worst Rank out of 768	City / District Data
1	Number of Panchayats (Number , Census 2011)	745	237^th	6539
2	Number of Cyber Crimes (NO, NCRB 2022)	29	506^th	3444

Population: 68,930 | Population Rank: 478^th

Area (KM²): 5,344 | Area Rank: 189^th

Better than India Average-

Sr.	Fields	India Average	Rank out of 768	City / District Data
1	City FB Users % of City Literate Population (%, FB 2025)	106	93^rd	3645
2	Urban Internet Pop/City Pop (%, TRAI December 2024)	122	146^th	1321

Worse than India Average-

Sr.	Fields	India Average	Worst Rank out of 768	City / District Data
1	Number of Internet Connections (No, TRAI 2024)	411790	338^th	5181
2	English Speakers (Second Language + Third Language (No, Census 2011)	162759	385^th	10599
3	Number of Facebook Users. (Estimated Maximum)(No, May 2025)	172612	535^th	3333
4	Linkedin Audience Size(No, Linked in May, 2025)	135164	629^th	9463

Population: 68,930 | Population Rank: 478^th

Area (KM²): 5,344 | Area Rank: 189^th

Better than India Average-

Sr.	Fields	India Average	Rank out of 768	City / District Data
1	Script Pools # < 30, 000	1	243^rd	2557
2	Marathi Script	27903	46^th	6987

Worse than India Average-

Sr.	Fields	India Average	Worst Rank out of 768	City / District Data
1	Literacy (%, Census 2023)Estd	78	181^st	4763
2	DHQ Mother Tongue Population (No, Census 2011)	254303	220^th	4221
3	Perso-Arabic Script (Urdu)	33190	419^th	3272
4	English Multilingual Population	50193	433^rd	8673
5	Devnagri Script (Hindi)	137058	435^th	3331
6	Gurumukhi Script (Punjabi)	10774	478^th	2062
7	Assamese Script	3229	484^th	7906
8	Bengali Script	13153	495^th	7469
9	Telugu Script	39429	513^th	2388
10	Latin Script (English)	2647	544^th	6251
11	Tamil Script	23886	604^th	6034
12	Odia Script	5442	607^th	4212
13	Malayalam Script	6112	619^th	2792
14	Kannada Script	23603	686^th	7138
15	Gujarati Script	25953	705^th	9117

Population: 68,930 | Population Rank: 478^th

Area (KM²): 5,344 | Area Rank: 189^th

Better than India Average-

Sr.	Fields	India Average	Rank out of 768	City / District Data
1	Total Annual Newspaper Circulation (No, RNI 2022)	656764	77^th	4299
2	Number of Dailies or Magazines (No, RNI 2022)	240	49^th	5033

Worse than India Average-

Sr.	Fields	India Average	Worst Rank out of 768	City / District Data
1	Number of Theatres (No, BOC 2020)	22	635^th	6474

Population: 68,930 | Population Rank: 478^th

Area (KM²): 5,344 | Area Rank: 189^th

Better than India Average-

Sr.	Fields	India Average	Rank out of 768	City / District Data
1	Number of towns (Number , Census 2011)	10	190^th	10882

Worse than India Average-

Sr.	Fields	India Average	Worst Rank out of 768	City / District Data
1	Urbanization (% , Census 2011)	26	182^nd	8171
2	# of Households with Main source of Lighting as Solar Energy	1508	182^nd	2275
3	# of Uninhabited Villages	64	190^th	4655
4	# of Inhabited Villages	777	236^th	2832
5	Number of households (Number , Census 2011)	326286	276^th	5892
6	# of Households with 1 married couple	228663	280^th	9321
7	# of Households with Main source of Lighting as Electricity	222703	394^th	5303
8	Urban Population (Number , Census 2011)	531234	400^th	3165
9	# of Households with Location of drinking water source within premises	154278	412^th	5017
10	Number of households having latrine facility within the premises	156908	419^th	9545
11	# of Households that use LPG/PNG as fuel for Cooking	96340	552^nd	3013

Population: 68,930 | Population Rank: 478^th

Area (KM²): 5,344 | Area Rank: 189^th

Better than India Average-

Sr.	Fields	India Average	Rank out of 768	City / District Data
1	Informal Jobs(Dist.),2023	626770	62^nd	6921

Worse than India Average-

Sr.	Fields	India Average	Worst Rank out of 768	City / District Data
1	State Govt Jobs(Formal) DHQ,2023	14249	284^th	7443
2	Formal Jobs(DHQ),2023	37084	292^nd	4729
3	Informal Jobs(DHQ),2023	56813	398^th	7806
4	# of Companies,2023	1876	486^th	2240
5	State Govt Jobs(Formal) Dist.,2023	23664	658^th	7596
6	Formal Jobs(Dist.),2023	25014	669^th	4439

languages
City (district capitals)/DHQ

1. Marathi : 32,346
2. Hindi : 23,293
3. English Multilingual Population : 14,708

Number Of Languages spoken by more then 30K Population : 1

Basic Details

City (District Capitals)/DHQ Population :	:	68,930
City(District Capitals)/DHQ Population (Rank)	:	478^th
District Area (km²)	:	5,344
District Area (Rank)	:	189^th
No.of Towns in District	:	12
No. of Villages in District	:	203

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A - The Indian geography has historically been measured by " Districts". Today, it is politically managed by States & U.T.s ( Union Territories) but the unit of measurement ( Census baseline) continues to focus on the District, for over 150 years now. " All India" thus is a sum of the district parts i.e. sum of 768 districts currently ( which were 640 districts only, when the last Census took place in 2011). Contrary to popular perception, most data being reported at a State & U.T. level, is not being aggregated from underlying data at an urban (towns) & rural(villages) level. India has approx. 9000 towns & 600000 villages, segregated into 768 districts, each with its respective DHQ (District Head Quarter) town. Except for the largest 20 towns ( Metropolitan agglomerations) where some detailed data is gathered by the Central Government census, only basic demographic details are available for India's cities. Detailed survey results of the District are the most important data points, used to model & estimate the City & State level information in India. The 768 DHQ ( District Head Quarter) towns & 8 Union Territories, are the important Urban metrics available in India, for comparative analysis. Big data of a big & diverse country.

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