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Shimla AI Report

Date: May 17, 2025

Shimla, located in Himachal Pradesh, has 23% of the state's population.

Shimla is the 243^rd ranked city in population, out of 768 District Capitals (DHQs) of India. It is the capital of Shimla District in Himachal Pradesh State. Shimla District is 539^th highest ranked in population and 206^th ranked in area, in India.

Shimla is the 6^th highest ranked in Urban Internet Pop / State or UT Pop (%, TRAI September 2024) out of 768 city/districts of India. This indicates higher number of state urban internet users as reported in TRAI quarterly report vis a vis other state's urban internet users.

The average of Indian city (district capitals)/districts is 2. Shimla is the 11^th highest ranked city out of 768 city/districts.This indicates that the government has paid more attention to healthcare in this district compared to other districts.

The average of Indian city (district capitals)/districts is 745. Shimla is the 17^th highest ranked city out of 768 city/districts.This indicates that this district has more decentralized governance as compare to other districts.

Urban Internet Pop/City Pop (%, TRAI September 2024)

Urban Internet Pop/City Pop (%, TRAI September 2024)

No of Sub Divisional Hospital

No of Sub Divisional Hospital

Number of Panchayats (Number , Census 2011)

Number of Panchayats (Number , Census 2011)

Crime/1000 Pop (Ratio, NCRB 2022)

Crime/1000 Pop (Ratio, NCRB 2022)

Formal Jobs(Dist.),2023

Formal Jobs(Dist.),2023

Population (18-24) (Number, 2023)

Population (18-24) (Number, 2023)

English Speakers (Second Language + Third Language (No, Census 2011)

English Speakers (Second Language + Third Language (No, Census 2011)

The Average of Indian City (District Capitals)/Districts is 1. Shimla is the 147^th worst ranked City out of 768 City/Districts. This implies lesser effectiveness of law and order in this district compared to other districts.

Out of 768 District Capitals/Districts of India, Shimla is the 708^th worst ranked in . This implies low private sector growth.

Out of 768 District Capitals/Districts of India, Shimla is the 605^th worst ranked in . This indicates that this district has a lower birth rate and/or lower education center.

Shimla is the 590^th worst ranked in out of 768 city/districts of India. This indicates a lower pool of literate english population compared to other cities.

Shimla City/District Metrics

Culture

Nature

Internet

Shimla Nature Highlights

	Nature Metrics	% of India	Rank Out of 768	City / Districts Data
URANIUM (in tonnes)	URANIUM (in tonnes)	0.06%	17^th	2924
Ab. Prod (000' Tonnes) Onion Production	Ab. Prod (000' Tonnes) Onion Production	0.32%	69^th	9678
Ab. Prod (Mn Tonnes) Soyabean Production	Ab. Prod (Mn Tonnes) Soyabean Production	0.02%	94^th	5549

Shimla Culture Highlights

Sr.No	Culture Metrics	Counts	Name
Princely State	Princely State	1	Delath
Cantt	Cantt	1	Shimla

Airports

	Name	City	IATA Code	Distance
Airport Name	Shimla Airport	Jubberhatti	SLV	7 Km

Population: 169,578 | Population Rank: 243^rd

Area (KM²): 5,131 | Area Rank: 206^th

Better than India Average-

Sr.	Fields	India Average	Rank out of 768	City / District Data
1	No of Sub Divisional Hospital	2	11^th	2175
2	No of Total Hospitals	61	103^rd	7642
3	No of Primary Health Centers	48	131^st	6072
4	No of Community Health Centers	9	158^th	3941
5	No of District Hospital	1	162^nd	8140

Worse than India Average-

Sr.	Fields	India Average	Worst Rank out of 768	City / District Data
1	No of Doctors	1795	268^th	3054
2	No of Hospital Beds	1470	518^th	1755
3	No of Nurses	3392	530^th	3977

Population: 169,578 | Population Rank: 243^rd

Area (KM²): 5,131 | Area Rank: 206^th

Better than India Average-

Sr.	Fields	India Average	Rank out of 768	City / District Data
1	% of Household with Mobiles (%, Census 2011)	51	35^th	10628
2	Bank Credit - Bank Debit/No. of banks (Crore, RBI SCB 2024)	23	38^th	5891
3	GDP per Capita ('000', RBI SCB 2023)	118	39^th	11251
4	Bank Deposit-Bank Loans (Crores, RBI SCB 2024)	5533	49^th	4419
5	% of Households with Cars (%, Census 2011)	4	52^nd	2667
6	Bank Deposit/Household (Lakhs, RBI SCB 2024)	14	79^th	6043
7	No. of Banks/1000 Household (in 1000, RBI SCB 2024)	1	101^st	6904
8	Bank Deposits (Crore, RBI SCB Q3 2024)	28688	107^th	5545
9	GDP (Crores. RBI SCB 2023)	27789	110^th	5782
10	Number of Households with means of Transport as Car/ Jeep/Van (No, Census 2011)	15572	117^th	4005
11	Number of Households with rented houses (No, Census 2011)	37627	139^th	6000
12	Number of Banks (No, RBI SCB Q3 2024)	183	143^rd	8690

Worse than India Average-

Sr.	Fields	India Average	Worst Rank out of 768	City / District Data
1	House Ownership % of Households (%, Census 2011)	86	74^th	8913
2	Number of Households with means of Transport as Scooter/ Motorcycle/Moped (No, Census 2011)	69577	207^th	9961
3	Number of Households without TV, Internet, Radio, Computer, Mobile, Landline (No, Census 2011)	57099	222^nd	5414
4	Number of Households with Owned houses (No, Census 2011)	280805	299^th	3212
5	Number of Households with Mobile only (No, Census 2011)	174173	420^th	8854
6	Number of Households without Internet (No, Census 2011)	20983	454^th	10776
7	Number of Households with Television (No, Census 2011)	157504	517^th	9767
8	Bank Credit (Crore, RBI SCB Q3 2024)	23154	533^rd	8382
9	Number of Households with TV, Computer/Laptop, Telephone/mobile phone and Scooter/ Car (No, Census 2011)	15680	557^th	7393
10	Bank Loans/Household (Lakhs, RBI SCB 2024)	11	590^th	10628
11	Number of Households with Internet (No, Census 2011)	10634	615^th	4752

Population: 169,578 | Population Rank: 243^rd

Area (KM²): 5,131 | Area Rank: 206^th

Worse than India Average-

Sr.	Fields	India Average	Worst Rank out of 768	City / District Data
1	Population per sq. km. (Km, Census 2011)	1023	141^st	5571
2	Sex-Ratio (1000) (%, Census 2011)	949	197^th	2831
3	Decadal Growth Rate (2011) (%, Census 2011)	19	221^st	3591

Population: 169,578 | Population Rank: 243^rd

Area (KM²): 5,131 | Area Rank: 206^th

Better than India Average-

Sr.	Fields	India Average	Rank out of 768	City / District Data
1	# of Universities (No, AISHE 2021)	1	34^th	4046
2	# of Higher Education Enrolments % of Pop (No, UDISE 2023)	2	45^th	7769
3	Gross Enrolment Ratio (GER) in Higher Education (18-23 Years) (No, AISHE 2021)	29	55^th	7307
4	# of ITIS seats (No, AISHE 2021)	4319	68^th	3226
5	# of Ph.D Enrolments (No, AISHE 2021)	258	85^th	5771
6	# of UG Enrolments - Teaching (No, AISHE 2021)	1920	88^th	7759
7	# of Colleges (No, AISHE 2021)	57	105^th	7229
8	# of UG Enrolments - Law (No, AISHE 2021)	593	109^th	3255
9	# of Total Enrolments (No, AISHE 2021)	49523	114^th	6343
10	# of Bachelor's Enrolment (No, AISHE 2021)	44296	115^th	8307
11	# of Enrolment in Private and Government Colleges (No, AISHE 2021)	39460	127^th	8281
12	# of Master's Enrolment (No, AISHE 2021)	6788	130^th	2502
13	# of UG Enrolments - Engg (No, AISHE 2021)	3322	130^th	10929
14	# of PG Enrolments - Engg (No, AISHE 2021)	193	130^th	8347
15	# of UG Diploma Enrolments (No, AISHE 2021)	334	146^th	4222
16	# of Diploma (No, AISHE 2021)	3658	163^rd	8975
17	# of No. of Schools (No, UDISE 2023)	1915	273^rd	2425

Worse than India Average-

Sr.	Fields	India Average	Worst Rank out of 768	City / District Data
1	# of UG Enrolments - Arts (No, AISHE 2021)	11775	438^th	4238
2	# of PG Enrolments - Arts (No, AISHE 2021)	1484	438^th	2152
3	# of Population (0-18) (No, Census 2011)	136937	494^th	2632
4	# of UG Enrolments - Medical (No, AISHE 2021)	416	540^th	6659
5	# of UG Enrolments - Science (No, AISHE 2021)	6151	570^th	8413
6	# of PG Enrolments - Science (No, AISHE 2021)	1085	570^th	6770
7	# of UG Enrolments - Management (No, AISHE 2021)	759	587^th	6330
8	# of PG Enrolments - Management (No, AISHE 2021)	684	587^th	5382
9	Population (18-24) (Number, 2023)	208496	605^th	10299

Population: 169,578 | Population Rank: 243^rd

Area (KM²): 5,131 | Area Rank: 206^th

Better than India Average-

Sr.	Fields	India Average	Rank out of 768	City / District Data
1	Number of Panchayats (Number , Census 2011)	745	17^th	4530
2	Sanctioned Police Force Number (NO, IPC 2020)	1416	202^nd	8791
3	Crime/1000 Pop (Ratio, NCRB 2022)	1	147^th	9590
4	Murder/Lakh Pop (Ratio, NCRB 2022)	1	153^rd	3828

Worse than India Average-

Sr.	Fields	India Average	Worst Rank out of 768	City / District Data
1	Number of Police Stations (NO, IPC 2020)	22	344^th	3759
2	Number of Murders (NO, NCRB 2022)	24	359^th	2419
3	Number of Missing Persons (NO, NCRB 2022)	285	366^th	10884
4	Number of IPC Crimes (NO, NCRB 2022)	2654	398^th	9749
5	Number of Cyber Crimes (NO, NCRB 2022)	29	469^th	5888

Population: 169,578 | Population Rank: 243^rd

Area (KM²): 5,131 | Area Rank: 206^th

Better than India Average-

Sr.	Fields	India Average	Rank out of 768	City / District Data
1	Urban Internet Pop/City Pop (%, TRAI September 2024)	123	6^th	4490
2	Linkedin Audience Size(No, Linked in Jan, 2025)	132859	49^th	10478
3	Number of Internet Connections (No, TRAI 2024)	413842	99^th	2020

Worse than India Average-

Sr.	Fields	India Average	Worst Rank out of 768	City / District Data
1	City FB Users % of City Literate Population (%, FB 2025)	106	479^th	11169
2	Number of Facebook Users. (Estimated Maximum)(No,Feb. 2025)	171050	558^th	4182
3	English Speakers (Second Language + Third Language (No, Census 2011)	162759	590^th	8653

Population: 169,578 | Population Rank: 243^rd

Area (KM²): 5,131 | Area Rank: 206^th

Better than India Average-

Sr.	Fields	India Average	Rank out of 768	City / District Data
1	Gurumukhi Script (Punjabi)	10774	70^th	8041
2	Literacy (%, Census 2023)Estd	78	107^th	9150
3	Devnagri Script (Hindi)	137058	122^nd	7257
4	Script Pools # < 30, 000	1	243^rd	8321

Worse than India Average-

Sr.	Fields	India Average	Worst Rank out of 768	City / District Data
1	Perso-Arabic Script (Urdu)	33190	343^rd	2624
2	Telugu Script	39429	445^th	2988
3	Gujarati Script	25953	462^nd	8228
4	Marathi Script	27903	474^th	2181
5	Tamil Script	23886	504^th	10586
6	Kannada Script	23603	522^nd	8030
7	Bengali Script	13153	528^th	1327
8	Malayalam Script	6112	542^nd	5177
9	English Multilingual Population	50193	556^th	6841
10	DHQ Mother Tongue Population (No, Census 2011)	254303	557^th	2015
11	Assamese Script	3229	562^nd	6027
12	Odia Script	5442	592^nd	11000
13	Latin Script (English)	2647	607^th	9792

Population: 169,578 | Population Rank: 243^rd

Area (KM²): 5,131 | Area Rank: 206^th

Worse than India Average-

Sr.	Fields	India Average	Worst Rank out of 768	City / District Data
1	Total Annual Newspaper Circulation (No, RNI 2022)	656764	54^th	2339
2	Number of Dailies or Magazines (No, RNI 2022)	240	218^th	10005
3	Number of Theatres (No, BOC 2020)	22	383^rd	2909

Population: 169,578 | Population Rank: 243^rd

Area (KM²): 5,131 | Area Rank: 206^th

Better than India Average-

Sr.	Fields	India Average	Rank out of 768	City / District Data
1	# of Uninhabited Villages	64	6^th	1737
2	# of Inhabited Villages	777	17^th	3522
3	# of Households that use Electricity as fuel for Cooking	566	73^rd	7884
4	# of Households that use LPG/PNG as fuel for Cooking	96340	182^nd	6774
5	Number of towns (Number , Census 2011)	10	215^th	4382

Worse than India Average-

Sr.	Fields	India Average	Worst Rank out of 768	City / District Data
1	# of Households with Main source of Lighting as Solar Energy	1508	208^th	5721
2	# of Households with 1 married couple	228663	323^rd	5500
3	Number of households (Number , Census 2011)	326286	339^th	3020
4	Urban Population (Number , Census 2011)	531234	377^th	5211
5	# of Households with Location of drinking water source within premises	154278	437^th	3152
6	# of Households with Main source of Lighting as Electricity	222703	477^th	4364
7	Number of households having latrine facility within the premises	156908	495^th	9685
8	Urbanization (% , Census 2011)	26	499^th	5614

Population: 169,578 | Population Rank: 243^rd

Area (KM²): 5,131 | Area Rank: 206^th

Better than India Average-

Sr.	Fields	India Average	Rank out of 768	City / District Data
1	Central PSU Jobs(Formal),2023	1938	22^nd	5896
2	State Govt Jobs(Formal) DHQ,2023	14249	43^rd	5471
3	Formal Jobs(DHQ),2023	37084	60^th	10967

Worse than India Average-

Sr.	Fields	India Average	Worst Rank out of 768	City / District Data
1	Informal Jobs(DHQ),2023	56813	101^st	9368
2	Informal Jobs(Dist.),2023	626770	298^th	9323
3	# of Companies,2023	1876	565^th	6811
4	State Govt Jobs(Formal) Dist.,2023	23664	696^th	7398
5	Formal Jobs(Dist.),2023	25014	708^th	8249

languages
City (district capitals)/DHQ

1. Hindi : 148,114
2. English Multilingual Population : 27,038
3. Punjabi : 9,958

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

Basic Details

City (District Capitals)/DHQ Population :	:	169,578
City(District Capitals)/DHQ Population (Rank)	:	243^rd
District Area (km²)	:	5,131
District Area (Rank)	:	206^th
No.of Towns in District	:	11
No. of Villages in District	:	3,231

Q - Why is all Prarang India comparative analysis being done for 768 Districts & their respective D.H.Q. (District Head Quarter) towns?
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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