Rural, mixed and urban districts
Each district is placed by the share of its people who lived in towns at the 2011 Census, the last count by district. A district is rural when fewer than 20 in every 100 lived in towns, mixed from 20 to 50, and urban above 50. Mixed districts are the ones with large towns and suburbs beside villages. The chart shows each kind of district's rate as a multiple of its own state's rate, so a dot at 1 means the same rate as the state and a dot at 2 means twice it.
Each kind of district's rate as a multiple of its state's rate
District by district
The same comparison for every district, set against the share of its people in towns. A dot above the line at 1 is a district that lost more names than its state as a whole.
Each district's rate as a multiple of its state's, against its urban share in 2011
Without the cities
The large cities lost the most names in most states, as the cities page shows. The question here is whether the order holds below them, from village districts to districts of small towns. The chart sets the rank correlation between urban share and the rate across every district against the same correlation with the urban districts left out. A value near zero means no relationship.
Rank correlation between urban share and the rate, with and without urban districts
The figures, state by state
How the districts were placed
Many of today's districts did not exist in 2011. Each one is counted under the 2011 district it was mostly made from, and districts made from the same 2011 district are added together, so the units here are the districts of 2011. Palghar, for example, is counted with Thane, and Telangana's 33 districts under the ten it had in 2011. The source for each one, a district website, a government order or the Census's own lists of tehsils, is in the file of parents linked below. The urban share is for the district as it was in 2011, and it will have changed since.
Each state is read in its own measure. In Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Gujarat, Karnataka, Telangana and Uttarakhand it is the names left off the draft per 100 on the roll before. Telangana's district figures are the state's as reported in the press. In Bihar it is both phases per 100 on the 2025 roll. West Bengal and Kerala published no removals below the state, so there it is the fall in the roll, which takes in ordinary deaths and moves too. Delhi is left out because it is a single, almost wholly urban unit. Rajasthan is left out because its district figure is a change over two years across a split of districts.
The tables behind this page download as CSV. The 2011 parent of every district, with its source, is here.