Demographics
| Population growth | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Census | Pop. | %± | |
| 1901 | 36,837 |
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| 1911 | 34,902 | -5.3% | |
| 1921 | 36,876 | 5.7% | |
| 1931 | 36,870 | -0.0% | |
| 1941 | 50,924 | 38.1% | |
| 1951 | 66,636 | 30.9% | |
| 1961 | 97,701 | 46.6% | |
| 1971 | 165,253 | 69.1% | |
| 1981 | 301,000 | 82.1% | |
| 1991 | 592,000 | 96.7% | |
| 2001 | 902,179 | 52.4% | |
| 2011 | 1,171,330 | Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ",".Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ",".Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ",".Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ",".Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ",".Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ",".Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ",".Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ",".Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ",".Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ",".Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ",".Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ",".Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ",".% | |
| Source:Census of India | |||
Hinduism, Islam, Sikhism and Jainism are four major religions in Aurangabad with 59.1%, 38.0%, 1.0% and 1.4% of the population following them. And others are 1.5% 52.5% of Aurangabad's population is in the 15–59 years age category. Around 11% of the population is under 6 years of age.
| Religions in Aurangabad | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Religion | Percent | |||
| Hindus | 50.0% | |||
| Muslims | 39.0% | |||
| Buddhist | 8.0% | |||
| Jains | 1.0% | |||
| Christian | 1.1%% | |||
| Others† | 0.9% | |||
| Distribution of religions † |
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The city, including the cantonment area, had a population of 1,171,330 in 2011, of whom Hindus were 50.1 per cent, Muslims were 39.2 percent,Buddhist were 8% Christians were 1.1 percent, Parsis were 0.1 percent, and others were 0.5 percent. Marathi and Urdu are the principal languages of the city. According to 2011 census, the percentage of residents speaking Marathi were 43.60 percent and residents speaking Urdu were 36.69 percent. Hindi speakers were third with 11.99 percent.and remaining speak other languages.
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