Vadodara District
Climate
The Vadodara district has a dry climate and three distinct seasons, namely summer, winter and monsoon.
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Divisions
Vadodara is divided into 2 Prants:
Vadodara is divided into 8 talukas:
Demographics
Year | Pop. | ±% p.a. |
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1901 | 575,650 | — |
1911 | 679,540 | +1.67% |
1921 | 736,050 | +0.80% |
1931 | 856,580 | +1.53% |
1941 | 1,019,524 | +1.76% |
1951 | 1,181,782 | +1.49% |
1961 | 1,490,144 | +2.35% |
1971 | 1,936,523 | +2.65% |
1981 | 2,509,431 | +2.63% |
1991 | 3,038,127 | +1.93% |
2001 | 3,641,802 | +1.83% |
2011 | 4,165,626 | +1.35% |
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According to the 2011 census Vadodara district has a population of 4,165,626, The district has a population density of 551 inhabitants per square kilometre (1,430/sq mi) . Its population growth rate over the decade 2001-2011 was 14.16%. Vadodara has a sex ratio of 934 females for every 1000 males. It has a literacy rate of 81.21% in 2011, a ten percentage points increase in 10 years.
The divided district has a population of 3,093,795, of which 1,993,356 (64.43%) lived in urban areas. The divided district had a sex ratio of 923 females per 1000 males. Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes make up 196,350 (6.35%) and 293,039 (9.47%) of the population respectively.
Religion
Hindus were 3,640,856 (86.59%), while Muslims were 450,357 (11.12%), Jains 75,355 (1.75%) and Christians 23,229 (0.60%).
Language
At the time of the 2011 census, 81.97% of the population spoke Gujarati, 9.64% Hindi, 4.51% Marathi and 1.11% Sindhi as their first language.
Politics
District | No. | Constituency | Name | Party | Remarks | |
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Vadodara | 135 | Savli | Ketan Inamdar | Bharatiya Janata Party | ||
136 | Vaghodiya | Dharmendrasinh Vaghela | Independent | Resigned on 24 January 2024 | ||
Vacant | ||||||
Vadodara | 140 | Dabhoi | Shailesh Mehta | Bharatiya Janata Party | ||
141 | Vadodara City (SC) | Manisha Vakil | Bharatiya Janata Party | |||
142 | Sayajigunj | Keyur Rokadiya | Bharatiya Janata Party | |||
143 | Akota | Chaitanya Desai | Bharatiya Janata Party | |||
144 | Raopura | Balkrushna Shukla | Bharatiya Janata Party | |||
145 | Manjalpur | Yogesh Patel | Bharatiya Janata Party | |||
146 | Padra | Chaitanyasinh Zala | Bharatiya Janata Party | |||
147 | Karjan | Akshay Patel | Bharatiya Janata Party |
Ecology
The Wadhvana Wetland located near Dabhoi Taluka here is a wetland that was designated as a Ramsar wetland site on 2021.
Notable personalities
- Premanand Bhatt (1649–1714) Author. Born in Vadodara.
- Nayan Mongia- Cricketer
- Jacob Martin- Cricketer
- Irfan Pathan- Cricketer
- Yusuf Pathan- Cricketer
- Hardik Pandya - Cricketer
- Krunal Pandya - Cricketer
- Kiran More - Cricketer
- Anshul Trivedi- Actor
- Dharmesh Yelande - Choreographer and Actor
- Deepak Hooda - Cricketer
- Bhuvan Bam - Youtuber
- Vijay Hazare - Cricketer
- Anshuman Gaekwad - Cricketer
- Shrenu Parikh - Actor
- Manan Desai - comedian
- Mitra Gadhvi - Actor
- Chirayu Amin - Business person