List of cities in Himachal Pradesh by population

This is a list of urban agglomerations/cities and towns as per 2011 census in the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh. Dharamshala , Solan,Palampur and Mandi became municipical corporation after 2011 census hence there area has been expanded resulting in change of population, which has been updated as recent one.

Rank	Name	Status	District	Population
				Census	Census	Census
				1991	2001	2011
1	Shimla	Municipal Corporation	Shimla	102,186	142,555	169,578
2	Dharamsala	Municipal Corporation	Kangra	17,493	19,124	53,543
3	Solan	Municipal Corporation	Solan	21,751	34,206	47,418
4	Mandi	Municipal Corporation	Mandi	23,202	26,873	41,348
5	Palampur	Municipal Corporation	Kangra	3,638+ outgrowth	4,006+ outgrowth	40,385
6	Baddi	Municipal Council	Solan		22,601	29,911
7	Nahan	Municipal Council	Sirmaur	21,878	26,053	28,899
8	Paonta Sahib	Municipal Council	Sirmaur	13,207	19,090	25,183
9	Sundarnagar	Municipal Council	Mandi	20,397	23,986	24,344
10	Chamba	Municipal Council	Chamba	17,194	20,327	19,933
11	Una	Municipal Council	Una	12,001	15,900	18,722
12	Kullu	Municipal Council	Kullu	14,569	18,306	18,536
13	Hamirpur	Municipal Council	Hamirpur	12,544	17,252	17,604
14	Bilaspur	Municipal Council	Bilaspur	10,609	13,058	13,654
15	Yol Cantonment	Cantonment (Board)	Kangra	9,310	10,775	12,028
16	Nalagarh	Municipal Council	Solan	7,448	9,443	10,708
17	Nurpur	Municipal Council	Kangra	7,961	9,066	9,807
18	Kangra	Municipal Council	Kangra	9,019	9,156	9,528
19	Santokhgarh	Nagar Panchayat	Una	6,848	8,308	9,363
20	Mehatpur Basdehra	Nagar Panchayat	Una	6,417	8,681	9,218
21	Shamshi	Census Town	Kullu	...	8,038	8,870
22	Parwanoo	Municipal Council	Solan	5,856	8,609	8,758
23	Manali	Municipal Council	Kullu	2,433	6,265	8,096
24	Tira Sujanpur	Municipal Council	Hamirpur	5,477	7,077	7,943
25	Ghumarwin	Municipal Council	Bilaspur	3,708	5,721	7,899
26	Dalhousie	Municipal Council	Chamba	6,855	7,425	7,051
27	Rohru	Municipal Council	Shimla	3,366	6,607	6,875
28	Nagrota Bagwan	Municipal Council	Kangra	4,503	5,657	5,900
29	Rampur	Municipal Council	Shimla	4,342	5,653	5,655
30	Kumarsain	Nagar Panchayat	Shimla	2,879	3,732	5,461
31	Jawalamukhi	Nagar Panchayat	Kangra	4,047	4,931	5,361
32	Jogindernagar	Municipal Council	Mandi	4,513	5,048	5,335
33	Dera Gopipur	Municipal Council	Kangra	3,378	4,336	4,816
34	Sarkaghat	Nagar Panchayat	Mandi	3,093	3,706	4,715
35	Jhakhri	Census Town	Shimla...	...	4,655
36	Indora	Census Town	Kangra	...	4,201	4,534
37	Bhuntar	Nagar Panchayat	Kullu	2,972	4,260	4,475
38	Nadaun	Nagar Panchayat	Hamirpur	3,379	4,405	4,430
39	Theog	Municipal Council	Shimla	2,757	3,754	4,353
40	Kasauli Cantonment	Cantonment (Board)	Solan	4,385	4,990	3,885
41	Gagret	Nagar Panchayat	Una	4,258	3,181	3,847
42	Chuari Khas	Nagar Panchayat	Chamba	2,107	3,016	3,770
43	Daulatpur	Nagar Panchayat	Una	2,748	3,354	3,763
44	Sabathu Cantonment	Cantonment (Board)	Solan	3,700	5,719	3,685
45	Dalhousie Cantonment	Cantonment (Board)	Chamba	1,744	1,964	3,549
47	Rajgarh	Nagar Panchayat	Sirmaur	1,780	2,527	3,083
48	Arki	Nagar Panchayat	Solan	1,976	2,877	3,040
49	Dagshai Cantonment	Cantonment (Board)	Solan	2,163	2,750	2,904
50	Seoni	Nagar Panchayat	Shimla	1,271	1,529	2,591
51	Talai	Nagar Panchayat	Bilaspur	1,550	2,011	2,372
52	Jutogh Cantonment	Cantonment (Board)	Shimla	5,827	2,420	2,062
53	Chaupal	Nagar Panchayat	Shimla	1,074	1,507	1,851
54	Rewalsar	Nagar Panchayat	Mandi	1,045	1,369	1,821
55	Bakloh Cantonment	Cantonment (Board)	Chamba	1,989	1,810	1,805
56	Jubbal	Nagar Panchayat	Shimla	1,379	1,346	1,640
57	Bhota	Nagar Panchayat	Hamirpur	1,286	1,472	1,453
58	Banjar	Nagar Panchayat	Kullu	1,037	1,262	1,414
59	Naina Devi	Municipal Council	Bilaspur	868	1,161	1,204
60	Kotkhai	Nagar Panchayat	Shimla	896	1,149	1,190
61	Narkanda	Nagar Panchayat	Shimla	687	713	901

Most of the cities and towns appear to have larger population than the above mentioned figures due to rapid outgrowth in the recent years. For example, Baddi has emerged as one of the largest cities considering rapid industrialisation and urbanisation in the past decade. While, its official figures state its population to be around 29,911 as per 2011; the actual urban agglomerations population is around 100,000 since official figure takes into account only the notified part of the city as urban population. Apparently, urban agglomerations have significantly more population than the official figure. This holds true for most of the cities and town listed here when population of suburbs of respective city or town is added.

Urban Agglomeration

In the census of India 2011, an Urban Agglomeration has been defined as follows:

"An urban agglomeration is a continuous urban spread constituting a town and its adjoining outgrowths (OGs), or two or more physically contiguous towns together with or without outgrowths of such towns. An Urban Agglomeration must consist of at least a statutory town and its total population (i.e. all the constituents put together) should not be less than 20,000 as per the 2001 Census. In varying local conditions, there were similar other combinations which have been treated as urban agglomerations satisfying the basic condition of contiguity."

Constituents of Urban Agglomerations in the Himachal Pradesh

The constituents of Urban Agglomerations in the Himachal Pradesh, with a population of 1 lakh or above, are noted below:

• Shimla UA includes Shimla (M Corp.).

Abbreviations: M Corp. = Municipal Corporation, M = Municipality, CT = Census Town, OG = Out Growth, NA = Notified Area, CB = Cantonment Board

Urban Agglomeration constituents

Urban Agglomerations constituents with a population above 100,000 as per 2011 census are shown in the table below.

Urban Agglomeration	Name of Constituent	District	Type*	Population 2011	Male	Female	Population below 5 yrs	Literacy Rate
Shimla	Shimla	Shimla	M Corp.	169,758	93,364	76,394	13,646	94.67