Rustam Tehsil is a tehsil located in Mardan District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. The town of Rustam is the capital of the tehsil.City/Tehsil Municipal Administrations According to the 2017 census the tehsil covering an area of 379sqkm had a population of 279,527 of which 140,896 were male and 138,629 female.TABLE 1 : AREA, POPULATION BY SEX, SEX RATIO, POPULATION DENSITY, URBAN POPULATION, HOUSEHOLD SIZE AND ANNUAL GROWTH RATE, CENSUS-2023, KHYBER PAKHTUNKHWA The area is part of the PK-55 Mardan-II constituency for the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly.
Demography According to the 2023 census the religious affiliation of Rustam Tehsil was as follows: 278,915 Muslim, 578 Christian, 2 Ahmadi Muslim, 2 Sikhs and 10 were listed as others.TABLE 9 : POPULATION BY SEX, RELIGION AND RURAL/URBAN, CENSUS - 2023
Religion Population Muslim 278,915 Christian 578 Ahmadi 2 Sikh 2 Others 10
The census also recorded the first language of the residents of the tehsil as follows, 102 Urdu, 55 Punjabi, 55 Sindhi, 277,471 Pushto, 225 Balochi, 1 Kashmiri, 1 Saraiki, 115 Hindko, 2 Kalasha, 32 Kohistani and 1,491 listed as others.TABLE 11 : POPULATION BY MOTHER TONGUE, SEX AND RURAL/URBAN, CENSUS-2023
Language Speakers Urdu 102 Punjabi 55 Sindhi 55 Pushto 277,471 Balochi 225 Kashmiri 1 Saraiki 1 Hindko 115 Kalasha 2 Kohistani 32 Others 1,491
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