Country: India
Province / State: Maharashtra
District: Mumbai City

Major People Groups

224

Major Unreached People Groups

211

Total Population

3,579,000

Buddhist

3.8 %

Christian

2.5 %

Hindu

63.1 %

Muslim

23.0 %

Sikh

0.4 %

Other Religions

7.2 %
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Photo People Group Population Primary Language Progress
Scale
Hindu Muslim Buddhist Christian Sikh Other
 Adi Dravida 9,400 Tamil Progress Gauge 9,400 - - - - -
Agamudaiyan Mukkulattar 200 Tamil Progress Gauge 200 - - - - -
 Agri 31,000 Marathi Progress Gauge 31,000 - 300 - - -
Anglo 1,800 English Progress Gauge - - - 1,800 - -
 Ansari 90,000 Urdu Progress Gauge - 90,000 - - - -
 Arab 100 Arabic, Mesopotamian Progress Gauge - 100 - - - -
Atari 60 Urdu Progress Gauge - 60 - - - -
 Badhai (Hindu traditions) 13,000 Hindi Progress Gauge 12,000 - 200 - - -
Badhai Kharadi 1,500 Gujarati Progress Gauge 1,500 - - - - -
 Badhi (Hindu traditions) 900 Hindi Progress Gauge 900 - - - - -
 Baha'i 1,300 Hindi Progress Gauge - - - - - 1,300
 Bairagi (Hindu traditions) 4,100 Bengali Progress Gauge 4,100 - - - - -
Bajgar 100 Hindi Progress Gauge 100 - - - - -
Bajikar (Muslim traditions) 60 Bengali Progress Gauge - 60 - - - -
Bakad 100 Hindi Progress Gauge 100 - - - - -
 Bania Agarwal 18,000 Hindi Progress Gauge 8,600 - - - - 9,900
 Bania Chetti 15,000 Tamil Progress Gauge 12,000 - - - - 3,000
Bania Gujar 18,000 Gujarati Progress Gauge 18,000 - - - - -
 Bania Jaiswal 2,900 Hindi Progress Gauge 800 - - - - 2,100
 Bania Komti 3,500 Telugu Progress Gauge 3,200 - - - - 400
 Bania Lad 4,100 Gujarati Progress Gauge 4,100 - - - - -
Bania Mahajan 2,200 Hindi Progress Gauge 1,900 - - - - 400
 Bania Mahesri 1,300 Hindi Progress Gauge 1,300 - - - - -
 Bania Mahur 5,100 Hindi Progress Gauge 2,300 - - - - 2,800
 Bania Nima 5,800 Hindi Progress Gauge 2,200 - - - - 3,600
 Bania Oswal 13,000 Hindi Progress Gauge 4,200 - - - - 9,000
 Bania Porwal 7,500 Hindi Progress Gauge 2,400 - - - - 5,000
Bania Saitwal 3,900 Hindi Progress Gauge 1,300 - - - - 2,600
 Bania Srimali 7,600 Gujarati Progress Gauge 2,400 - - - - 5,100
Bania Ummad 5,900 Hindi Progress Gauge 1,800 - - - - 4,200
 Bania unspecified 252,000 Hindi Progress Gauge 145,000 - - - - 107,000
 Banjara (Hindu traditions) 11,000 Lambadi Progress Gauge 11,000 - 300 - - -
Barda 100 Marathi Progress Gauge 100 - - - - -
 Baria (Hindu traditions) 5,500 Gujarati Progress Gauge 5,500 - - - - -
Barutgar 60 Urdu Progress Gauge - 60 - - - -
 Basor 1,100 Hindi Progress Gauge 1,100 - 40 - - -
 Bazigar (Hindu traditions) 1,100 Punjabi, Eastern Progress Gauge 1,100 - - - - -
 Bengali Muslim Moghal 18,000 Urdu Progress Gauge - 18,000 - - - -
 Bhampta 600 Marathi Progress Gauge 600 - - - - -
Bhansala 3,400 Marathi Progress Gauge 3,400 - - - - -
 Bhat (Hindu traditions) 1,800 Hindi Progress Gauge 1,800 - - - - -
 Bhil unspecified 1,000 Gujarati Progress Gauge 900 70 - - - -
 Bhoi (Hindu traditions) 3,100 Hindi Progress Gauge 3,100 - - - - -
 Bohra 61,000 Gujarati Progress Gauge - 61,000 - - - -
 Boya 1,600 Telugu Progress Gauge 1,600 - - - - -
Brahmin Anavada 900 Gujarati Progress Gauge 900 - - - - -
Brahmin Anavala 1,500 Gujarati Progress Gauge 1,500 - - - - -
 Brahmin Chitpavan 13,000 Marathi Progress Gauge 13,000 - - - - -
 Brahmin Christian 100 Tamil Progress Gauge - - - 100 - -
 Brahmin Deshastha 8,900 Marathi Progress Gauge 8,900 - - - - -
 Brahmin Gaud Saraswat 16,000 Marathi Progress Gauge 16,000 - - - - -
 Brahmin Gaur 9,000 Hindi Progress Gauge 9,000 - - - - -
Brahmin Gujar Gaur 1,300 Hindi Progress Gauge 1,300 - - - - -
 Brahmin Gujarati 15,000 Gujarati Progress Gauge 15,000 - - - - -
 Brahmin Kanaujia 12,000 Hindi Progress Gauge 12,000 - - - - -
 Brahmin Kannada 1,700 Kannada Progress Gauge 1,700 - - - - -
Brahmin Karbadu 4,300 Marathi Progress Gauge 4,300 - - - - -
 Brahmin Kashmiri Pandit 3,900 Kashmiri Progress Gauge 3,900 - - - - -
Brahmin Mahratta 5,600 Marathi Progress Gauge 5,600 - - - - -
Brahmin Nagar 1,600 Gujarati Progress Gauge 1,600 - - - - -
 Brahmin Sanadhya 8,700 Hindi Progress Gauge 8,700 - - - - -
 Brahmin Saraswat 13,000 Hindi Progress Gauge 13,000 - - - - -
 Brahmin Sawaria 17,000 Hindi Progress Gauge 17,000 - - - - -
 Brahmin Tamil 2,100 Tamil Progress Gauge 2,100 - - - - -
 Brahmin Telugu 1,400 Telugu Progress Gauge 1,400 - - - - -
 Brahmin unspecified 276,000 Hindi Progress Gauge 250,000 - - - - 26,000
 Burmese 600 Burmese Progress Gauge - - 600 - - -
Byari (Beary) 10,000 Konkani Progress Gauge - 10,000 - - - -
 Chamar (Hindu traditions) 63,000 Hindi Progress Gauge 55,000 - 5,800 2,200 - -
 Chhipa (Hindu traditions) 1,200 Hindi Progress Gauge 900 - 100 - - 200
 Christian 6,700 Hindi Progress Gauge - - - 6,700 - -
 Darzi (Hindu traditions) 27,000 Hindi Progress Gauge 25,000 - 400 - - 1,300
 Darzi Namdev (Hindu traditions) 2,400 Telugu Progress Gauge 2,400 - - - - -
 Devanga 4,300 Kannada Progress Gauge 4,200 - 100 - - -
 Devipujak Vaghri (Hindu traditions) 1,100 Gujarati Progress Gauge 1,100 - - - - -
 Dhangar Bharwad 3,200 Gujarati Progress Gauge 3,100 - 40 - - 20
 Dhobi (Muslim traditions) 2,200 Urdu Progress Gauge - 2,200 - - - -
 Dhobi Parit 5,300 Marathi Progress Gauge 5,300 - - - - -
 Dhor 13,000 Marathi Progress Gauge 13,000 - 100 - - -
 Divehi 100 Maldivian Progress Gauge - 100 - - - -
Gandharb (Muslim traditions) 60 Gujarati Progress Gauge - 60 - - - -
 Gangakula 1,600 Kannada Progress Gauge 1,600 - - - - -
 Goanese 18,000 Konkani, Goan Progress Gauge - - - 18,000 - -
 Gond unspecified 2,400 Hindi Progress Gauge 2,000 400 30 - - -
 Gondhali 3,200 Marathi Progress Gauge 3,100 - 100 - - -
 Gosain unspecified 11,000 Hindi Progress Gauge 11,000 - 600 - - -
 Hajam 1,500 Urdu Progress Gauge - 1,500 - - - -
 Han Chinese, Mandarin 1,900 Chinese, Mandarin Progress Gauge - - 1,700 - - 200
 Hijda 28,000 Hindi Progress Gauge 26,000 2,000 - - - -
Idayan 700 Tamil Progress Gauge 700 - - - - -
 Ilavan 6,200 Malayalam Progress Gauge 6,200 - - - - -
 Jat (Hindu traditions) 9,400 Hindi Progress Gauge 8,700 - - - - 700
 Jat (Muslim traditions) 1,100 Urdu Progress Gauge - 1,100 - - - -
 Jat (Sikh traditions) 3,700 Punjabi, Eastern Progress Gauge - - - - 3,700 -
Javeri 40 Hindi Progress Gauge 40 - - - - -
 Jewish, South Asian 2,000 Marathi Progress Gauge - - - - - 2,000
 Kachhia (Hindu traditions) 3,000 Gujarati Progress Gauge 3,000 - - - - -
 Kadia (Hindu traditions) 3,400 Kannada Progress Gauge 3,200 - 100 - - -
Kaghzi 30 Urdu Progress Gauge - 30 - - - -
 Kalal (Hindu traditions) 3,400 Telugu Progress Gauge 3,000 - 200 - - 200
 Kalal Idiga 1,800 Telugu Progress Gauge 1,500 - 100 - - 100
Kamathi 36,000 Telugu Progress Gauge 35,000 - 400 - - -
Kanai 4,600 Urdu Progress Gauge - 4,600 - - - -
 Kasar (Hindu traditions) 1,700 Marathi Progress Gauge 1,700 - - - - -
Kasar Otari 300 Telugu Progress Gauge 300 - - - - -
 Kayastha (Hindu traditions) 4,900 Hindi Progress Gauge 4,700 - 200 - - -
 Kharva (Hindu traditions) 24,000 Gujarati Progress Gauge 23,000 - 400 - - -
 Khati (Hindu traditions) 1,900 Hindi Progress Gauge 1,900 - 60 - - -
 Khatri (Hindu traditions) 2,100 Hindi Progress Gauge 2,100 - - - - -
 Khatri (Muslim traditions) 2,800 Gujarati Progress Gauge - 2,800 - - - -
 Khoja 68,000 Gujarati Progress Gauge - 68,000 - - - -
 Koli (Hindu traditions) 1,500 Hindi Progress Gauge 1,400 - 40 30 - -
 Koli Mahadev 8,900 Marathi Progress Gauge 8,700 100 20 100 - -
Koli of Sind (Hindu traditions) 800 Gujarati Progress Gauge 800 - - - - -
Koli Son 300 Marathi Progress Gauge 300 - - - - -
 Koshti 8,900 Marathi Progress Gauge 8,300 - 400 - - 100
 Kumhar, Kusavar (Hindu traditions) 13,000 Hindi Progress Gauge 12,000 - 600 - - -
 Kunbi (Hindu traditions) 63,000 Gujarati Progress Gauge 60,000 - 1,600 - 500 700
Kunbi Anjna 3,700 Gujarati Progress Gauge 3,700 - - - - -
 Kunbi Kadwa 1,600 Gujarati Progress Gauge 1,600 - - - - -
 Kunbi Konkani 11,000 Konkani, Goan Progress Gauge 11,000 - - - - -
 Kunbi Lewa 3,200 Gujarati Progress Gauge 3,200 - - - - -
 Kuruba 1,300 Kannada Progress Gauge 1,300 - - - - -
 Lingayat 20,000 Kannada Progress Gauge - - - - - 20,000
 Lohana 2,300 Gujarati Progress Gauge 2,000 - - - - 400
 Lohar (Hindu traditions) 11,000 Hindi Progress Gauge 11,000 - 500 - - -
 Machhi (Hindu traditions) 5,700 Gujarati Progress Gauge 5,500 - 200 - - -
 Madiga (Hindu traditions) 3,300 Telugu Progress Gauge 3,000 - 300 - - -
 Mahar (Buddhist traditions) 68,000 Marathi Progress Gauge 2,700 - 64,000 1,100 40 -
 Mahar (Christian traditions) 22,000 Marathi Progress Gauge - - - 22,000 - -
 Mahishya 1,500 Bengali Progress Gauge 1,500 - - - - -
 Mahratta Jadhav 66,000 Marathi Progress Gauge 62,000 - 2,400 - - 2,000
 Mahratta Kunbi 4,000 Gujarati Progress Gauge 3,900 - 100 - - -
 Mahratta Shinde 66,000 Marathi Progress Gauge 62,000 - 2,400 - - 2,000
 Mahratta unspecified 671,000 Marathi Progress Gauge 609,000 - 36,000 - - 26,000
 Mahyavanshi 2,900 Gujarati Progress Gauge 2,600 - 200 - - -
 Majothi 60 Kacchi Progress Gauge - 60 - - - -
 Mala (Hindu traditions) 1,300 Telugu Progress Gauge 1,200 - 200 - - -
 Malabar Catholic 9,500 Malayalam Progress Gauge - - - 9,500 - -
 Mali (Hindu traditions) 17,000 Hindi Progress Gauge 16,000 - 500 - - -
 Mallik (Muslim traditions) 7,400 Gujarati Progress Gauge - 7,400 - - - -
 Mangala 2,900 Telugu Progress Gauge 2,900 - - - - -
 Mappila 7,900 Malayalam Progress Gauge - 7,900 - - - -
 Maravan 1,700 Tamil Progress Gauge 1,700 - - - - -
Maru Kumhar 200 Gujarati Progress Gauge 200 - - - - -
Matang (Christian traditions) 8,800 Marathi Progress Gauge - - - 8,800 - -
 Matang (Hindu traditions) 10,000 Marathi Progress Gauge 6,700 - 3,400 200 - -
 Megh (Hindu traditions) 24,000 Hindi Progress Gauge 22,000 - 1,900 - 20 -
 Memon 62,000 Gujarati Progress Gauge - 62,000 - - - -
 Mochi (Hindu traditions) 16,000 Bengali Progress Gauge 13,000 - 1,200 1,000 - -
 Moger unspecified 2,000 Kannada Progress Gauge 1,900 - 90 - - -
 Momna 1,700 Gujarati Progress Gauge - 1,700 - - - -
Nadar (Christian traditions) 1,500 Tamil Progress Gauge - - - 1,500 - -
 Nadar (Hindu traditions) 2,300 Tamil Progress Gauge 2,300 - - - - -
 Nai (Hindu traditions) 16,000 Hindi Progress Gauge 16,000 - 800 - - -
 Nair 11,000 Malayalam Progress Gauge 11,000 - - - - -
Nanbai 200 Hindi Progress Gauge - 200 - - - -
 Oraon 1,500 Kurux Progress Gauge 1,400 - - 40 - -
 Pallan (Hindu traditions) 2,900 Tamil Progress Gauge 2,900 - 40 - - -
 Pandaram 400 Malayalam Progress Gauge 400 - - - - -
Paraiyan (Christian traditions) 1,100 Tamil Progress Gauge - - - 1,100 - -
 Paraiyan (Hindu traditions) 2,400 Tamil Progress Gauge 2,400 - - - - -
 Pardhi 2,400 Pardhi Progress Gauge 2,300 30 - - - 30
 Parsee 16,000 Gujarati Progress Gauge - - - - - 16,000
 Pashtun Afridi 3,300 Urdu Progress Gauge - 3,300 - - - -
 Pashtun Kakar 2,600 Urdu Progress Gauge - 2,600 - - - -
 Pashtun Lodhi (Dalazak) 1,100 Hindi Progress Gauge - 1,100 - - - -
 Pashtun Mohmand 1,000 Urdu Progress Gauge - 1,000 - - - -
 Pashtun Yusafzai 3,300 Urdu Progress Gauge - 3,300 - - - -
 Pashtun, Pathan 61,000 Urdu Progress Gauge - 61,000 - - - -
 Pasi (Hindu traditions) 2,400 Hindi Progress Gauge 2,200 - 200 - - -
 Patharwat 2,100 Marathi Progress Gauge 2,100 - - - - -
Patvekari (Muslim traditions) 50 Urdu Progress Gauge - 50 - - - -
 Persian 400 Dari Progress Gauge - 400 - - - -
Phudgi 400 Marathi Progress Gauge 400 - - - - -
 Pinjara 2,200 Urdu Progress Gauge - 2,200 - - - -
Prabhu Kayastha 28,000 Marathi Progress Gauge 28,000 - - - - -
Prabhu Patane 15,000 Marathi Progress Gauge 15,000 - - - - -
Qalaigar 70 Urdu Progress Gauge - 70 - - - -
Quam-e-Punjab 800 Punjabi, Eastern Progress Gauge - 800 - - - -
 Rabari (Hindu traditions) 1,900 Gujarati Progress Gauge 1,900 - - - - -
Rachband 200 Punjabi, Eastern Progress Gauge 200 - - - - -
 Rajaka Dhobi (Hindu traditions) 18,000 Hindi Progress Gauge 16,000 - 1,200 - - -
 Rajbhar 2,700 Hindi Progress Gauge 2,700 - - - - -
 Rajput (Hindu traditions) 20,000 Hindi Progress Gauge 20,000 - - - - 400
 Rajput (Sikh traditions) 1,500 Punjabi, Eastern Progress Gauge - - - - 1,500 -
 Rajput Chauhan (Hindu traditions) 1,000 Hindi Progress Gauge 1,000 - - - - -
Salat (Hindu traditions) 600 Gujarati Progress Gauge 600 - - - - -
 Sali 17,000 Kannada Progress Gauge 16,000 - 1,200 - - -
 Satnami 3,500 Hindi Progress Gauge 3,000 - 500 100 - -
 Sayyid 58,000 Urdu Progress Gauge - 58,000 - - - -
Sayyid Husaini 1,000 Urdu Progress Gauge - 1,000 - - - -
 Shaikh Faruqi 1,600 Urdu Progress Gauge - 1,600 - - - -
 Shaikh Qureshi 18,000 Urdu Progress Gauge - 18,000 - - - -
 Shaikh Siddiqi 16,000 Bengali Progress Gauge - 16,000 - - - -
 Shaikh unspecified 286,000 Urdu Progress Gauge - 286,000 - 20 - -
 Shaikh Usmani 1,000 Urdu Progress Gauge - 1,000 - - - -
 Sindhi (Muslim traditions) 2,000 Sindhi Progress Gauge - 2,000 - - - -
 Sinhalese 300 Sinhala Progress Gauge - - 300 - - -
 Somvanshi 5,700 Marathi Progress Gauge 5,700 - - - - -
 Sonar (Hindu traditions) 60,000 Hindi Progress Gauge 57,000 - 800 - - 2,400
Sonar Aksali 4,100 Marathi Progress Gauge 4,100 - - - - -
 Syrian Christian 13,000 Malayalam Progress Gauge - - - 13,000 - -
 Tamboli (Hindu traditions) 11,000 Hindi Progress Gauge 11,000 - 200 - - -
 Tamil (Muslim traditions) 7,700 Tamil Progress Gauge - 7,700 - - - -
 Targala 500 Gujarati Progress Gauge 500 - - - - -
 Tarkhan (Sikh traditions) 1,300 Punjabi, Eastern Progress Gauge - - - - 1,300 -
 Teli (Hindu traditions) 22,000 Hindi Progress Gauge 21,000 - - - 600 -
 Teli (Muslim traditions) 3,600 Hindi Progress Gauge - 3,600 - - - -
 Teli Ganiga (Hindu traditions) 11,000 Marathi Progress Gauge 11,000 - - - - -
Teli Ganiga (Muslim traditions) 200 Urdu Progress Gauge - 200 - - - -
 Thakkar 1,300 Marathi Progress Gauge 1,300 20 20 - - -
 Vaddar (Hindu traditions) 5,000 Telugu Progress Gauge 4,700 - 200 - - -
 Vakkaliga unspecified 5,800 Kannada Progress Gauge 5,800 - - - - -
Valmiki (Buddhist traditions) 1,000 Hindi Progress Gauge - - 1,000 - - -
 Valmiki (Hindu traditions) 12,000 Hindi Progress Gauge 12,000 - - - - -
 Vanjara 3,800 Marathi Progress Gauge 3,800 - - - - -
 Vanniyan 11,000 Tamil Progress Gauge 11,000 - - - - -
Vathiriyan (Christian traditions) 400 Tamil Progress Gauge - - - 400 - -
 Vellalan unspecified 2,700 Tamil Progress Gauge 2,600 - - 100 - -
 Viswakarma unspecified 5,500 Tamil Progress Gauge 5,500 - - - - -
 Yadav (Hindu traditions) 11,000 Hindi Progress Gauge 11,000 - - - - -
 Yadav Gola 2,800 Telugu Progress Gauge 2,800 - - - - -
 Yadav Gualbans (Hindu traditions) 1,200 Hindi Progress Gauge 1,200 - - - - -
  Major Groups (displayed):  224 3,499,000   211 2,197,000 815,000 134,000 88,000 7,500 257,000
  All Groups (including small not displayed *):  561 3,579,000   514 2,257,000 823,000 135,000 91,000 14,000 258,000
* District level entries that are less than 1,000 individuals AND less than 1% of the groups total in the country are not displayed.

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