The Centre For Policy Studies (CPS) recently posted (2 July 2016) a note describing its findings from the Religion Data of Census 2011 on its website. It detailed the religious demography of the urban population in Uttar Pradesh (UP).

In the western parts of the state, comprising eight districts, 103 out of 154 towns (two-thirds) are Muslim-majority. Eleven of the 15 towns with a Muslim presence of over 90 percent are located in these eight districts of western UP.

But the presence of a large Muslim population is not limited to western UP alone. In urban centres especially, the share of Muslims is much higher than the average total share in the state’s population. They form 32.2 percent of the urban population while occupying less than 20 percent of the total and only 15.6 percent of the rural population.

The census report notes: