Battagram District

Battagram District: Quick Answers

Battagram District is one of the 38 districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, with its headquarters at Battagram. It has 2 tehsils: Allai and Batagram. The 2023 census counted 554,133 people on 1,301 km², and 39.09% of residents aged 10 and over were literate.

Population

554,133 (2023 census)

Area

1,301 km² · 425.93 people per km²

Urban population

0%

Annual growth 2017–2023

2.55%

Average household size

6.4

Population in 2017

476,749

Sex ratio

103.11 males per 100 females

Literacy rate (age 10+)

39.09% · male 54.69% · female 23.34%

Main mother tongues

Pashto 81.94% · Hindko 3.85% · Kohistani 2.11%

Tehsils

2 – Allai and Batagram

Headquarters

Battagram

Province / territory

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

Known for

Battagram sits on the Karakoram Highway in Hazara Division, with a cool hill climate around its market-town headquarters.

Culture

Pashto and Hindko are both spoken across the surrounding hill villages.

Education

The district runs government degree colleges; students looking for more specialised courses usually travel on to Mansehra or Abbottabad.

Healthcare

DHQ Battagram is the main public hospital serving the tehsil.

Villages / local areas

In January 2023, the neighbouring Allai tehsil was separated from Battagram and given full district status — it now has its own entry on this atlas.

Battagram District: 2023 census figures by tehsil

Name	Type	Population	Area (km²)	Urban	Literacy (10+)
Allai	Tehsil	218,149	804	–	35.71%
Batagram	Tehsil	335,984	497	–	41.2%

Source: Pakistan Bureau of Statistics, Census 2023, Table 1. Checked 2026-09-29.

Battagram is a hill district of Hazara on the Karakoram Highway, between Mansehra and the Kohistan / Shangla side. It was a tehsil of Mansehra until 1993. The 8 October 2005 earthquake hit this belt hard; that date is still how older people mark time, not a tourist line.

PBS 2023 for the present district (Battagram tehsil only): 335,984 people, 51,366 households, area 497 km². Urban column: zero. Literacy 39.09 percent overall — 54.69 percent for men, 23.34 percent for women. Phone code 0997. Postal code often listed as 21040. District site: battagram.kp.gov.pk.

Older books add Allai and quote half a million people. Allai was raised to a separate district in 2022 (218,149 people in its 2023 tehsil table). This page does not glue those two books back together.

Battagram: One tehsil, twelve union councils

Public lists for Battagram tehsil name these twelve councils:

Ajmera, Banian, Battagram, Batamori, Gijbori, Kuza Banda, Paimal Sharif, Peshora, Rajdhari, Shumlai, Thakot, Trand.

Thakot is the Indus-side name many drivers already know from the highway. Battagram bazaar is the headquarters. The rest are valley councils, not municipal towns.

Pashto is the main speech. Gujari and some Hindko / Kohistani speech show up in older language notes. Do not treat those percentages as a fresh PBS table unless the Bureau reprints them for this slimmer district.

Schools and the hospital in Battagram District

Government colleges sit in Battagram. Degree students still leave for Mansehra, Abbottabad or Peshawar. DHQ Battagram is the first hospital. After 2005 the rebuilt schools and the DHQ are part of the district story, not extras. Female literacy at 23 percent is why a girls’ high school in a far union council matters more on this page than a scenery paragraph.

Winter and monsoon both close the side roads off the KKH. That is ordinary administration here.

Sources: PBS 2023; KP District Battagram; union-council list published with the current one-tehsil district. Last checked September 2026.