Atlas
District metrics, ranked.
Sort all 700+ Indian districts on any of the metrics Nilam tracks. Useful for shortlisting where to base a venture, or for understanding India through the dimension you care about — distance to a metro, sex ratio, household size, and more as the data layer grows.
Available metrics (11)
Distance to nearest metro
Straight-line km from the district centroid to the nearest tier-1 commercial city (Mumbai, Delhi, Bengaluru, Chennai, Kolkata, Hyderabad, Ahmedabad). Lower is better for market access.
733 districts
Sex ratio
Females per 1,000 males (Indian official convention). National average ~940; below 900 reads skewed male; above 1,000 reads skewed female (Kerala's unique inversion).
595 districts
Avg household size
Total population divided by number of households. Rural districts run 5.5+; metro cores run ~4.0. Proxies for urbanisation, joint-family prevalence, and youth dependency.
595 districts
Female population
Total female population (Wikidata P1539, Census 2011 baseline).
595 districts
Male population
Total male population (Wikidata P1540, Census 2011 baseline).
595 districts
Households
Total number of households (Wikidata P1538, Census 2011 baseline).
595 districts
MSMEs registered
Total MSMEs registered on the Udyam portal (M/o MSME, cumulative to date). The closest thing India has to a live register of formal small-business activity per district.
720 districts
MSMEs per lakh
Udyam-registered MSMEs per 1,00,000 people — registration density normalised for district size. The 'most entrepreneurial district' ranking: high values mean more formal businesses per resident.
645 districts
Micro enterprises (Udyam)
Udyam-registered micro enterprises (investment ≤ ₹1 cr, turnover ≤ ₹5 cr). Typically 98%+ of all registrations — the kirana-to-workshop layer of the economy.
720 districts
Small enterprises (Udyam)
Udyam-registered small enterprises (investment ≤ ₹10 cr, turnover ≤ ₹50 cr). A district's count signals businesses that have scaled past micro.
720 districts
Medium enterprises (Udyam)
Udyam-registered medium enterprises (investment ≤ ₹50 cr, turnover ≤ ₹250 cr). Rare outside industrial districts — a strong formal-industry signal.
720 districts
Adding a new metric
Atlas stores metrics in an open EAV table (district_metrics). New ingest tools add rows; the explorer surfaces them automatically. Add per-metric metadata to lib/atlas-metric-meta.ts to give a metric a label and a description; without it, the key surfaces in humanized form.