The district is divided into two noncontiguous parts, the main Kapurthala-Sultanpur Lodhi portion and the Phagwara tehsil or block.

Phagwara lies on the National Highway No 1, and the tehsil is much more industrially developed than the remainder of Kapurthala District.

According to the 2011 census Kapurthala district has a population of 815,168,[1] roughly equal to the nation of Comoros[2] or the US state of South Dakota.

The table below shows the child sex ratio of children below the age of 6 years in the rural and urban areas of Kapurthala district.

[7] The table below shows the population of different religions in absolute numbers in the urban and rural areas of Kapurthala district.

[20] In 2010–11, there were 4,305 registered Micro and Small Enterprise (MSE) units in Kapurthala district, which provided employment to 22,678 people.