[3] The district consists of 5 talukas: Tilakwada, Garudeshwar, Nandod (including Rajpipla), Dediyapada, and Sagbara.

It consists two Vidhan Sabha constituency: Nandod and Dediapada In 2006 the Ministry of Panchayati Raj named Narmada one of the country's 250 most backward districts (out of a total of 640).

[4] According to the 2011 census Narmada district has a population of 590,297,[2] roughly equal to the nation of Solomon Islands[6] or the US state of Wyoming.

[2] Narmada has a sex ratio of 960 females for every 1000 males,[2] and a literacy rate of 73.29%.

[2] At the time of the 2011 Census of India, 68.50% of the population in the district spoke Gujarati, 26.37% Vasavi,[a] 1.73% Hindi and 0.93% Bhili as their first language.