Total population
2,521,513 2023 Digital Census
Toba Tek Singh District
Toba Tek Singh District, independent since 1982, sits centrally within Faisalabad Division with roughly 2.52 million residents (2023 Digital Census). A prominent textile, poultry, and agricultural processing centre, it is famed globally for high-yield Kinnow and citrus orchards and grain markets rooted in British canal colonization layouts. This page summarises district statistics, services, elected representation, and priority development challenges.
Basic information
Total area
3,259 km²
Administrative units
4 tehsils · 109 union councils · 539 villages
Administrative scale
Indicators
| Indicator | Value |
|---|---|
| Total population (2023 Digital Census) | 2,521,513 |
| Tehsils | 4 |
| Union councils | 109 |
| Villages | 539 |
| Total area | 3,259 km² |
| Public schools | 1,372 |
| Police stations | 11 |
Educational institutions
| Type | Count |
|---|---|
| Public schools | 1,372 |
| Public colleges (government) | 1+ |
| Combined out-of-school rate (5–16) | 15.0% |
| Rural secondary OOS (estimate) | 21.5%+ |
Health facilities
| Facility type | Count |
|---|---|
| TB clinics | 01 |
| DHQ Hospital Toba Tek Singh | 01 |
| THQ hospitals (Gojra, Kamalia, Pir Mahal) | 03 |
| Rural health centres (RHC) | 09 |
| Basic health units (BHU) | 81 |
| Rural dispensaries | 34 |
| MCH centres | 06 |
Health facilities (overview)
| Facility type | Count |
|---|---|
| DHQ | 01 |
| THQ | 03 |
| RHC | 09 |
| BHU | 81 |
| Total (listed types) | 94 |
Police stations (by circle)
| Circle | Stations |
|---|---|
| Saddar circle | 04 |
| Kamalia circle | 04 |
| Gojra circle | 03 |
| Total | 11 |
Civil courts
| Measure | Notes |
|---|---|
| Civil courts (by tehsil) | Not specified in available district source data. |
Elected representation (party mix)
Based on listed MNAs and MPAs (NA-105–107, PP-119–124). NA: IND 2, PML-N 1; PP: IND 3, PML-N 3.
Key challenge indicators
Schooling, employment, water access, and bed capacity from division district profile data.
National Assembly constituencies
| Member | Constituency | Name (Party) |
|---|---|---|
|
NA-105 Toba Tek Singh-I | Usama Hamza (Independent) |
|
NA-106 Toba Tek Singh-II | Muhammad Junaid Anwaar Chaudhry (PML-N) |
|
NA-107 Toba Tek Singh-III | Muhammad Riaz Khan Fatyana (Independent) |
Provincial Assembly constituencies
| Member | Constituency | Name (Party) |
|---|---|---|
|
PP-119 Toba Tek Singh-I | Asad Zaman Cheema (Independent) |
|
PP-120 Toba Tek Singh-II | Muhammad Ahsan Ihsan (PML-N) |
|
PP-121 Toba Tek Singh-III | Amjad Ali Javed (PML-N) |
|
PP-122 Toba Tek Singh-IV | Muhammad Ayub Khan Gadhi (PML-N) |
|
PP-123 Toba Tek Singh-V | Ashifa Riaz Fatyana (Independent) |
|
PP-124 Toba Tek Singh-VI | Sonia Ali Raza (Independent) |
Priority issues & challenges
1. Health
Toba Tek Singh handles severe secondary-to-tertiary delivery gridlocks, operating under about 0.44 beds per 1,000 citizens. With no medical university or teaching hospital within district boundaries, specialized emergency, oncology, and advanced infant care demands are redirected across transit roads into Faisalabad’s saturated hubs.
2. Education
Driven by a sharp post-primary school structural gap, the district’s peripheral rural belt deals with high out-of-school numbers. An out-of-school child pattern exceeds 21.5% in secondary school brackets of rural union councils, caused by insufficient middle-to-higher secondary upgrades.
3. Unemployment
Technical and professional underemployment runs high; despite remittance flows from an active diaspora, general unemployment of 8.6% remains. The lack of modern tech hubs or localized corporate infrastructure sustains a 12.8% child labour pattern within informal agro-processing loops.
4. Water crisis
Intensive agrochemicals and fertilizer runoff have degraded local shallow water beds. Decaying municipal and village delivery grids leave over 48% of the regional population without biologically safe drinking water assets.
5. Environmental challenges
The district encounters intense pollution from untreated discharge from cotton ginning units, oil mills, and weaving sectors. Agricultural water tests confirm that 16.2% of sub-soil irrigation aquifers are entirely unfit due to persistent chemical seepage.
6. Infrastructure
Advanced structural cracking and severe surface erosion affect an average of 40% of secondary rural farm-to-market links, driven by inadequate layouts that fail under the heavy axle-load weights of seasonal sugarcane and citrus transport logistics.