Demography

Navi Mumbai is close to Mumbai. The Maharashtra Government industrial promotion policy leads to development of industrial belt in Navi Mumbai. These industries, in turn, attracted a large population as workers.

Also, the cost of real estate and housing in Navi Mumbai is much less than costs in Mumbai and sub-urban areas. Many government and corporate offices have been shifted from Mumbai to Navi Mumbai. Chemical, Pharmaceutical, Engineering, Textile Processing, Petrochemical, Electronics, Oil and Processing, Paper, Plastic, Steel and Food Industries in the Taloja and Thane Belapur Industrial Belt of Navi Mumbai offer job opportunities of every conceivable kind - from engineers to mechanics to clerks to peons. As a result a large population of service class and middle class population shifted to Navi Mumbai.

The population residing within NMMC area has increased from 3.18 lakhs in 1991 to 7.04 lakhs. The decadal growth rate in various zones of NMMC varied from 8 % in Airoli to 309 % in Digha (table below). The overall increase in population during 1991-2001 was 82 percent.

Zone	Name	1991	2001	Decadal Increase %
A	Belapur	38,343	73,069	91
B	Nerul	52,767	1,16,842	121
C	Vashi	74,564	1,11,600	50
D	Turbhe	40,700	1,02,569	152
E	Koparkhairane	49,863	1,04,296	109
F	Ghansoli	23,691	51,632	118
G	Airoli	83,756	76,889	- 8
H	Digha	13,295	54,326	309
I	Dahisar	10,227	12,724	24
Total:		3,87,206	7,03,947	82