All Administrative units that have been defined by statute as urban like Municipal Corporations, Municipalities, Contonment Boards, Notified Town Area Committee, Town Panchayats, Nagar Palika etc. are known as Statutory Town. Further Statutory Towns with population of 1,00,000 and above are categorized as cities.
All other places which satisfied the following criteria.
- a minimum population of 5,000,
- at least 75% of the male main working force engaged in non-agricultural activities and
- population density of at least 400 persons per sq.km.
As per 2011 Census, there are 3,784 Census Towns as against 1,362 in 2001.