A view of Huzhou, East China's Zhejiang province. [Photo/WeChat account:huzhoufabu] 

Huzhou's permanent population grew at an average rate of 1.53 percent annually during the past 10 years to over 3.36 million, according to the seventh national census recently released by the National Bureau of Statistics.

Each household from the city in East China's Zhejiang province has an average 2.53 people, 0.4 less than in the previous census in 2010. The ratio of males to females stands at 107.73 percent, a rise of 4.4 percent over 2010.

Wuxing district is the most populous area in the city with a permanent population of about 712,000, followed by Nanxun district, Deqing county, Changxing county, Anji county and Southern Taihu Lake New District, according to the census data.

In terms of demographic distribution, people aged 14 and younger make up 11.94 percent of the city's total population, up 0.27 percentage points from 2010, while the share of those aged 60 and above rose 5.13 percentage points from a decade ago to 21.34 percent, indicating an aging society.

The number of people with a college degree out of 100,000 has surged from 6,568 to 13,669. The city's illiteracy rate has also dropped from 5.11 percent to 1.93 percent.

People living in the city's urban areas account for 65.64 percent of the total population, an uptick of 12.75 percentage points from 2010.