Sarsawa is a Nagar Palika Parishad town in Nakur tehsil district of Saharanpur, Uttar Pradesh. The Sarsawa city is divided into 25 wards for which elections are held every 5 years. The Sarsawa Nagar Palika Parishad has population of 18,956 of which 10,076 are males while 8,880 are females as per report released by Census India 2011.
At the 2011 Census of India, the population of children with age of 0–6 is 2466 which is 13.01% of total population of Sarsawa (NPP). In Sarsawa Nagar Palika Parishad, Female Sex Ratio is of 881 against state average of 912. Moreover, Child Sex Ratio in Sarsawa is around 820 compared to Uttar Pradesh state average of 902. Literacy rate of Sarsawa city is 79.40% higher than state average of 67.68%. In Sarsawa, Male literacy is around 85.21% while female literacy rate is 72.88%.
Schedule Caste (SC) constitutes 16.41% while Schedule Tribe (ST) were 0.02% of total population in Sarsawa (NPP).