Ratnipora

Ratnipora has an above-average literacy rate for the region, which, as per the 2011 Census, is 71.44% compared to 67.16% for Jammu and Kashmir. In Ratnipora male literacy stands at 82.46% while the female literacy rate was 60.42%. Ratnipora has a very high number of residents who have completed higher education. It is home to some of the most prominent poets and educationists of the Kashmir Valley. The people mainly rely on government jobs, but agriculture is also practiced by one-third of the population.

It is fondly called the "Land of Poets". Sheikh Umar can be ascribed a great contribution in educating the current late septuagenarian and octogenarian Muslim men. He taught Qur'an.

While there are five Jamia Masjids, there are more than 50 small Masjids and a Hindu temple. Ratnipora was also inhabited by thirty Hindu (Kashmiri Pandit) households who lived in perfect harmony with their Muslim neighbours but had to leave their homes & hearths in the year 1990 due to disturbed situation in Kashmir valley.

Ratnipora was inhabited on the banks of trout stream namely "Naalaye Laar" and there are four bridges connecting the two parts. To the Northwest flows a river called Romush coming from Pahoo while to the Southwest flows a stream namely "Bren Kuol" coming from Puchhal, and all the three streams meet Jehlum in the southern outskirts of Ratnipora. Recently a railway halt station is to be operational from 8th may 2023.