economic fabric
What is Agra made of?
news coverage + 3×registered companies + 2×mapped places, log-scaled vs strongest sector
momentum
What the city turned toward · Jan–Apr 2026
Each topic's share of news attention, January–April 2026 against September–December 2025 — news ingestion paused in May, so this is the latest complete window.
Legal Judicial
76 → 135 news reports
▲110%
Protest
85 → 22 news reports
▼69%
Immigration Border
11 → 4 news reports
▼57%
Disasters Emergencies
82 → 33 news reports
▼52%
Education
12 → 5 news reports
▼51%
Human Rights Social
11 → 5 news reports
▼46%
Missing Persons
13 → 16 news reports
▲45%
Environment
27 → 15 news reports
▼34%
Elections Politics
55 → 31 news reports
▼33%
Corruption
102 → 59 news reports
▼32%
a rising share means the city's attention is turning toward it — not necessarily more incidents
top city themes
What Agra's news is about
Themes across the city's entire news coverage — ≈54.4K located reports — with each theme's momentum, its most specific keywords, and how the coverage feels. A CRITICAL badge means most of that theme's coverage is extremely negative.
Crime
▲2.4% growing
Child Abuse · Truck Accident · Child Maltreatment · Student Assault
99% negative coverage
Politics
▼27.8% declining
Bench Trial Magistrate · Voter Registration Deadlines · Faith-based Violence · Police Violence
64% negative coverage
Government
▼46.7% declining
Intercity Bus Routes · Intercity Bus Connections · Tax Policy Execution · Metro Station Infrastructure
64% positive coverage
Transportation
▲15.4% growing
Truck Accident · Bus Crash · Transport Crash · Traffic Disaster
67% negative coverage
Law Enforcement
▲30.8% growing
Cyberstalking Enforcement · Murder Investigations · Truck Accident · Acquaintance Rape
98% negative coverage
Education
▼30.0% declining
Student Assault · Teacher Abuse · School Homicide · School Violence
52% negative coverage
Health
steady coverage
Epidemic Investigation · Disease Outbreak Alert · Infectious Disease Hospital · West Nile Virus Spread
81% negative coverage
Accident
steady coverage
Truck Accident · Bus Crash · Transport Crash · Traffic Disaster
100% negative coverage
Infrastructure
steady coverage
Metro Station Infrastructure · Underground Railways · High-speed Rail Facilities · Metro Networks
77% positive coverage
momentum window: Jan–Apr 2026 vs Sep–Dec 2025 · sentiment is a property of the news coverage, not a city rating
city signals
The character of Agra
- ✓Retail at street level— Retail scores 10/10 across news, companies and mapped businesses.
- ✓Credible manufacturing base— Manufacturing scores 9/10, with 320 mapped industrial places.
- ✓Footwear cluster— Shoe stores, factories and wholesalers crowd the business map.
- ✓Finance-led employment— Banks, insurers and sales roles dominate what employers advertise.
- ✓Thin venture pipeline— Only 14 tracked companies ever raised outside money.
- ✓Research-rich institutions— Local institutions account for 3607 papers, led by medicine.
- ✓Transport investment focus— Transport leads government announcements tied to Agra.
- ✓Tourism-service depth— The religion-and-tourism sector scores 8/10, with 55 mapped 3-star hotels.
everyday life
Living in Agra means…
- ✓navigating dangerous roads— Accident coverage rose 1.4 points; 31.6% involved deaths.
- ✓buying around a footwear cluster— Stores, factories and wholesalers all appear prominently on the map.
- ✓finding sales-heavy work— Banks, insurers and lead-generation roles dominate advertised jobs.
- ✓watching outbreaks recede— Disease, coronavirus and dengue outbreak signals are all receding.
- ✓seeing transport take priority— Transport leads government themes, ahead of education and housing.
- ✓seeing a negative news cycle— 64% of local coverage reads negative.
read from the news record — not a survey
hidden depth
Things most people don't know
- Agra’s business map shows almost as many shoe factories as shoe stores: 69 factories and 70 stores.
- Coverage of a May 2018 dust storm places the death toll in a strikingly wide 40–91 range.
- PNC Infratech, the largest tracked employer, accepted a ₹234.72 crore settlement offer from the national highway authority in May 2026.
- Sarojini Naidu Medical College leads the city’s named research institutions with 518 papers, while agriculture outranks artificial intelligence among opportunity areas.
- Only 14 of 692 tracked companies have ever raised outside money, despite 282 companies being founded since 2018.