Background: Population is on an increasing trend in the whole world, more the people more the limitation of resources and less the availability, hence an important need of the hour is widespread use of contraception in our country so as the stabilize the ratio between the growing population and the available resources. Materials and Methods: A prospective descriptive study done in SMGS Hospital Jammu over a period of 1 year (March 2023-April 2024). 500 married females selected randomly between 18-45 years age attending the OPD at SMGS Hospital willing to be a part of the study were included and questioned based on a Performa. The patients <18 years and >45 years, patients with premature menopause or surgical menopause or with absolute contraindication for contraceptive use were excluded from the study. Results: Prevalence of contraceptive use in Jammu is 49.4% with 56.7% participants between 26-35 years of age, 88.6% of the females had knowledge about contraceptive methods. 82.6% of the participants were Graduate and above, 61.5% were within first 5 years of marriage, 54.7% were from middle class, 87% of the contraceptive users had ≥1 live children and 13% were nullipara or had no live children. Barrier method was the most common method (29.1%) followed by OCP (20.2%). 52.6% of the contraceptive users had regularity in their contraceptive use. Conclusion: Use of contraceptive still lags among the lower class, uneducated females mostly housemakers. This sect of the society needs to be catered and counselled to increase the prevalence of contraceptive use.