Adilabad
Population
- Population
- 27.41 LIndia 121.09 Cr
- Urban %
- 27.73%India 31.14%
Literacy
- Literacy
- 61.01%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 70.81%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 51.31%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 19.50 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 1001 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 934 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 11.31%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 17.82%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 18.09%India 8.63%
- Household
- 4.22India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 48.29%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 41.90%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 80.57%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 51.71%India 60.20%
Population density, land area and decadal growth are not published in the Primary Census Abstract and so are unavailable at district level. See Methodology.
Adilabad in context
With 27,41,239 people at the 2011 Census, Adilabad was the 143rd most populous of India's 640 districts and the 20th most populous of Andhra Pradesh's 23. That is 3.2% of everyone living in Andhra Pradesh at the time.
Literacy stood at 61.01%, 12.0 points below the national 72.98% — 6.0 points below the Andhra Pradesh average. That ranked it 554th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 19.5 points, 3.3 points above the national gap of 16.3.
The sex ratio was 1001 women per 1,000 men (8 above the Andhra Pradesh figure of 993) — one of the minority of districts where women outnumbered men. Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 934, 16 above the national 918.
Female work participation was 41.9%, 5.7 points above the state figure.
Adilabad contained 23 towns — 8 with a municipal body of some kind, and 15 classed as census towns, meaning they met the census's urban test without having one. The largest was Adilabad (M), with 1,17,167 people. That put 27.7% of the district in urban areas, 5.6 points below the Andhra Pradesh share of 33.4%.
Towns in Adilabad
Adilabad has 23 census towns. The largest are listed below.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adilabad (M) | 1.17 L | 78.74% | 971 / 1000 |
| Nirmal (M) | 88,433 | 76.39% | 1007 / 1000 |
| Mancherial (M) | 86,911 | 77.30% | 975 / 1000 |
| Kagaznagar (M) | 57,583 | 80.51% | 1010 / 1000 |
| Bellampalle (M) (Part) | 53,958 | 77.25% | 991 / 1000 |
| Mandamarri (M) | 52,352 | 73.40% | 953 / 1000 |
| Bhainsa (M) | 49,764 | 69.80% | 986 / 1000 |
| Kyathampalle (CT) | 32,385 | 71.69% | 931 / 1000 |