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Andhra Pradesh districts

Andhra Pradesh

Adilabad

27,41,239
people at the 2011 Census · 13.70 L male, 13.72 L female

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.

Largest towns in Adilabad by 2011 Census population.
TownPopulationLiteracySex ratio
Adilabad (M)1.17 L78.74%971 / 1000
Nirmal (M)88,43376.39%1007 / 1000
Mancherial (M)86,91177.30%975 / 1000
Kagaznagar (M)57,58380.51%1010 / 1000
Bellampalle (M) (Part)53,95877.25%991 / 1000
Mandamarri (M)52,35273.40%953 / 1000
Bhainsa (M)49,76469.80%986 / 1000
Kyathampalle (CT)32,38571.69%931 / 1000
All 23 towns in Adilabad