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Maharashtra districts

Maharashtra

Ahmadnagar

45,43,159
people at the 2011 Census · 23.43 L male, 22.00 L female

Population

Population
45.43 LIndia 121.09 Cr
Urban %
20.09%India 31.14%

Literacy

Literacy
79.05%India 72.98%
Male Lit.
86.82%India 80.88%
Female Lit.
70.89%India 64.63%
Lit. Gap
15.93 ppIndia 16.25 pp

Society

Sex Ratio
939 / 1000India 943 / 1000
Child Sex Ratio
852 / 1000India 918 / 1000
Under 7
12.24%India 13.59%
SC %
12.63%India 16.63%
ST %
8.33%India 8.63%
Household
4.88India 4.85

Work

Workers
48.53%India 39.80%
Female Work
41.10%India 25.52%
Main Workers
92.51%India 75.24%
Non-Workers
51.47%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.

Ahmadnagar in context

With 45,43,159 people at the 2011 Census, Ahmadnagar was the 33rd most populous of India's 640 districts and the 6th most populous of Maharashtra's 35. That is 4.0% of everyone living in Maharashtra at the time.

Literacy stood at 79.05%, 6.1 points above the national 72.98% — 3.3 points below the Maharashtra average. That ranked it 178th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 15.9 points, level with the national gap of 16.3.

The sex ratio was 939 women per 1,000 men (10 above the Maharashtra figure of 929). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 852, 66 below the national 918.

48.5% of the population were recorded as workers, 4.5 points above the Maharashtra rate. Female work participation was 41.1%, 10.0 points above the state figure.

Ahmadnagar contained 19 towns — 11 with a municipal body of some kind, and 8 classed as census towns, meaning they met the census's urban test without having one. The largest was Ahmadnagar (M Corp.), with 3,50,859 people. That put 20.1% of the district in urban areas, 25.1 points below the Maharashtra share of 45.2%.

Towns in Ahmadnagar

Ahmadnagar has 19 census towns. The largest are listed below.

Largest towns in Ahmadnagar by 2011 Census population.
TownPopulationLiteracySex ratio
Ahmadnagar (M Corp.)3.51 L89.79%961 / 1000
Shrirampur (M Cl)89,28285.90%991 / 1000
Sangamner (M Cl)65,80490.86%966 / 1000
Kopargaon (M Cl)65,27385.08%965 / 1000
Rahuri (M Cl)38,81383.69%927 / 1000
Shirdi (NP)36,00483.89%920 / 1000
Jamkhed (CT)34,01783.12%955 / 1000
Shrigonda (M Cl)31,13481.91%940 / 1000
All 19 towns in Ahmadnagar