Alirajpur

With 7,28,999 people at the 2011 Census, Alirajpur was the 498th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 46th most populous of Madhya Pradesh's 50. That is 1.0% of everyone living in Madhya Pradesh at the time.

Literacy stood at 36.10%, 36.9 points below the national 72.98% — 33.2 points below the Madhya Pradesh average. That ranked it 640th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 11.7 points, 4.5 points below the national gap of 16.3.

The sex ratio was 1011 women per 1,000 men (80 above the Madhya Pradesh figure of 931) — one of the minority of districts where women outnumbered men. Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 978, 60 above the national 918.

50.3% of the population were recorded as workers, 6.9 points above the Madhya Pradesh rate. Female work participation was 48.6%, 16.0 points above the state figure.

Alirajpur contained 4 towns — 3 with a municipal body of some kind, and 1 classed as census towns, meaning they met the census's urban test without having one. The largest was Alirajpur (M), with 28,498 people. That put 7.8% of the district in urban areas, 19.8 points below the Madhya Pradesh share of 27.6%.