Anugul
Population
- Population
- 12.74 LIndia 121.09 Cr
- Urban %
- 16.21%India 31.14%
Literacy
- Literacy
- 77.53%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 85.98%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 68.64%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 17.34 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 943 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 889 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 11.96%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 18.81%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 14.10%India 8.63%
- Household
- 4.29India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 41.33%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 26.79%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 60.31%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 58.67%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.
Anugul in context
With 12,73,821 people at the 2011 Census, Anugul was the 380th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 16th most populous of Odisha's 30. That is 3.0% of everyone living in Odisha at the time.
Literacy stood at 77.53%, 4.5 points above the national 72.98% — 4.7 points above the Odisha average. That ranked it 206th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 17.3 points, 1.1 points above the national gap of 16.3.
The sex ratio was 943 women per 1,000 men (36 below the Odisha figure of 979). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 889, 29 below the national 918.
Anugul contained 18 towns — 3 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 Anugul (M), with 43,795 people. That put 16.2% of the district in urban areas, level with the Odisha share of 16.7%.
Towns in Anugul
Anugul has 18 census towns. The largest are listed below.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anugul (M) | 43,795 | 91.35% | 866 / 1000 |
| Talcher (M) | 40,841 | 85.18% | 876 / 1000 |
| Nalco (CT) | 19,644 | 88.50% | 940 / 1000 |
| Dera Colliery Township (CT) | 15,787 | 89.66% | 890 / 1000 |
| Ghantapada (CT) | 15,169 | 83.80% | 878 / 1000 |
| Athmallik (NAC) | 12,298 | 78.57% | 955 / 1000 |
| Gotamara (CT) | 7,420 | 83.86% | 905 / 1000 |
| Kandasar (Part) (CT) | 6,668 | 88.88% | 887 / 1000 |