Ashoknagar
Population
- Population
- 8.45 LIndia 121.09 Cr
- Urban %
- 18.19%India 31.14%
Literacy
- Literacy
- 66.42%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 78.12%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 53.42%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 24.70 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 904 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 921 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 16.42%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 20.80%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 9.71%India 8.63%
- Household
- 4.89India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 37.31%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 20.80%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 76.53%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 62.69%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.
Ashoknagar in context
With 8,45,071 people at the 2011 Census, Ashoknagar was the 475th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 41st most populous of Madhya Pradesh's 50. That is 1.2% of everyone living in Madhya Pradesh at the time.
Literacy stood at 66.42%, 6.6 points below the national 72.98% — 2.9 points below the Madhya Pradesh average. That ranked it 462nd of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 24.7 points, 8.4 points above the national gap of 16.3.
The sex ratio was 904 women per 1,000 men (27 below the Madhya Pradesh figure of 931).
37.3% of the population were recorded as workers, 6.2 points below the Madhya Pradesh rate. Female work participation was 20.8%, 11.8 points below the state figure.
Ashoknagar contained 4 towns. The largest was Ashoknagar (M), with 81,828 people. That put 18.2% of the district in urban areas, 9.4 points below the Madhya Pradesh share of 27.6%.
Towns in Ashoknagar
Ashoknagar has 4 census towns. The largest are listed below.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ashoknagar (M) | 81,828 | 76.89% | 914 / 1000 |
| Chanderi (M) | 33,081 | 79.28% | 910 / 1000 |
| Mungaoli (NP) | 20,689 | 81.38% | 903 / 1000 |
| Isagarh (NP) | 12,583 | 78.50% | 903 / 1000 |