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Maharashtra districts

Maharashtra

Aurangabad

37,01,282
people at the 2011 Census · 19.24 L male, 17.77 L female

Population

Population
37.01 LIndia 121.09 Cr
Urban %
43.77%India 31.14%

Literacy

Literacy
79.02%India 72.98%
Male Lit.
87.37%India 80.88%
Female Lit.
70.08%India 64.63%
Lit. Gap
17.29 ppIndia 16.25 pp

Society

Sex Ratio
923 / 1000India 943 / 1000
Child Sex Ratio
858 / 1000India 918 / 1000
Under 7
14.39%India 13.59%
SC %
14.57%India 16.63%
ST %
3.87%India 8.63%
Household
4.92India 4.85

Work

Workers
42.55%India 39.80%
Female Work
31.47%India 25.52%
Main Workers
91.85%India 75.24%
Non-Workers
57.45%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.

Aurangabad in context

With 37,01,282 people at the 2011 Census, Aurangabad was the 71st most populous of India's 640 districts and the 10th most populous of Maharashtra's 35. That is 3.3% of everyone living in Maharashtra at the time.

Literacy stood at 79.02%, 6.0 points above the national 72.98% — 3.3 points below the Maharashtra average. That ranked it 179th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 17.3 points, 1.0 points above the national gap of 16.3.

The sex ratio was 923 women per 1,000 men (6 below the Maharashtra figure of 929). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 858, 60 below the national 918.

Aurangabad contained 16 towns — 8 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 Aurangabad (M Corp.), with 11,75,116 people. That put 43.8% of the district in urban areas, 1.4 points below the Maharashtra share of 45.2%.

Towns in Aurangabad

Aurangabad has 16 census towns. The largest are listed below.

Largest towns in Aurangabad by 2011 Census population.
TownPopulationLiteracySex ratio
Aurangabad (M Corp.)11.75 L87.49%929 / 1000
Wadgaon Kolhati (CT)65,62091.86%841 / 1000
Sillod (M Cl)58,23083.32%936 / 1000
Ranjangaon (s) (CT)42,87786.17%863 / 1000
Paithan (M Cl)41,53681.59%953 / 1000
Vaijapur (M Cl)41,29683.90%944 / 1000
Kannad (M Cl)40,75984.45%928 / 1000
Satara (CT)39,97388.42%899 / 1000
All 16 towns in Aurangabad