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Odisha districts

Odisha

Balangir

16,48,997
people at the 2011 Census · 8.30 L male, 8.19 L female

Population

Population
16.49 LIndia 121.09 Cr
Urban %
11.97%India 31.14%

Literacy

Literacy
64.72%India 72.98%
Male Lit.
75.85%India 80.88%
Female Lit.
53.50%India 64.63%
Lit. Gap
22.35 ppIndia 16.25 pp

Society

Sex Ratio
987 / 1000India 943 / 1000
Child Sex Ratio
955 / 1000India 918 / 1000
Under 7
13.12%India 13.59%
SC %
17.88%India 16.63%
ST %
21.05%India 8.63%
Household
3.98India 4.85

Work

Workers
43.70%India 39.80%
Female Work
30.61%India 25.52%
Main Workers
55.82%India 75.24%
Non-Workers
56.30%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.

Balangir in context

With 16,48,997 people at the 2011 Census, Balangir was the 301st most populous of India's 640 districts and the 10th most populous of Odisha's 30. That is 3.9% of everyone living in Odisha at the time.

Literacy stood at 64.72%, 8.3 points below the national 72.98% — 8.2 points below the Odisha average. That ranked it 486th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 22.4 points, 6.1 points above the national gap of 16.3.

The sex ratio was 987 women per 1,000 men (8 above the Odisha figure of 979). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 955, 37 above the national 918.

Balangir contained 8 towns — 4 with a municipal body of some kind, and 4 classed as census towns, meaning they met the census's urban test without having one. The largest was Balangir (M), with 98,238 people. That put 12.0% of the district in urban areas, 4.7 points below the Odisha share of 16.7%.

Towns in Balangir

Balangir has 8 census towns. The largest are listed below.

Largest towns in Balangir by 2011 Census population.
TownPopulationLiteracySex ratio
Balangir (M)98,23886.27%942 / 1000
Titlagarh (NAC)31,25882.14%955 / 1000
Kantabanji (NAC)21,81978.53%938 / 1000
Patnagarh (NAC)21,02479.70%966 / 1000
Loisinga (CT)6,22080.79%1008 / 1000
Bangomunda (CT)5,75968.88%1055 / 1000
Badmal (CT)5,43195.68%803 / 1000
Tushura (CT)4,82385.54%949 / 1000