Baleshwar
Population
- Population
- 23.21 LIndia 121.09 Cr
- Urban %
- 10.92%India 31.14%
Literacy
- Literacy
- 79.79%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 87.00%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 72.28%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 14.72 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 957 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 943 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 12.44%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 20.62%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 11.88%India 8.63%
- Household
- 4.35India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 40.19%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 21.92%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 66.27%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 59.81%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.
Baleshwar in context
With 23,20,529 people at the 2011 Census, Baleshwar was the 195th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 4th most populous of Odisha's 30. That is 5.5% of everyone living in Odisha at the time.
Literacy stood at 79.79%, 6.8 points above the national 72.98% — 6.9 points above the Odisha average. That ranked it 165th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 14.7 points, 1.5 points below the national gap of 16.3.
The sex ratio was 957 women per 1,000 men (22 below the Odisha figure of 979). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 943, 25 above the national 918.
Female work participation was 21.9%, 5.2 points below the state figure.
Baleshwar contained 5 towns. The largest was Baleshwar (M), with 1,18,162 people. That put 10.9% of the district in urban areas, 5.8 points below the Odisha share of 16.7%.
Towns in Baleshwar
Baleshwar has 5 census towns. The largest are listed below.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Baleshwar (M) | 1.18 L | 88.09% | 962 / 1000 |
| Remuna (NAC) | 33,378 | 78.44% | 957 / 1000 |
| Soro (NAC) | 32,531 | 84.57% | 956 / 1000 |
| Jaleshwar (NAC) | 25,747 | 81.46% | 966 / 1000 |
| Nilagiri (NAC) | 17,264 | 77.46% | 956 / 1000 |