Bangalore
Population
- Population
- 96.22 LIndia 121.09 Cr
- Urban %
- 90.94%India 31.14%
Literacy
- Literacy
- 87.67%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 91.01%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 84.01%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 7.00 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 916 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 944 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 10.94%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 12.46%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 1.98%India 8.63%
- Household
- 4.02India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 44.14%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 24.61%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 90.85%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 55.86%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.
Bangalore in context
With 96,21,551 people at the 2011 Census, Bangalore was the 3rd most populous of India's 640 districts and the most populous of Karnataka's 30. That is 15.7% of everyone living in Karnataka at the time.
Literacy stood at 87.67%, 14.7 points above the national 72.98% — 12.3 points above the Karnataka average. That ranked it 41st of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 7.0 points, 9.3 points below the national gap of 16.3.
The sex ratio was 916 women per 1,000 men (57 below the Karnataka figure of 973). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 944, 26 above the national 918.
Female work participation was 24.6%, 7.3 points below the state figure.
Bangalore contained 16 towns — 2 with a municipal body of some kind, and 14 classed as census towns, meaning they met the census's urban test without having one. The largest urban settlement was the part of BBMP (M Corp.) falling inside the district, with 84,43,675 people. That put 90.9% of the district in urban areas, 52.3 points above the Karnataka share of 38.7%.
Towns in Bangalore
Bangalore has 16 census towns. The largest are listed below.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| BBMP (M Corp.) (Part) | 84.44 L | 88.71% | 923 / 1000 |
| Anekal (TMC) | 44,260 | 81.78% | 964 / 1000 |
| Hebbagodi (CT) | 34,827 | 91.22% | 677 / 1000 |
| Konappana Agrahara (CT) | 20,622 | 87.44% | 761 / 1000 |
| Attibele (CT) | 20,532 | 87.40% | 949 / 1000 |
| Jigani (CT) | 17,036 | 86.10% | 705 / 1000 |
| Bommasandra (CT) | 15,254 | 89.45% | 728 / 1000 |
| Chikkabanavara (CT) | 14,409 | 87.55% | 918 / 1000 |