Bargarh

With 14,81,255 people at the 2011 Census, Bargarh was the 338th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 13th most populous of Odisha's 30. That is 3.5% of everyone living in Odisha at the time.

Literacy stood at 74.62%, 1.6 points above the national 72.98% — 1.8 points above the Odisha average. That ranked it 268th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 18.3 points, 2.1 points above the national gap of 16.3.

The sex ratio was 977 women per 1,000 men (level with the Odisha figure of 979). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 957, 39 above the national 918.

51.5% of the population were recorded as workers, 9.7 points above the Odisha rate. Female work participation was 39.5%, 12.3 points above the state figure.

Bargarh contained 8 towns — 3 with a municipal body of some kind, and 5 classed as census towns, meaning they met the census's urban test without having one. The largest was Bargarh (M), with 80,625 people. That put 10.1% of the district in urban areas, 6.6 points below the Odisha share of 16.7%.