Bastar
Population
- Population
- 14.13 LIndia 121.09 Cr
- Urban %
- 13.69%India 31.14%
Literacy
- Literacy
- 54.40%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 64.82%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 44.26%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 20.56 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 1023 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 994 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 15.33%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 2.69%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 65.93%India 8.63%
- Household
- 4.54India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 51.41%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 45.08%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 54.34%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 48.59%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.
Bastar in context
With 14,13,199 people at the 2011 Census, Bastar was the 348th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 8th most populous of Chhattisgarh's 18. That is 5.5% of everyone living in Chhattisgarh at the time.
Literacy stood at 54.40%, 18.6 points below the national 72.98% — 15.9 points below the Chhattisgarh average. That ranked it 610th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 20.6 points, 4.3 points above the national gap of 16.3.
The sex ratio was 1023 women per 1,000 men (32 above the Chhattisgarh figure of 991) — one of the minority of districts where women outnumbered men. Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 994, 76 above the national 918.
51.4% of the population were recorded as workers, 3.7 points above the Chhattisgarh rate. Female work participation was 45.1%, 5.4 points above the state figure.
Bastar contained 6 towns. The largest was Jagdalpur (M Corp.), with 1,25,463 people. That put 13.7% of the district in urban areas, 9.5 points below the Chhattisgarh share of 23.2%.
Towns in Bastar
Bastar has 6 census towns. The largest are listed below.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jagdalpur (M Corp.) | 1.25 L | 84.91% | 961 / 1000 |
| Kondagaon (M) | 30,921 | 79.39% | 1015 / 1000 |
| Keskal (NP) | 11,115 | 84.25% | 962 / 1000 |
| Bastar (NP) | 10,048 | 64.39% | 1065 / 1000 |
| Visrampuree (NP) | 9,641 | 61.64% | 1065 / 1000 |
| Farasgaon (NP) | 6,306 | 81.73% | 910 / 1000 |