Belgaum
Population
- Population
- 47.80 LIndia 121.09 Cr
- Urban %
- 25.34%India 31.14%
Literacy
- Literacy
- 73.48%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 82.20%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 64.58%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 17.62 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 973 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 934 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 13.10%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 12.08%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 6.22%India 8.63%
- Household
- 4.86India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 44.05%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 31.11%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 82.37%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 55.95%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.
Belgaum in context
With 47,79,661 people at the 2011 Census, Belgaum was the 25th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 2nd most populous of Karnataka's 30. That is 7.8% of everyone living in Karnataka at the time.
Literacy stood at 73.48%, 0.5 points above the national 72.98% — 1.9 points below the Karnataka average. That ranked it 285th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 17.6 points, 1.4 points above the national gap of 16.3.
The sex ratio was 973 women per 1,000 men (level with the Karnataka figure of 973). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 934, 16 above the national 918.
Belgaum contained 31 towns — 18 with a municipal body of some kind, and 13 classed as census towns, meaning they met the census's urban test without having one. The largest was Belgaum (M Corp.), with 4,88,157 people. That put 25.3% of the district in urban areas, 13.3 points below the Karnataka share of 38.7%.
Towns in Belgaum
Belgaum has 31 census towns. The largest are listed below.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Belgaum (M Corp.) | 4.88 L | 89.82% | 988 / 1000 |
| Gokak (CMC) | 79,121 | 82.04% | 997 / 1000 |
| Nipani (CMC) | 62,865 | 85.83% | 1006 / 1000 |
| Bail Hongal (TMC) | 49,182 | 85.25% | 1005 / 1000 |
| Athni (TMC) | 45,858 | 84.03% | 992 / 1000 |
| Saundatti-Yellamma (TMC) | 41,215 | 77.06% | 1002 / 1000 |
| Chikodi (TMC) | 38,307 | 85.41% | 989 / 1000 |
| Sankeshwar (TMC) | 34,637 | 82.95% | 993 / 1000 |