Bellary
Population
- Population
- 24.53 LIndia 121.09 Cr
- Urban %
- 37.52%India 31.14%
Literacy
- Literacy
- 67.43%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 76.64%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 58.09%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 18.55 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 983 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 960 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 14.03%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 21.10%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 18.41%India 8.63%
- Household
- 5.01India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 45.54%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 34.03%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 86.79%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 54.46%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.
Bellary in context
With 24,52,595 people at the 2011 Census, Bellary was the 181st most populous of India's 640 districts and the 6th most populous of Karnataka's 30. That is 4.0% of everyone living in Karnataka at the time.
Literacy stood at 67.43%, 5.5 points below the national 72.98% — 7.9 points below the Karnataka average. That ranked it 437th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 18.6 points, 2.3 points above the national gap of 16.3.
The sex ratio was 983 women per 1,000 men (10 above the Karnataka figure of 973). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 960, 42 above the national 918.
Bellary contained 13 towns — 10 with a municipal body of some kind, and 3 classed as census towns, meaning they met the census's urban test without having one. The largest was Bellary (M Corp.), with 4,10,445 people. That put 37.5% of the district in urban areas, 1.1 points below the Karnataka share of 38.7%.
Towns in Bellary
Bellary has 13 census towns. The largest are listed below.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bellary (M Corp.) | 4.10 L | 78.38% | 991 / 1000 |
| Hospet (CMC) | 2.06 L | 79.30% | 1008 / 1000 |
| Siruguppa (TMC) | 52,492 | 67.88% | 996 / 1000 |
| Kampli (TMC) | 39,307 | 72.44% | 1018 / 1000 |
| Sandur (TMC) | 37,431 | 78.01% | 955 / 1000 |
| Hoovina Hadagalli (TMC) | 27,967 | 77.17% | 993 / 1000 |
| Kudligi (TP) | 26,680 | 77.54% | 987 / 1000 |
| Kotturu (TP) | 26,289 | 83.80% | 993 / 1000 |