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Maharashtra districts

Maharashtra

Bhandara

12,00,334
people at the 2011 Census · 6.06 L male, 5.95 L female

Population

Population
12.00 LIndia 121.09 Cr
Urban %
19.48%India 31.14%

Literacy

Literacy
83.76%India 72.98%
Male Lit.
90.35%India 80.88%
Female Lit.
77.08%India 64.63%
Lit. Gap
13.27 ppIndia 16.25 pp

Society

Sex Ratio
982 / 1000India 943 / 1000
Child Sex Ratio
950 / 1000India 918 / 1000
Under 7
10.50%India 13.59%
SC %
16.69%India 16.63%
ST %
7.41%India 8.63%
Household
4.32India 4.85

Work

Workers
49.76%India 39.80%
Female Work
42.41%India 25.52%
Main Workers
69.28%India 75.24%
Non-Workers
50.24%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.

Bhandara in context

With 12,00,334 people at the 2011 Census, Bhandara was the 397th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 31st most populous of Maharashtra's 35. That is 1.1% of everyone living in Maharashtra at the time.

Literacy stood at 83.76%, 10.8 points above the national 72.98% — 1.4 points above the Maharashtra average. That ranked it 96th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 13.3 points, 3.0 points below the national gap of 16.3.

The sex ratio was 982 women per 1,000 men (53 above the Maharashtra figure of 929). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 950, 32 above the national 918.

49.8% of the population were recorded as workers, 5.8 points above the Maharashtra rate. Female work participation was 42.4%, 11.3 points above the state figure.

Bhandara contained 12 towns — 3 with a municipal body of some kind, and 9 classed as census towns, meaning they met the census's urban test without having one. The largest was Bhandara (M Cl), with 91,845 people. That put 19.5% of the district in urban areas, 25.7 points below the Maharashtra share of 45.2%.

Towns in Bhandara

Bhandara has 12 census towns. The largest are listed below.

Largest towns in Bhandara by 2011 Census population.
TownPopulationLiteracySex ratio
Bhandara (M Cl)91,84591.95%979 / 1000
Tumsar (M Cl)44,86991.49%988 / 1000
Pauni (M Cl)22,82186.07%982 / 1000
Sakoli (CT)14,63690.91%980 / 1000
Warthi (CT)13,05890.75%970 / 1000
Ganeshpur (CT)9,19292.61%961 / 1000
Sawari Jawharnagar (CT)8,77090.70%974 / 1000
Murmadi (CT)7,57693.17%962 / 1000
All 12 towns in Bhandara