Bhind

With 17,03,005 people at the 2011 Census, Bhind was the 288th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 15th most populous of Madhya Pradesh's 50. That is 2.3% of everyone living in Madhya Pradesh at the time.

Literacy stood at 75.26%, 2.3 points above the national 72.98% — 5.9 points above the Madhya Pradesh average. That ranked it 257th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 22.3 points, 6.0 points above the national gap of 16.3.

The sex ratio was 837 women per 1,000 men (94 below the Madhya Pradesh figure of 931). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 843, 75 below the national 918.

30.6% of the population were recorded as workers, 12.9 points below the Madhya Pradesh rate. Female work participation was 8.4%, 24.3 points below the state figure.

Bhind contained 12 towns — 11 with a municipal body of some kind, and 1 classed as census towns, meaning they met the census's urban test without having one. The largest was Bhind (M), with 1,97,585 people. That put 25.4% of the district in urban areas, 2.2 points below the Madhya Pradesh share of 27.6%.