Bhopal
Population
- Population
- 23.71 LIndia 121.09 Cr
- Urban %
- 80.85%India 31.14%
Literacy
- Literacy
- 80.37%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 85.42%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 74.87%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 10.55 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 918 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 920 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 12.85%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 15.08%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 2.93%India 8.63%
- Household
- 4.73India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 36.59%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 19.60%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 81.39%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 63.41%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.
Bhopal in context
With 23,71,061 people at the 2011 Census, Bhopal was the 189th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 4th most populous of Madhya Pradesh's 50. That is 3.3% of everyone living in Madhya Pradesh at the time.
Literacy stood at 80.37%, 7.4 points above the national 72.98% — 11.1 points above the Madhya Pradesh average. That ranked it 152nd of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 10.6 points, 5.7 points below the national gap of 16.3.
The sex ratio was 918 women per 1,000 men (13 below the Madhya Pradesh figure of 931).
36.6% of the population were recorded as workers, 6.9 points below the Madhya Pradesh rate. Female work participation was 19.6%, 13.0 points below the state figure.
Bhopal contained 3 towns. The largest was Bhopal (M Corp.), with 17,98,218 people. That put 80.8% of the district in urban areas, 53.2 points above the Madhya Pradesh share of 27.6%.
Towns in Bhopal
Bhopal has 3 census towns. The largest are listed below.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bhopal (M Corp.) | 17.98 L | 83.47% | 921 / 1000 |
| Kolar (M) | 87,882 | 84.43% | 923 / 1000 |
| Berasia (M) | 30,951 | 76.57% | 905 / 1000 |