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Chhattisgarh districts

Chhattisgarh

Bijapur

2,55,230
people at the 2011 Census · 1.29 L male, 1.27 L female

Population

Population
2.55 LIndia 121.09 Cr
Urban %
11.60%India 31.14%

Literacy

Literacy
40.86%India 72.98%
Male Lit.
50.46%India 80.88%
Female Lit.
31.11%India 64.63%
Lit. Gap
19.35 ppIndia 16.25 pp

Society

Sex Ratio
984 / 1000India 943 / 1000
Child Sex Ratio
978 / 1000India 918 / 1000
Under 7
16.65%India 13.59%
SC %
3.97%India 16.63%
ST %
80.00%India 8.63%
Household
4.66India 4.85

Work

Workers
52.71%India 39.80%
Female Work
49.72%India 25.52%
Main Workers
51.54%India 75.24%
Non-Workers
47.29%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.

Bijapur in context

With 2,55,230 people at the 2011 Census, Bijapur was the 581st most populous of India's 640 districts and the 17th most populous of Chhattisgarh's 18. That is 1.0% of everyone living in Chhattisgarh at the time.

Literacy stood at 40.86%, 32.1 points below the national 72.98% — 29.4 points below the Chhattisgarh average. That ranked it 639th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 19.4 points, 3.1 points above the national gap of 16.3.

The sex ratio was 984 women per 1,000 men (7 below the Chhattisgarh figure of 991). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 978, 60 above the national 918.

52.7% of the population were recorded as workers, 5.0 points above the Chhattisgarh rate. Female work participation was 49.7%, 10.0 points above the state figure.

Bijapur contained 3 towns. The largest was Bijapur (NP), with 16,129 people. That put 11.6% of the district in urban areas, 11.6 points below the Chhattisgarh share of 23.2%.

Towns in Bijapur

Bijapur has 3 census towns. The largest are listed below.

Largest towns in Bijapur by 2011 Census population.
TownPopulationLiteracySex ratio
Bijapur (NP)16,12979.78%836 / 1000
Bhairamgarh (NP)9,02657.66%1054 / 1000
Bhopalpattanam (NP)4,44586.31%1079 / 1000