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Karnataka districts

Karnataka

Bijapur

21,77,331
people at the 2011 Census · 11.11 L male, 10.66 L female

Population

Population
21.77 LIndia 121.09 Cr
Urban %
23.05%India 31.14%

Literacy

Literacy
67.15%India 72.98%
Male Lit.
77.21%India 80.88%
Female Lit.
56.72%India 64.63%
Lit. Gap
20.49 ppIndia 16.25 pp

Society

Sex Ratio
960 / 1000India 943 / 1000
Child Sex Ratio
931 / 1000India 918 / 1000
Under 7
14.62%India 13.59%
SC %
20.34%India 16.63%
ST %
1.81%India 8.63%
Household
5.33India 4.85

Work

Workers
42.61%India 39.80%
Female Work
32.60%India 25.52%
Main Workers
81.93%India 75.24%
Non-Workers
57.39%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 21,77,331 people at the 2011 Census, Bijapur was the 210th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 7th most populous of Karnataka's 30. That is 3.6% of everyone living in Karnataka at the time.

Literacy stood at 67.15%, 5.8 points below the national 72.98% — 8.2 points below the Karnataka average. That ranked it 445th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 20.5 points, 4.2 points above the national gap of 16.3.

The sex ratio was 960 women per 1,000 men (13 below the Karnataka figure of 973).

42.6% of the population were recorded as workers, 3.0 points below the Karnataka rate.

Bijapur contained 6 towns. The largest was Bijapur (CMC), with 3,27,427 people. That put 23.1% of the district in urban areas, 15.6 points below the Karnataka share of 38.7%.

Towns in Bijapur

Bijapur has 6 census towns. The largest are listed below.

Largest towns in Bijapur by 2011 Census population.
TownPopulationLiteracySex ratio
Bijapur (CMC)3.27 L83.21%982 / 1000
Indi (TMC)38,21776.53%957 / 1000
Sindgi (TMC)37,22677.63%972 / 1000
Muddebihal (TMC)34,21783.51%991 / 1000
Basavana Bagevadi (TMC)33,19872.62%983 / 1000
Talikota (TMC)31,69378.51%988 / 1000