Bijapur
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.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bijapur (CMC) | 3.27 L | 83.21% | 982 / 1000 |
| Indi (TMC) | 38,217 | 76.53% | 957 / 1000 |
| Sindgi (TMC) | 37,226 | 77.63% | 972 / 1000 |
| Muddebihal (TMC) | 34,217 | 83.51% | 991 / 1000 |
| Basavana Bagevadi (TMC) | 33,198 | 72.62% | 983 / 1000 |
| Talikota (TMC) | 31,693 | 78.51% | 988 / 1000 |