Bilaspur

With 26,63,629 people at the 2011 Census, Bilaspur was the 152nd most populous of India's 640 districts and the 3rd most populous of Chhattisgarh's 18. That is 10.4% of everyone living in Chhattisgarh at the time.

Literacy stood at 70.78%, 2.2 points below the national 72.98% — 0.5 points above the Chhattisgarh average. That ranked it 358th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 21.8 points, 5.6 points above the national gap of 16.3.

The sex ratio was 971 women per 1,000 men (20 below the Chhattisgarh figure of 991). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 961, 43 above the national 918.

Bilaspur contained 21 towns — 17 with a municipal body of some kind, and 4 classed as census towns, meaning they met the census's urban test without having one. The largest urban settlement was the part of Bilaspur (M Corp.) falling inside the district, with 3,27,163 people. That put 25.5% of the district in urban areas, 2.3 points above the Chhattisgarh share of 23.2%.