Buldana
Population
- Population
- 25.86 LIndia 121.09 Cr
- Urban %
- 21.22%India 31.14%
Literacy
- Literacy
- 83.40%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 90.54%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 75.84%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 14.70 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 934 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 855 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 12.84%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 18.21%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 4.83%India 8.63%
- Household
- 4.61India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 47.16%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 38.89%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 90.81%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 52.84%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.
Buldana in context
With 25,86,258 people at the 2011 Census, Buldana was the 159th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 18th most populous of Maharashtra's 35. That is 2.3% of everyone living in Maharashtra at the time.
Literacy stood at 83.40%, 10.4 points above the national 72.98% — 1.1 points above the Maharashtra average. That ranked it 104th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 14.7 points, 1.6 points below the national gap of 16.3.
The sex ratio was 934 women per 1,000 men (5 above the Maharashtra figure of 929). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 855, 63 below the national 918.
47.2% of the population were recorded as workers, 3.2 points above the Maharashtra rate. Female work participation was 38.9%, 7.8 points above the state figure.
Buldana contained 12 towns — 11 with a municipal body of some kind, and 1 classed as census towns, meaning they met the census's urban test without having one. The largest was Khamgaon (M Cl), with 94,191 people. That put 21.2% of the district in urban areas, 24.0 points below the Maharashtra share of 45.2%.
Towns in Buldana
Buldana has 12 census towns. The largest are listed below.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Khamgaon (M Cl) | 94,191 | 91.96% | 947 / 1000 |
| Malkapur (M Cl) | 67,740 | 87.94% | 953 / 1000 |
| Buldana (M Cl) | 67,431 | 90.40% | 954 / 1000 |
| Shegaon (M Cl) | 59,672 | 89.70% | 953 / 1000 |
| Chikhli (M Cl) | 57,889 | 89.28% | 931 / 1000 |
| Mehkar (M Cl) | 45,248 | 86.43% | 944 / 1000 |
| Nandura (M Cl) | 42,167 | 90.04% | 946 / 1000 |
| Deulgaon Raja (M Cl) | 30,827 | 87.73% | 932 / 1000 |