Burhanpur
Population
- Population
- 7.58 LIndia 121.09 Cr
- Urban %
- 34.35%India 31.14%
Literacy
- Literacy
- 64.36%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 71.80%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 56.58%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 15.22 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 951 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 924 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 16.21%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 8.48%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 30.36%India 8.63%
- Household
- 5.18India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 43.33%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 31.52%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 83.72%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 56.67%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.
Burhanpur in context
With 7,57,847 people at the 2011 Census, Burhanpur was the 490th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 44th most populous of Madhya Pradesh's 50. That is 1.0% of everyone living in Madhya Pradesh at the time.
Literacy stood at 64.36%, 8.6 points below the national 72.98% — 5.0 points below the Madhya Pradesh average. That ranked it 496th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 15.2 points, 1.0 points below the national gap of 16.3.
The sex ratio was 951 women per 1,000 men (20 above the Madhya Pradesh figure of 931).
Burhanpur contained 3 towns. The largest was Burhanpur (M Corp.), with 2,10,886 people. That put 34.4% of the district in urban areas, 6.7 points above the Madhya Pradesh share of 27.6%.
Towns in Burhanpur
Burhanpur has 3 census towns. The largest are listed below.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Burhanpur (M Corp.) | 2.11 L | 80.82% | 949 / 1000 |
| Nepanagar (M) | 29,682 | 77.71% | 957 / 1000 |
| Shahpur (NP) | 19,719 | 70.21% | 938 / 1000 |