Chandrapur

With 22,04,307 people at the 2011 Census, Chandrapur was the 207th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 21st most populous of Maharashtra's 35. That is 2.0% of everyone living in Maharashtra at the time.

Literacy stood at 80.01%, 7.0 points above the national 72.98% — 2.3 points below the Maharashtra average. That ranked it 158th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 13.8 points, 2.4 points below the national gap of 16.3.

The sex ratio was 961 women per 1,000 men (32 above the Maharashtra figure of 929). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 953, 35 above the national 918.

48.0% of the population were recorded as workers, 4.0 points above the Maharashtra rate. Female work participation was 37.9%, 6.8 points above the state figure.

Chandrapur contained 23 towns — 7 with a municipal body of some kind, and 16 classed as census towns, meaning they met the census's urban test without having one. The largest was Chandrapur (M Cl), with 3,20,379 people. That put 35.2% of the district in urban areas, 10.0 points below the Maharashtra share of 45.2%.