Chhatarpur
Population
- Population
- 17.62 LIndia 121.09 Cr
- Urban %
- 22.64%India 31.14%
Literacy
- Literacy
- 63.74%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 72.66%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 53.59%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 19.07 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 883 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 900 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 16.05%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 23.00%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 4.18%India 8.63%
- Household
- 4.95India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 42.66%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 32.71%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 73.67%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 57.34%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.
Chhatarpur in context
With 17,62,375 people at the 2011 Census, Chhatarpur was the 272nd most populous of India's 640 districts and the 13th most populous of Madhya Pradesh's 50. That is 2.4% of everyone living in Madhya Pradesh at the time.
Literacy stood at 63.74%, 9.2 points below the national 72.98% — 5.6 points below the Madhya Pradesh average. That ranked it 509th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 19.1 points, 2.8 points above the national gap of 16.3.
The sex ratio was 883 women per 1,000 men (48 below the Madhya Pradesh figure of 931). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 900, 18 below the national 918.
Chhatarpur contained 16 towns — 15 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 Chhatarpur (M), with 1,33,464 people. That put 22.6% of the district in urban areas, 5.0 points below the Madhya Pradesh share of 27.6%.
Towns in Chhatarpur
Chhatarpur has 16 census towns. The largest are listed below.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chhatarpur (M) | 1.33 L | 83.49% | 893 / 1000 |
| Nowgong (M) | 40,580 | 87.03% | 881 / 1000 |
| Khajuraho (NP) | 24,481 | 70.91% | 889 / 1000 |
| Maharajpur (NP) | 23,328 | 70.71% | 901 / 1000 |
| Laundi (NP) | 22,002 | 77.29% | 874 / 1000 |
| Bijawar (NP) | 20,513 | 74.32% | 893 / 1000 |
| Harpalpur (NP) | 18,529 | 83.14% | 915 / 1000 |
| Bada Malhera (NP) | 18,335 | 75.38% | 899 / 1000 |