Chikkaballapura

With 12,55,104 people at the 2011 Census, Chikkaballapura was the 383rd most populous of India's 640 districts and the 22nd most populous of Karnataka's 30. That is 2.1% of everyone living in Karnataka at the time.

Literacy stood at 69.76%, 3.2 points below the national 72.98% — 5.6 points below the Karnataka average. That ranked it 380th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 16.2 points, level with the national gap of 16.3.

The sex ratio was 972 women per 1,000 men (level with the Karnataka figure of 973). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 953, 35 above the national 918.

51.0% of the population were recorded as workers, 5.4 points above the Karnataka rate. Female work participation was 41.3%, 9.4 points above the state figure.

Chikkaballapura contained 8 towns — 6 with a municipal body of some kind, and 2 classed as census towns, meaning they met the census's urban test without having one. The largest was Chintamani (CMC), with 76,068 people. That put 22.4% of the district in urban areas, 16.3 points below the Karnataka share of 38.7%.