Chitradurga

With 16,59,456 people at the 2011 Census, Chitradurga was the 297th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 17th most populous of Karnataka's 30. That is 2.7% of everyone living in Karnataka at the time.

Literacy stood at 73.71%, 0.7 points above the national 72.98% — 1.7 points below the Karnataka average. That ranked it 283rd of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 15.5 points, 0.8 points below the national gap of 16.3.

The sex ratio was 974 women per 1,000 men (level with the Karnataka figure of 973). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 947, 29 above the national 918.

51.6% of the population were recorded as workers, 6.0 points above the Karnataka rate. Female work participation was 41.9%, 10.1 points above the state figure.

Chitradurga 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 Chitradurga (CMC), with 1,40,206 people. That put 19.9% of the district in urban areas, 18.8 points below the Karnataka share of 38.7%.