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Uttar Pradesh districts

Uttar Pradesh

Chitrakoot

9,91,730
people at the 2011 Census · 5.28 L male, 4.64 L female

Population

Population
9.92 LIndia 121.09 Cr
Urban %
9.71%India 31.14%

Literacy

Literacy
65.05%India 72.98%
Male Lit.
75.80%India 80.88%
Female Lit.
52.74%India 64.63%
Lit. Gap
23.06 ppIndia 16.25 pp

Society

Sex Ratio
879 / 1000India 943 / 1000
Child Sex Ratio
907 / 1000India 918 / 1000
Under 7
17.68%India 13.59%
SC %
26.89%India 16.63%
ST %
0.04%India 8.63%
Household
5.90India 4.85

Work

Workers
39.75%India 39.80%
Female Work
30.00%India 25.52%
Main Workers
71.69%India 75.24%
Non-Workers
60.25%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.

Chitrakoot in context

With 9,91,730 people at the 2011 Census, Chitrakoot was the 449th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 70th most populous of Uttar Pradesh's 71. That is 0.5% of everyone living in Uttar Pradesh at the time.

Literacy stood at 65.05%, 7.9 points below the national 72.98% — 2.6 points below the Uttar Pradesh average. That ranked it 481st of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 23.1 points, 6.8 points above the national gap of 16.3.

The sex ratio was 879 women per 1,000 men (33 below the Uttar Pradesh figure of 912).

39.8% of the population were recorded as workers, 6.8 points above the Uttar Pradesh rate. Female work participation was 30.0%, 13.3 points above the state figure.

Chitrakoot contained 4 towns — 3 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 Chitrakoot Dham (Karwi) (NPP), with 57,402 people. That put 9.7% of the district in urban areas, 12.6 points below the Uttar Pradesh share of 22.3%.

Towns in Chitrakoot

Chitrakoot has 4 census towns. The largest are listed below.

Largest towns in Chitrakoot by 2011 Census population.
TownPopulationLiteracySex ratio
Chitrakoot Dham (Karwi) (NPP)57,40278.50%887 / 1000
Manikpur Sarhat (NP)16,46771.64%914 / 1000
Rajapur (NP)13,43970.34%885 / 1000
Karwi Mafi (CT)9,02479.14%890 / 1000