Chitrakoot
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.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chitrakoot Dham (Karwi) (NPP) | 57,402 | 78.50% | 887 / 1000 |
| Manikpur Sarhat (NP) | 16,467 | 71.64% | 914 / 1000 |
| Rajapur (NP) | 13,439 | 70.34% | 885 / 1000 |
| Karwi Mafi (CT) | 9,024 | 79.14% | 890 / 1000 |