Cuttack
Population
- Population
- 26.24 LIndia 121.09 Cr
- Urban %
- 28.05%India 31.14%
Literacy
- Literacy
- 85.50%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 91.11%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 79.55%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 11.56 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 940 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 914 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 10.36%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 19.00%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 3.57%India 8.63%
- Household
- 4.53India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 35.68%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 13.72%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 74.36%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 64.32%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.
Cuttack in context
With 26,24,470 people at the 2011 Census, Cuttack was the 156th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 2nd most populous of Odisha's 30. That is 6.3% of everyone living in Odisha at the time.
Literacy stood at 85.50%, 12.5 points above the national 72.98% — 12.6 points above the Odisha average. That ranked it 64th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 11.6 points, 4.7 points below the national gap of 16.3.
The sex ratio was 940 women per 1,000 men (39 below the Odisha figure of 979).
35.7% of the population were recorded as workers, 6.1 points below the Odisha rate. Female work participation was 13.7%, 13.4 points below the state figure.
Cuttack contained 11 towns — 4 with a municipal body of some kind, and 7 classed as census towns, meaning they met the census's urban test without having one. The largest was Cuttack (M Corp.), with 6,10,189 people. That put 28.1% of the district in urban areas, 11.4 points above the Odisha share of 16.7%.
Towns in Cuttack
Cuttack has 11 census towns. The largest are listed below.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cuttack (M Corp.) | 6.10 L | 91.00% | 930 / 1000 |
| Choudwar (M) | 42,784 | 90.05% | 905 / 1000 |
| Banki (NAC) | 17,521 | 91.02% | 904 / 1000 |
| Athagad (NAC) | 17,304 | 89.71% | 938 / 1000 |
| Nuapatna (CT) | 8,057 | 83.53% | 915 / 1000 |
| Badamba (Nizigarh) (CT) | 6,284 | 89.68% | 907 / 1000 |
| Belagachhia (CT) | 5,516 | 88.83% | 991 / 1000 |
| Dadhapatna (CT) | 5,005 | 88.82% | 933 / 1000 |