Dakshina Kannada
Population
- Population
- 20.90 LIndia 121.09 Cr
- Urban %
- 47.67%India 31.14%
Literacy
- Literacy
- 88.57%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 93.13%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 84.13%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 9.00 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 1020 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 947 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 9.97%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 7.09%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 3.94%India 8.63%
- Household
- 4.75India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 47.75%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 35.72%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 91.66%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 52.25%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.
Dakshina Kannada in context
With 20,89,649 people at the 2011 Census, Dakshina Kannada was the 221st most populous of India's 640 districts and the 8th most populous of Karnataka's 30. That is 3.4% of everyone living in Karnataka at the time.
Literacy stood at 88.57%, 15.6 points above the national 72.98% — 13.2 points above the Karnataka average. That ranked it 33rd of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 9.0 points, 7.3 points below the national gap of 16.3.
The sex ratio was 1020 women per 1,000 men (47 above the Karnataka figure of 973) — one of the minority of districts where women outnumbered men. Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 947, 29 above the national 918.
Dakshina Kannada contained 41 towns — 8 with a municipal body of some kind, and 33 classed as census towns, meaning they met the census's urban test without having one. The largest was Mangalore (M Corp.), with 4,88,968 people. That put 47.7% of the district in urban areas, 9.0 points above the Karnataka share of 38.7%.
Towns in Dakshina Kannada
Dakshina Kannada has 41 census towns. The largest are listed below.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mangalore (M Corp.) | 4.89 L | 93.72% | 1016 / 1000 |
| Ullal (TMC) | 53,773 | 92.87% | 1025 / 1000 |
| Puttur (TMC) | 53,061 | 92.35% | 1010 / 1000 |
| Bantval (TMC) | 40,155 | 90.81% | 1015 / 1000 |
| Mudbidri (TMC) | 29,431 | 91.85% | 1045 / 1000 |
| Someshwar (CT) | 24,066 | 93.33% | 1034 / 1000 |
| Sulya (TP) | 19,958 | 91.42% | 1058 / 1000 |
| Vittal (CT) | 17,618 | 91.12% | 1000 / 1000 |