Damoh
Population
- Population
- 12.64 LIndia 121.09 Cr
- Urban %
- 19.82%India 31.14%
Literacy
- Literacy
- 69.73%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 79.27%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 59.22%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 20.05 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 910 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 928 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 15.18%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 19.49%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 13.15%India 8.63%
- Household
- 4.25India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 45.45%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 34.35%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 67.87%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 54.55%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.
Damoh in context
With 12,64,219 people at the 2011 Census, Damoh was the 382nd most populous of India's 640 districts and the 31st most populous of Madhya Pradesh's 50. That is 1.7% of everyone living in Madhya Pradesh at the time.
Literacy stood at 69.73%, 3.3 points below the national 72.98% — level with the Madhya Pradesh average. That ranked it 383rd of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 20.1 points, 3.8 points above the national gap of 16.3.
The sex ratio was 910 women per 1,000 men (21 below the Madhya Pradesh figure of 931).
Damoh contained 9 towns — 5 with a municipal body of some kind, and 4 classed as census towns, meaning they met the census's urban test without having one. The largest was Damoh (M), with 1,25,101 people. That put 19.8% of the district in urban areas, 7.8 points below the Madhya Pradesh share of 27.6%.
Towns in Damoh
Damoh has 9 census towns. The largest are listed below.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Damoh (M) | 1.25 L | 86.18% | 916 / 1000 |
| Hatta (M) | 32,465 | 84.74% | 894 / 1000 |
| Patharia (NP) | 21,026 | 82.39% | 910 / 1000 |
| Hindoria (NP) | 16,001 | 78.88% | 927 / 1000 |
| Tendukheda (NP) | 14,399 | 76.42% | 917 / 1000 |
| Hirdepur (CT) | 8,100 | 86.48% | 900 / 1000 |
| Jabera (CT) | 6,806 | 80.33% | 901 / 1000 |
| Narsinghgarh (CT) | 6,735 | 76.48% | 755 / 1000 |