Dhamtari

With 7,99,781 people at the 2011 Census, Dhamtari was the 485th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 13th most populous of Chhattisgarh's 18. That is 3.1% of everyone living in Chhattisgarh at the time.

Literacy stood at 78.36%, 5.4 points above the national 72.98% — 8.1 points above the Chhattisgarh average. That ranked it 190th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 18.7 points, 2.4 points above the national gap of 16.3.

The sex ratio was 1010 women per 1,000 men (19 above the Chhattisgarh figure of 991) — one of the minority of districts where women outnumbered men. Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 973, 55 above the national 918.

Dhamtari contained 6 towns. The largest was Dhamtari (M), with 89,860 people. That put 18.6% of the district in urban areas, 4.6 points below the Chhattisgarh share of 23.2%.