Dhar

With 21,85,793 people at the 2011 Census, Dhar was the 209th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 7th most populous of Madhya Pradesh's 50. That is 3.0% of everyone living in Madhya Pradesh at the time.

Literacy stood at 59.00%, 14.0 points below the national 72.98% — 10.3 points below the Madhya Pradesh average. That ranked it 576th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 20.2 points, 3.9 points above the national gap of 16.3.

The sex ratio was 964 women per 1,000 men (33 above the Madhya Pradesh figure of 931).

47.0% of the population were recorded as workers, 3.6 points above the Madhya Pradesh rate. Female work participation was 40.2%, 7.5 points above the state figure.

Dhar contained 13 towns — 11 with a municipal body of some kind, and 2 classed as census towns, meaning they met the census's urban test without having one. The largest was Pithampur (M), with 1,26,200 people. That put 18.9% of the district in urban areas, 8.7 points below the Madhya Pradesh share of 27.6%.