Dharwad
Population
- Population
- 18.47 LIndia 121.09 Cr
- Urban %
- 56.82%India 31.14%
Literacy
- Literacy
- 80.00%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 86.37%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 73.46%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 12.91 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 971 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 944 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 11.91%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 9.63%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 4.74%India 8.63%
- Household
- 4.83India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 42.49%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 26.50%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 88.04%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 57.51%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.
Dharwad in context
With 18,47,023 people at the 2011 Census, Dharwad was the 256th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 12th most populous of Karnataka's 30. That is 3.0% of everyone living in Karnataka at the time.
Literacy stood at 80.00%, 7.0 points above the national 72.98% — 4.6 points above the Karnataka average. That ranked it 159th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 12.9 points, 3.3 points below the national gap of 16.3.
The sex ratio was 971 women per 1,000 men (level with the Karnataka figure of 973). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 944, 26 above the national 918.
42.5% of the population were recorded as workers, 3.1 points below the Karnataka rate. Female work participation was 26.5%, 5.4 points below the state figure.
Dharwad contained 6 towns. The largest was Hubli-Dharwad (M Corp.), with 9,43,788 people. That put 56.8% of the district in urban areas, 18.1 points above the Karnataka share of 38.7%.
Towns in Dharwad
Dharwad has 6 census towns. The largest are listed below.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hubli-Dharwad (M Corp.) | 9.44 L | 86.79% | 989 / 1000 |
| Annigeri (TMC) | 28,267 | 76.23% | 995 / 1000 |
| Navalgund (TMC) | 24,613 | 76.50% | 974 / 1000 |
| Kundgol (TP) | 18,726 | 76.96% | 987 / 1000 |
| Alnavar (TP) | 17,228 | 83.48% | 984 / 1000 |
| Kalghatgi (TP) | 16,917 | 79.13% | 984 / 1000 |