Dindori
Population
- Population
- 7.05 LIndia 121.09 Cr
- Urban %
- 4.59%India 31.14%
Literacy
- Literacy
- 63.90%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 75.47%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 52.41%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 23.06 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 1002 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 970 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 15.87%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 5.65%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 64.69%India 8.63%
- Household
- 4.15India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 55.35%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 52.90%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 64.15%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 44.65%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.
Dindori in context
With 7,04,524 people at the 2011 Census, Dindori was the 501st most populous of India's 640 districts and the 47th most populous of Madhya Pradesh's 50. That is 1.0% of everyone living in Madhya Pradesh at the time.
Literacy stood at 63.90%, 9.1 points below the national 72.98% — 5.4 points below the Madhya Pradesh average. That ranked it 502nd of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 23.1 points, 6.8 points above the national gap of 16.3.
The sex ratio was 1002 women per 1,000 men (71 above the Madhya Pradesh figure of 931) — one of the minority of districts where women outnumbered men. Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 970, 52 above the national 918.
55.4% of the population were recorded as workers, 11.9 points above the Madhya Pradesh rate. Female work participation was 52.9%, 20.3 points above the state figure.
Dindori contained 2 towns. The largest was Dindori (NP), with 21,323 people. That put 4.6% of the district in urban areas, 23.0 points below the Madhya Pradesh share of 27.6%.
Towns in Dindori
Dindori has 2 census towns. The largest are listed below.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dindori (NP) | 21,323 | 84.94% | 963 / 1000 |
| Shahpura (NP) | 10,995 | 84.10% | 944 / 1000 |