Durg
Population
- Population
- 33.44 LIndia 121.09 Cr
- Urban %
- 38.42%India 31.14%
Literacy
- Literacy
- 79.06%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 87.82%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 70.23%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 17.59 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 988 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 963 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 12.88%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 13.70%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 11.88%India 8.63%
- Household
- 4.77India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 44.76%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 34.61%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 80.62%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 55.24%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.
Durg in context
With 33,43,872 people at the 2011 Census, Durg was the 100th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 2nd most populous of Chhattisgarh's 18. That is 13.1% of everyone living in Chhattisgarh at the time.
Literacy stood at 79.06%, 6.1 points above the national 72.98% — 8.8 points above the Chhattisgarh average. That ranked it 177th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 17.6 points, 1.3 points above the national gap of 16.3.
The sex ratio was 988 women per 1,000 men (level with the Chhattisgarh figure of 991). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 963, 45 above the national 918.
Female work participation was 34.6%, 5.1 points below the state figure.
Durg contained 30 towns. The largest urban settlement was the part of Bhilai Nagar (M Corp.) falling inside the district, with 6,16,577 people. That put 38.4% of the district in urban areas, 15.2 points above the Chhattisgarh share of 23.2%.
Towns in Durg
Durg has 30 census towns. The largest are listed below.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bhilai Nagar (M Corp.) (Part) | 6.17 L | 86.81% | 941 / 1000 |
| Durg (M Corp.) | 2.69 L | 87.36% | 967 / 1000 |
| Bhilai Charoda (M) (Part) | 85,310 | 86.03% | 963 / 1000 |
| Dalli-Rajhara (M) | 44,363 | 82.97% | 996 / 1000 |
| Bemetara (M) | 28,536 | 80.97% | 998 / 1000 |
| Kumhari (M) (Part) | 26,444 | 80.59% | 941 / 1000 |
| Balod (M) | 23,648 | 88.06% | 1004 / 1000 |
| Jamul (M) (Part) | 22,811 | 85.47% | 932 / 1000 |