East Godavari
Population
- Population
- 51.54 LIndia 121.09 Cr
- Urban %
- 25.49%India 31.14%
Literacy
- Literacy
- 70.99%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 74.51%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 67.52%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 6.99 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 1006 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 968 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 10.13%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 18.34%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 4.14%India 8.63%
- Household
- 3.61India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 40.62%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 21.20%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 83.49%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 59.38%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.
East Godavari in context
With 51,54,296 people at the 2011 Census, East Godavari was the 19th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 2nd most populous of Andhra Pradesh's 23. That is 6.1% of everyone living in Andhra Pradesh at the time.
Literacy stood at 70.99%, 2.0 points below the national 72.98% — 4.0 points above the Andhra Pradesh average. That ranked it 351st of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 7.0 points, 9.3 points below the national gap of 16.3.
The sex ratio was 1006 women per 1,000 men (13 above the Andhra Pradesh figure of 993) — one of the minority of districts where women outnumbered men. Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 968, 50 above the national 918.
40.6% of the population were recorded as workers, 6.0 points below the Andhra Pradesh rate. Female work participation was 21.2%, 15.0 points below the state figure.
East Godavari contained 19 towns — 9 with a municipal body of some kind, and 10 classed as census towns, meaning they met the census's urban test without having one. The largest was Rajahmundry (M Corp.), with 3,41,831 people. That put 25.5% of the district in urban areas, 7.9 points below the Andhra Pradesh share of 33.4%.
Towns in East Godavari
East Godavari has 19 census towns. The largest are listed below.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rajahmundry (M Corp.) | 3.42 L | 84.12% | 1026 / 1000 |
| Kakinada (M Corp.) | 3.13 L | 80.62% | 1048 / 1000 |
| Samalkot (M) | 56,864 | 74.58% | 1023 / 1000 |
| Mandapeta (M) | 53,633 | 76.84% | 1032 / 1000 |
| Tuni (M) | 53,425 | 77.40% | 1061 / 1000 |
| Amalapuram (M) | 53,231 | 89.78% | 1010 / 1000 |
| Pithapuram (M) | 52,360 | 75.00% | 1022 / 1000 |
| Peddapuram (M) | 49,477 | 76.14% | 1033 / 1000 |