Gadchiroli

With 10,72,942 people at the 2011 Census, Gadchiroli was the 424th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 34th most populous of Maharashtra's 35. That is 1.0% of everyone living in Maharashtra at the time.

Literacy stood at 74.36%, 1.4 points above the national 72.98% — 8.0 points below the Maharashtra average. That ranked it 273rd of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 16.0 points, level with the national gap of 16.3.

The sex ratio was 982 women per 1,000 men (53 above the Maharashtra figure of 929). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 961, 43 above the national 918.

54.5% of the population were recorded as workers, 10.5 points above the Maharashtra rate. Female work participation was 49.1%, 18.0 points above the state figure.

Gadchiroli contained 6 towns — 2 with a municipal body of some kind, and 4 classed as census towns, meaning they met the census's urban test without having one. The largest was Gadchiroli (M Cl), with 54,152 people. That put 11.0% of the district in urban areas, 34.2 points below the Maharashtra share of 45.2%.