Gajapati

With 5,77,817 people at the 2011 Census, Gajapati was the 533rd most populous of India's 640 districts and the 28th most populous of Odisha's 30. That is 1.4% of everyone living in Odisha at the time.

Literacy stood at 53.49%, 19.5 points below the national 72.98% — 19.4 points below the Odisha average. That ranked it 615th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 21.2 points, 4.9 points above the national gap of 16.3.

The sex ratio was 1043 women per 1,000 men (64 above the Odisha figure of 979) — one of the minority of districts where women outnumbered men. Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 967, 49 above the national 918.

50.9% of the population were recorded as workers, 9.1 points above the Odisha rate. Female work participation was 46.8%, 19.6 points above the state figure.

Gajapati contained 5 towns — 2 with a municipal body of some kind, and 3 classed as census towns, meaning they met the census's urban test without having one. The largest was Paralakhemundi (M), with 44,469 people. That put 12.2% of the district in urban areas, 4.5 points below the Odisha share of 16.7%.