Ganjam
Population
- Population
- 35.29 LIndia 121.09 Cr
- Urban %
- 21.76%India 31.14%
Literacy
- Literacy
- 71.09%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 80.99%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 61.13%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 19.86 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 983 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 908 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 11.91%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 19.50%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 3.37%India 8.63%
- Household
- 4.65India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 42.55%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 29.25%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 59.98%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 57.45%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.
Ganjam in context
With 35,29,031 people at the 2011 Census, Ganjam was the 82nd most populous of India's 640 districts and the most populous of Odisha's 30. That is 8.4% of everyone living in Odisha at the time.
Literacy stood at 71.09%, 1.9 points below the national 72.98% — 1.8 points below the Odisha average. That ranked it 348th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 19.9 points, 3.6 points above the national gap of 16.3.
The sex ratio was 983 women per 1,000 men (level with the Odisha figure of 979).
Ganjam contained 39 towns — 18 with a municipal body of some kind, and 21 classed as census towns, meaning they met the census's urban test without having one. The largest was Brahmapur (M Corp.), with 3,56,598 people. That put 21.8% of the district in urban areas, 5.1 points above the Odisha share of 16.7%.
Towns in Ganjam
Ganjam has 39 census towns. The largest are listed below.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brahmapur (M Corp.) | 3.57 L | 89.26% | 920 / 1000 |
| Hinjilicut (NAC) | 24,671 | 81.61% | 946 / 1000 |
| Polasara (NAC) | 23,119 | 78.63% | 947 / 1000 |
| Chhatrapur (NAC) | 22,027 | 89.84% | 984 / 1000 |
| Asika (NAC) | 21,428 | 85.76% | 955 / 1000 |
| Bhanjanagar (NAC) | 20,482 | 89.25% | 987 / 1000 |
| Kabisurjyanagar (NAC) | 17,430 | 80.74% | 936 / 1000 |
| Lochapada (CT) | 16,377 | 89.50% | 926 / 1000 |