Gondiya
Population
- Population
- 13.23 LIndia 121.09 Cr
- Urban %
- 17.08%India 31.14%
Literacy
- Literacy
- 84.95%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 92.04%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 77.89%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 14.15 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 999 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 956 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 10.61%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 13.31%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 16.20%India 8.63%
- Household
- 4.52India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 50.31%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 42.71%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 65.22%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 49.69%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.
Gondiya in context
With 13,22,507 people at the 2011 Census, Gondiya was the 370th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 29th most populous of Maharashtra's 35. That is 1.2% of everyone living in Maharashtra at the time.
Literacy stood at 84.95%, 12.0 points above the national 72.98% — 2.6 points above the Maharashtra average. That ranked it 72nd of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 14.2 points, 2.1 points below the national gap of 16.3.
The sex ratio was 999 women per 1,000 men (70 above the Maharashtra figure of 929). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 956, 38 above the national 918.
50.3% of the population were recorded as workers, 6.3 points above the Maharashtra rate. Female work participation was 42.7%, 11.7 points above the state figure.
Gondiya contained 10 towns — 2 with a municipal body of some kind, and 8 classed as census towns, meaning they met the census's urban test without having one. The largest was Gondiya (M Cl), with 1,32,813 people. That put 17.1% of the district in urban areas, 28.1 points below the Maharashtra share of 45.2%.
Towns in Gondiya
Gondiya has 10 census towns. The largest are listed below.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gondiya (M Cl) | 1.33 L | 93.30% | 997 / 1000 |
| Tirora (M Cl) | 25,181 | 89.91% | 977 / 1000 |
| Deori (CT) | 14,579 | 89.52% | 972 / 1000 |
| Kudwa (CT) | 11,549 | 89.89% | 901 / 1000 |
| Amgaon bk. (CT) | 10,972 | 87.09% | 1014 / 1000 |
| Risama (CT) | 6,925 | 90.94% | 987 / 1000 |
| Khamari (CT) | 6,794 | 82.71% | 1006 / 1000 |
| Katangi Kala (CT) | 6,440 | 87.27% | 993 / 1000 |