Gulbarga

With 25,66,326 people at the 2011 Census, Gulbarga was the 162nd most populous of India's 640 districts and the 5th most populous of Karnataka's 30. That is 4.2% of everyone living in Karnataka at the time.

Literacy stood at 64.85%, 8.1 points below the national 72.98% — 10.5 points below the Karnataka average. That ranked it 483rd of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 19.3 points, 3.0 points above the national gap of 16.3.

The sex ratio was 971 women per 1,000 men (level with the Karnataka figure of 973). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 943, 25 above the national 918.

42.4% of the population were recorded as workers, 3.3 points below the Karnataka rate.

Gulbarga contained 11 towns — 10 with a municipal body of some kind, and 1 classed as census towns, meaning they met the census's urban test without having one. The largest was Gulbarga (M Corp.), with 5,33,587 people. That put 32.6% of the district in urban areas, 6.1 points below the Karnataka share of 38.7%.