Gwalior

With 20,32,036 people at the 2011 Census, Gwalior was the 228th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 9th most populous of Madhya Pradesh's 50. That is 2.8% of everyone living in Madhya Pradesh at the time.

Literacy stood at 76.65%, 3.7 points above the national 72.98% — 7.3 points above the Madhya Pradesh average. That ranked it 221st of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 17.3 points, 1.1 points above the national gap of 16.3.

The sex ratio was 864 women per 1,000 men (67 below the Madhya Pradesh figure of 931). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 840, 78 below the national 918.

33.7% of the population were recorded as workers, 9.7 points below the Madhya Pradesh rate. Female work participation was 14.5%, 18.1 points below the state figure.

Gwalior contained 11 towns — 7 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 Gwalior (M Corp.), with 10,54,420 people. That put 62.7% of the district in urban areas, 35.1 points above the Madhya Pradesh share of 27.6%.