Hassan

With 17,76,421 people at the 2011 Census, Hassan was the 269th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 14th most populous of Karnataka's 30. That is 2.9% of everyone living in Karnataka at the time.

Literacy stood at 76.07%, 3.1 points above the national 72.98% — 0.7 points above the Karnataka average. That ranked it 231st of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 15.0 points, 1.2 points below the national gap of 16.3.

The sex ratio was 1010 women per 1,000 men (37 above the Karnataka figure of 973) — one of the minority of districts where women outnumbered men. Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 973, 55 above the national 918.

50.9% of the population were recorded as workers, 5.3 points above the Karnataka rate. Female work participation was 38.4%, 6.6 points above the state figure.

Hassan contained 11 towns — 8 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 Hassan (CMC), with 1,33,436 people. That put 21.2% of the district in urban areas, 17.5 points below the Karnataka share of 38.7%.