Hoshangabad
Population
- Population
- 12.41 LIndia 121.09 Cr
- Urban %
- 31.42%India 31.14%
Literacy
- Literacy
- 75.29%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 83.35%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 66.45%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 16.90 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 914 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 919 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 13.26%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 16.51%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 15.89%India 8.63%
- Household
- 4.83India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 38.51%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 22.38%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 75.65%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 61.49%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.
Hoshangabad in context
With 12,41,350 people at the 2011 Census, Hoshangabad was the 387th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 33rd most populous of Madhya Pradesh's 50. That is 1.7% of everyone living in Madhya Pradesh at the time.
Literacy stood at 75.29%, 2.3 points above the national 72.98% — 6.0 points above the Madhya Pradesh average. That ranked it 255th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 16.9 points, 0.6 points above the national gap of 16.3.
The sex ratio was 914 women per 1,000 men (17 below the Madhya Pradesh figure of 931).
38.5% of the population were recorded as workers, 5.0 points below the Madhya Pradesh rate. Female work participation was 22.4%, 10.3 points below the state figure.
Hoshangabad contained 12 towns — 7 with a municipal body of some kind, and 5 classed as census towns, meaning they met the census's urban test without having one. The largest was Hoshangabad (M), with 1,17,988 people. That put 31.4% of the district in urban areas, 3.8 points above the Madhya Pradesh share of 27.6%.
Towns in Hoshangabad
Hoshangabad has 12 census towns. The largest are listed below.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hoshangabad (M) | 1.18 L | 87.01% | 912 / 1000 |
| Itarsi (M) | 99,329 | 88.71% | 934 / 1000 |
| Pipariya (M) | 48,826 | 86.16% | 930 / 1000 |
| Seoni-Malwa (M) | 30,100 | 87.91% | 937 / 1000 |
| Sohagpur (NP) | 25,040 | 84.54% | 936 / 1000 |
| Babai (NP) | 16,741 | 80.89% | 932 / 1000 |
| Hatwas (CT) | 12,295 | 77.08% | 895 / 1000 |
| Pachmarhi Cantt (CB) | 12,062 | 86.74% | 740 / 1000 |