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Madhya Pradesh districts

Madhya Pradesh

Jabalpur

24,63,289
people at the 2011 Census · 12.77 L male, 11.86 L female

Population

Population
24.63 LIndia 121.09 Cr
Urban %
58.46%India 31.14%

Literacy

Literacy
81.07%India 72.98%
Male Lit.
87.29%India 80.88%
Female Lit.
74.37%India 64.63%
Lit. Gap
12.92 ppIndia 16.25 pp

Society

Sex Ratio
929 / 1000India 943 / 1000
Child Sex Ratio
923 / 1000India 918 / 1000
Under 7
12.04%India 13.59%
SC %
14.13%India 16.63%
ST %
15.23%India 8.63%
Household
4.57India 4.85

Work

Workers
40.82%India 39.80%
Female Work
25.27%India 25.52%
Main Workers
74.01%India 75.24%
Non-Workers
59.18%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.

Jabalpur in context

With 24,63,289 people at the 2011 Census, Jabalpur was the 179th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 2nd most populous of Madhya Pradesh's 50. That is 3.4% of everyone living in Madhya Pradesh at the time.

Literacy stood at 81.07%, 8.1 points above the national 72.98% — 11.8 points above the Madhya Pradesh average. That ranked it 142nd of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 12.9 points, 3.3 points below the national gap of 16.3.

The sex ratio was 929 women per 1,000 men (level with the Madhya Pradesh figure of 931).

Female work participation was 25.3%, 7.4 points below the state figure.

Jabalpur contained 24 towns — 10 with a municipal body of some kind, and 14 classed as census towns, meaning they met the census's urban test without having one. The largest urban settlement was the part of Jabalpur (M Corp.) falling inside the district, with 10,55,525 people. That put 58.5% of the district in urban areas, 30.8 points above the Madhya Pradesh share of 27.6%.

Towns in Jabalpur

Jabalpur has 24 census towns. The largest are listed below.

Largest towns in Jabalpur by 2011 Census population.
TownPopulationLiteracySex ratio
Jabalpur (M Corp.) (Part)10.56 L87.39%935 / 1000
Jabalpur Cantt (CB)72,26191.79%713 / 1000
Sihora (M)44,04883.80%939 / 1000
Panagar (M)27,93283.67%930 / 1000
Katangi (NP)19,04077.55%924 / 1000
Suhagi (CT)14,78790.06%895 / 1000
Patan (NP)14,62482.27%904 / 1000
Karmeta (CT)14,45288.74%893 / 1000
All 24 towns in Jabalpur