Jabalpur
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.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jabalpur (M Corp.) (Part) | 10.56 L | 87.39% | 935 / 1000 |
| Jabalpur Cantt (CB) | 72,261 | 91.79% | 713 / 1000 |
| Sihora (M) | 44,048 | 83.80% | 939 / 1000 |
| Panagar (M) | 27,932 | 83.67% | 930 / 1000 |
| Katangi (NP) | 19,040 | 77.55% | 924 / 1000 |
| Suhagi (CT) | 14,787 | 90.06% | 895 / 1000 |
| Patan (NP) | 14,624 | 82.27% | 904 / 1000 |
| Karmeta (CT) | 14,452 | 88.74% | 893 / 1000 |