Jashpur

With 8,51,669 people at the 2011 Census, Jashpur was the 473rd most populous of India's 640 districts and the 11th most populous of Chhattisgarh's 18. That is 3.3% of everyone living in Chhattisgarh at the time.

Literacy stood at 67.92%, 5.1 points below the national 72.98% — 2.4 points below the Chhattisgarh average. That ranked it 428th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 18.7 points, 2.5 points above the national gap of 16.3.

The sex ratio was 1005 women per 1,000 men (14 above the Chhattisgarh figure of 991) — one of the minority of districts where women outnumbered men. Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 980, 62 above the national 918.

57.2% of the population were recorded as workers, 9.5 points above the Chhattisgarh rate. Female work participation was 52.4%, 12.7 points above the state figure.

Jashpur contained 5 towns — 4 with a municipal body of some kind, and 1 classed as census towns, meaning they met the census's urban test without having one. The largest was JashpurNagar (M), with 25,422 people. That put 8.9% of the district in urban areas, 14.3 points below the Chhattisgarh share of 23.2%.