Jhabua

With 10,25,048 people at the 2011 Census, Jhabua was the 440th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 39th most populous of Madhya Pradesh's 50. That is 1.4% of everyone living in Madhya Pradesh at the time.

Literacy stood at 43.30%, 29.7 points below the national 72.98% — 26.0 points below the Madhya Pradesh average. That ranked it 637th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 19.1 points, 2.8 points above the national gap of 16.3.

The sex ratio was 990 women per 1,000 men (59 above the Madhya Pradesh figure of 931). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 943, 25 above the national 918.

50.3% of the population were recorded as workers, 6.8 points above the Madhya Pradesh rate. Female work participation was 49.0%, 16.3 points above the state figure.

Jhabua 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 Jhabua (M), with 35,753 people. That put 9.0% of the district in urban areas, 18.7 points below the Madhya Pradesh share of 27.6%.