Jhansi

With 19,98,603 people at the 2011 Census, Jhansi was the 232nd most populous of India's 640 districts and the 47th most populous of Uttar Pradesh's 71. That is 1.0% of everyone living in Uttar Pradesh at the time.

Literacy stood at 75.05%, 2.1 points above the national 72.98% — 7.4 points above the Uttar Pradesh average. That ranked it 262nd of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 21.9 points, 5.6 points above the national gap of 16.3.

The sex ratio was 890 women per 1,000 men (22 below the Uttar Pradesh figure of 912). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 866, 52 below the national 918.

40.8% of the population were recorded as workers, 7.8 points above the Uttar Pradesh rate. Female work participation was 26.5%, 9.8 points above the state figure.

Jhansi contained 19 towns — 16 with a municipal body of some kind, and 3 classed as census towns, meaning they met the census's urban test without having one. The largest was Jhansi (M Corp.), with 5,05,693 people. That put 41.7% of the district in urban areas, 19.4 points above the Uttar Pradesh share of 22.3%.