Karimnagar

With 37,76,269 people at the 2011 Census, Karimnagar was the 69th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 12th most populous of Andhra Pradesh's 23. That is 4.5% of everyone living in Andhra Pradesh at the time.

Literacy stood at 64.15%, 8.8 points below the national 72.98% — 2.9 points below the Andhra Pradesh average. That ranked it 498th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 18.9 points, 2.6 points above the national gap of 16.3.

The sex ratio was 1008 women per 1,000 men (15 above the Andhra Pradesh figure of 993) — one of the minority of districts where women outnumbered men. Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 935, 17 above the national 918.

49.7% of the population were recorded as workers, 3.1 points above the Andhra Pradesh rate. Female work participation was 43.6%, 7.5 points above the state figure.

Karimnagar contained 13 towns — 6 with a municipal body of some kind, and 7 classed as census towns, meaning they met the census's urban test without having one. The largest was Karimnagar (M Corp.), with 2,61,185 people. That put 25.2% of the district in urban areas, 8.2 points below the Andhra Pradesh share of 33.4%.