Kendrapara
Population
- Population
- 14.40 LIndia 121.09 Cr
- Urban %
- 5.80%India 31.14%
Literacy
- Literacy
- 85.15%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 91.45%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 78.96%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 12.49 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 1007 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 926 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 11.19%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 21.51%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 0.66%India 8.63%
- Household
- 4.47India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 32.41%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 11.14%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 69.02%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 67.59%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.
Kendrapara in context
With 14,40,361 people at the 2011 Census, Kendrapara was the 344th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 14th most populous of Odisha's 30. That is 3.4% of everyone living in Odisha at the time.
Literacy stood at 85.15%, 12.2 points above the national 72.98% — 12.3 points above the Odisha average. That ranked it 70th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 12.5 points, 3.8 points below the national gap of 16.3.
The sex ratio was 1007 women per 1,000 men (28 above the Odisha figure of 979) — one of the minority of districts where women outnumbered men.
32.4% of the population were recorded as workers, 9.4 points below the Odisha rate. Female work participation was 11.1%, 16.0 points below the state figure.
Kendrapara contained 2 towns. The largest was Kendrapara (M), with 47,006 people. That put 5.8% of the district in urban areas, 10.9 points below the Odisha share of 16.7%.
Towns in Kendrapara
Kendrapara has 2 census towns. The largest are listed below.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kendrapara (M) | 47,006 | 89.32% | 941 / 1000 |
| Pattamundai (NAC) | 36,528 | 86.93% | 969 / 1000 |