Khammam
Population
- Population
- 27.97 LIndia 121.09 Cr
- Urban %
- 23.45%India 31.14%
Literacy
- Literacy
- 64.81%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 72.30%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 57.44%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 14.86 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 1011 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 958 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 10.08%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 16.55%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 27.37%India 8.63%
- Household
- 3.71India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 50.41%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 43.17%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 86.23%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 49.59%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.
Khammam in context
With 27,97,370 people at the 2011 Census, Khammam was the 140th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 19th most populous of Andhra Pradesh's 23. That is 3.3% of everyone living in Andhra Pradesh at the time.
Literacy stood at 64.81%, 8.2 points below the national 72.98% — 2.2 points below the Andhra Pradesh average. That ranked it 484th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 14.9 points, 1.4 points below the national gap of 16.3.
The sex ratio was 1011 women per 1,000 men (18 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 958, 40 above the national 918.
50.4% of the population were recorded as workers, 3.8 points above the Andhra Pradesh rate. Female work participation was 43.2%, 7.0 points above the state figure.
Khammam contained 14 towns — 6 with a municipal body of some kind, and 8 classed as census towns, meaning they met the census's urban test without having one. The largest was Khammam (M), with 1,84,210 people. That put 23.4% of the district in urban areas, 9.9 points below the Andhra Pradesh share of 33.4%.
Towns in Khammam
Khammam has 14 census towns. The largest are listed below.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Khammam (M) | 1.84 L | 83.73% | 1026 / 1000 |
| Palwancha (M) | 80,199 | 77.70% | 1009 / 1000 |
| Kothagudem (M) | 79,819 | 81.15% | 1047 / 1000 |
| Khanapuram Haveli (CT) | 53,442 | 88.21% | 1010 / 1000 |
| Bhadrachalam (CT) | 50,087 | 82.77% | 1017 / 1000 |
| Yellandu (M) | 33,732 | 78.72% | 1065 / 1000 |
| Manugur (M) | 32,091 | 73.89% | 1014 / 1000 |
| Sathupalle (NP) | 31,857 | 82.37% | 1019 / 1000 |