Khargone (West Nimar)

With 18,73,046 people at the 2011 Census, Khargone (West Nimar) was the 252nd most populous of India's 640 districts and the 12th most populous of Madhya Pradesh's 50. That is 2.6% of everyone living in Madhya Pradesh at the time.

Literacy stood at 62.70%, 10.3 points below the national 72.98% — 6.6 points below the Madhya Pradesh average. That ranked it 527th 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 965 women per 1,000 men (34 above the Madhya Pradesh figure of 931). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 938, 20 above the national 918.

47.7% of the population were recorded as workers, 4.3 points above the Madhya Pradesh rate. Female work participation was 40.9%, 8.2 points above the state figure.

Khargone (West Nimar) contained 11 towns — 7 with a municipal body of some kind, and 4 classed as census towns, meaning they met the census's urban test without having one. The largest was Khargone (M), with 1,06,454 people. That put 16.0% of the district in urban areas, 11.7 points below the Madhya Pradesh share of 27.6%.