Khordha
Population
- Population
- 22.52 LIndia 121.09 Cr
- Urban %
- 48.16%India 31.14%
Literacy
- Literacy
- 86.88%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 91.78%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 81.61%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 10.17 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 929 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 916 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 10.54%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 13.21%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 5.11%India 8.63%
- Household
- 4.56India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 35.18%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 13.49%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 79.86%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 64.82%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.
Khordha in context
With 22,51,673 people at the 2011 Census, Khordha was the 201st most populous of India's 640 districts and the 5th most populous of Odisha's 30. That is 5.4% of everyone living in Odisha at the time.
Literacy stood at 86.88%, 13.9 points above the national 72.98% — 14.0 points above the Odisha average. That ranked it 49th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 10.2 points, 6.1 points below the national gap of 16.3.
The sex ratio was 929 women per 1,000 men (50 below the Odisha figure of 979).
35.2% of the population were recorded as workers, 6.6 points below the Odisha rate. Female work participation was 13.5%, 13.7 points below the state figure.
Khordha contained 13 towns — 5 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 Bhubaneswar (M Corp.), with 8,43,402 people. That put 48.2% of the district in urban areas, 31.5 points above the Odisha share of 16.7%.
Towns in Khordha
Khordha has 13 census towns. The largest are listed below.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bhubaneswar (M Corp.) | 8.43 L | 91.87% | 890 / 1000 |
| Jatani (M) | 55,925 | 89.76% | 956 / 1000 |
| Khordha (M) | 46,205 | 92.19% | 930 / 1000 |
| Balugaon (NAC) | 17,645 | 81.73% | 928 / 1000 |
| Banapur (NAC) | 17,278 | 85.76% | 984 / 1000 |
| Pratapsasan (CT) | 12,830 | 86.62% | 934 / 1000 |
| Bhakarsahi (CT) | 7,110 | 86.51% | 952 / 1000 |
| Balipatapur (CT) | 6,898 | 68.96% | 934 / 1000 |