Kodagu

With 5,54,519 people at the 2011 Census, Kodagu was the 539th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 30th most populous of Karnataka's 30. That is 0.9% of everyone living in Karnataka at the time.

Literacy stood at 82.61%, 9.6 points above the national 72.98% — 7.3 points above the Karnataka average. That ranked it 119th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 9.1 points, 7.2 points below the national gap of 16.3.

The sex ratio was 1019 women per 1,000 men (46 above the Karnataka figure of 973) — one of the minority of districts where women outnumbered men. Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 978, 60 above the national 918.

50.3% of the population were recorded as workers, 4.7 points above the Karnataka rate. Female work participation was 38.2%, 6.3 points above the state figure.

Kodagu contained 5 towns — 4 with a municipal body of some kind, and 1 classed as census towns, meaning they met the census's urban test without having one. The largest was Madikeri (CMC), with 33,381 people. That put 14.6% of the district in urban areas, 24.1 points below the Karnataka share of 38.7%.