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Karnataka districts

Karnataka

Kolar

15,36,401
people at the 2011 Census · 7.76 L male, 7.60 L female

Population

Population
15.36 LIndia 121.09 Cr
Urban %
31.25%India 31.14%

Literacy

Literacy
74.39%India 72.98%
Male Lit.
81.81%India 80.88%
Female Lit.
66.84%India 64.63%
Lit. Gap
14.97 ppIndia 16.25 pp

Society

Sex Ratio
979 / 1000India 943 / 1000
Child Sex Ratio
962 / 1000India 918 / 1000
Under 7
11.09%India 13.59%
SC %
30.32%India 16.63%
ST %
5.13%India 8.63%
Household
4.61India 4.85

Work

Workers
46.72%India 39.80%
Female Work
34.71%India 25.52%
Main Workers
81.43%India 75.24%
Non-Workers
53.28%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.

Kolar in context

With 15,36,401 people at the 2011 Census, Kolar was the 325th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 19th most populous of Karnataka's 30. That is 2.5% of everyone living in Karnataka at the time.

Literacy stood at 74.39%, 1.4 points above the national 72.98% — 1.0 points below the Karnataka average. That ranked it 272nd of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 15.0 points, 1.3 points below the national gap of 16.3.

The sex ratio was 979 women per 1,000 men (6 above the Karnataka figure of 973). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 962, 44 above the national 918.

Kolar contained 7 towns — 6 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 Robertson Pet (CMC), with 1,43,233 people. That put 31.3% of the district in urban areas, 7.4 points below the Karnataka share of 38.7%.

Towns in Kolar

Kolar has 7 census towns. The largest are listed below.

Largest towns in Kolar by 2011 Census population.
TownPopulationLiteracySex ratio
Robertson Pet (CMC)1.43 L91.37%1020 / 1000
Kolar (CMC)1.38 L84.80%981 / 1000
Mulbagal (TMC)57,27679.35%983 / 1000
Bangarapet (TMC)44,84986.69%982 / 1000
Malur (TMC)40,05082.47%965 / 1000
Srinivaspur (TMC)26,79382.83%969 / 1000
Bethamangala (CT)10,41382.07%1006 / 1000