Kolhapur
Population
- Population
- 38.76 LIndia 121.09 Cr
- Urban %
- 31.73%India 31.14%
Literacy
- Literacy
- 81.51%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 88.57%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 74.22%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 14.35 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 957 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 863 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 10.55%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 13.01%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 0.78%India 8.63%
- Household
- 4.61India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 43.96%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 30.54%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 88.53%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 56.04%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.
Kolhapur in context
With 38,76,001 people at the 2011 Census, Kolhapur was the 65th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 9th most populous of Maharashtra's 35. That is 3.4% of everyone living in Maharashtra at the time.
Literacy stood at 81.51%, 8.5 points above the national 72.98% — 0.8 points below the Maharashtra average. That ranked it 136th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 14.3 points, 1.9 points below the national gap of 16.3.
The sex ratio was 957 women per 1,000 men (28 above the Maharashtra figure of 929). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 863, 55 below the national 918.
Kolhapur contained 23 towns — 10 with a municipal body of some kind, and 13 classed as census towns, meaning they met the census's urban test without having one. The largest was Kolhapur (M Corp.), with 5,49,236 people. That put 31.7% of the district in urban areas, 13.5 points below the Maharashtra share of 45.2%.
Towns in Kolhapur
Kolhapur has 23 census towns. The largest are listed below.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kolhapur (M Corp.) | 5.49 L | 90.61% | 959 / 1000 |
| Ichalkaranji (M Cl) | 2.87 L | 85.98% | 926 / 1000 |
| Jaysingpur (M Cl) | 48,510 | 85.38% | 999 / 1000 |
| Kabnur (CT) | 38,146 | 86.56% | 912 / 1000 |
| Kagal (M Cl) | 34,106 | 85.11% | 934 / 1000 |
| Uchgaon (CT) | 31,238 | 86.47% | 921 / 1000 |
| Hupari (CT) | 28,953 | 84.87% | 976 / 1000 |
| Gadhinglaj (M Cl) | 27,185 | 89.36% | 996 / 1000 |