Korba

With 12,06,640 people at the 2011 Census, Korba was the 394th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 9th most populous of Chhattisgarh's 18. That is 4.7% of everyone living in Chhattisgarh at the time.

Literacy stood at 72.37%, 0.6 points below the national 72.98% — 2.1 points above the Chhattisgarh average. That ranked it 312th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 20.6 points, 4.3 points above the national gap of 16.3.

The sex ratio was 969 women per 1,000 men (22 below the Chhattisgarh figure of 991). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 966, 48 above the national 918.

43.2% of the population were recorded as workers, 4.5 points below the Chhattisgarh rate. Female work participation was 31.6%, 8.1 points below the state figure.

Korba contained 8 towns — 6 with a municipal body of some kind, and 2 classed as census towns, meaning they met the census's urban test without having one. The largest urban settlement was the part of Korba (M Corp.) falling inside the district, with 2,22,817 people. That put 37.0% of the district in urban areas, 13.8 points above the Chhattisgarh share of 23.2%.