Koriya
Population
- Population
- 6.59 LIndia 121.09 Cr
- Urban %
- 31.16%India 31.14%
Literacy
- Literacy
- 70.64%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 80.37%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 60.60%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 19.77 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 968 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 968 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 14.54%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 8.31%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 46.18%India 8.63%
- Household
- 4.30India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 46.60%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 37.51%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 56.36%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 53.40%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.
Koriya in context
With 6,58,917 people at the 2011 Census, Koriya was the 510th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 15th most populous of Chhattisgarh's 18. That is 2.6% of everyone living in Chhattisgarh at the time.
Literacy stood at 70.64%, 2.3 points below the national 72.98% — level with the Chhattisgarh average. That ranked it 363rd of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 19.8 points, 3.5 points above the national gap of 16.3.
The sex ratio was 968 women per 1,000 men (23 below the Chhattisgarh figure of 991). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 968, 50 above the national 918.
Koriya contained 9 towns — 8 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 urban settlement was the part of Chirmiri (M.Corp) falling inside the district, with 69,307 people. That put 31.2% of the district in urban areas, 7.9 points above the Chhattisgarh share of 23.2%.
Towns in Koriya
Koriya has 9 census towns. The largest are listed below.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chirmiri (M.Corp) (Part) | 69,307 | 80.27% | 922 / 1000 |
| Manendragarh (M) | 33,071 | 86.71% | 932 / 1000 |
| Baikunthpur (M) | 28,431 | 83.78% | 928 / 1000 |
| Shivpur Charcha (M) | 23,514 | 80.27% | 930 / 1000 |
| Khongapani (NP) | 17,400 | 76.59% | 937 / 1000 |
| Chirmiri (M.Corp) (Part) | 16,010 | 80.02% | 925 / 1000 |
| Jhagrakhand (NP) | 7,680 | 79.69% | 979 / 1000 |
| Nai-Ledri (NP) | 5,334 | 83.28% | 960 / 1000 |