Kota
Population
- Population
- 19.51 LIndia 121.09 Cr
- Urban %
- 60.31%India 31.14%
Literacy
- Literacy
- 76.56%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 86.31%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 65.87%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 20.44 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 911 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 899 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 13.07%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 20.78%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 9.42%India 8.63%
- Household
- 4.92India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 38.38%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 23.03%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 77.13%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 61.62%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.
Kota in context
With 19,51,014 people at the 2011 Census, Kota was the 239th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 16th most populous of Rajasthan's 33. That is 2.8% of everyone living in Rajasthan at the time.
Literacy stood at 76.56%, 3.6 points above the national 72.98% — 10.5 points above the Rajasthan average. That ranked it 222nd of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 20.4 points, 4.2 points above the national gap of 16.3.
The sex ratio was 911 women per 1,000 men (17 below the Rajasthan figure of 928). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 899, 19 below the national 918.
38.4% of the population were recorded as workers, 5.2 points below the Rajasthan rate. Female work participation was 23.0%, 12.1 points below the state figure.
Kota contained 11 towns — 4 with a municipal body of some kind, and 7 classed as census towns, meaning they met the census's urban test without having one. The largest was Kota (M Corp.), with 10,01,694 people. That put 60.3% of the district in urban areas, 35.4 points above the Rajasthan share of 24.9%.
Towns in Kota
Kota has 11 census towns. The largest are listed below.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kota (M Corp.) | 10.02 L | 82.80% | 895 / 1000 |
| Ramganj Mandi (M) | 41,328 | 80.68% | 920 / 1000 |
| Kaithoon (M) | 24,260 | 73.45% | 946 / 1000 |
| Suket (CT) | 22,319 | 70.91% | 922 / 1000 |
| Sangod (M) | 21,846 | 78.98% | 952 / 1000 |
| Satalkheri (CT) | 15,617 | 62.62% | 874 / 1000 |
| Khairabad (CT) | 11,993 | 79.35% | 890 / 1000 |
| Chechat (CT) | 11,690 | 79.15% | 910 / 1000 |