Krishna
Population
- Population
- 45.17 LIndia 121.09 Cr
- Urban %
- 40.81%India 31.14%
Literacy
- Literacy
- 73.74%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 78.30%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 69.18%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 9.12 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 992 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 935 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 9.65%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 19.28%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 2.93%India 8.63%
- Household
- 3.63India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 45.36%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 32.07%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 85.17%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 54.64%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.
Krishna in context
With 45,17,398 people at the 2011 Census, Krishna was the 34th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 4th most populous of Andhra Pradesh's 23. That is 5.3% of everyone living in Andhra Pradesh at the time.
Literacy stood at 73.74%, 0.8 points above the national 72.98% — 6.7 points above the Andhra Pradesh average. That ranked it 282nd of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 9.1 points, 7.1 points below the national gap of 16.3.
The sex ratio was 992 women per 1,000 men (level with the Andhra Pradesh figure of 993). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 935, 17 above the national 918.
Krishna contained 18 towns — 7 with a municipal body of some kind, and 11 classed as census towns, meaning they met the census's urban test without having one. The largest urban settlement was the part of Vijayawada (M Corp.) falling inside the district, with 10,21,806 people. That put 40.8% of the district in urban areas, 7.5 points above the Andhra Pradesh share of 33.4%.
Towns in Krishna
Krishna has 18 census towns. The largest are listed below.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vijayawada (M Corp.) (Part) | 10.22 L | 81.35% | 994 / 1000 |
| Machilipatnam (M) | 1.70 L | 82.43% | 1032 / 1000 |
| Gudivada (M) | 1.18 L | 81.64% | 1001 / 1000 |
| Nuzvid (M) | 58,590 | 82.37% | 1012 / 1000 |
| Jaggaiahpet (M) | 53,530 | 79.15% | 1021 / 1000 |
| Kanuru (CT) | 49,006 | 85.07% | 844 / 1000 |
| Yenamalakuduru (CT) | 34,177 | 72.89% | 993 / 1000 |
| Kondapalle (CT) | 33,373 | 77.99% | 990 / 1000 |