Kurnool

With 40,53,463 people at the 2011 Census, Kurnool was the 54th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 8th most populous of Andhra Pradesh's 23. That is 4.8% of everyone living in Andhra Pradesh at the time.

Literacy stood at 59.97%, 13.0 points below the national 72.98% — 7.0 points below the Andhra Pradesh average. That ranked it 564th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 20.3 points, 4.1 points above the national gap of 16.3.

The sex ratio was 988 women per 1,000 men (5 below the Andhra Pradesh figure of 993). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 938, 20 above the national 918.

50.1% of the population were recorded as workers, 3.5 points above the Andhra Pradesh rate. Female work participation was 43.0%, 6.8 points above the state figure.

Kurnool contained 13 towns — 6 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 urban settlement was the part of Kurnool (M Corp.) falling inside the district, with 2,96,097 people. That put 28.4% of the district in urban areas, 5.0 points below the Andhra Pradesh share of 33.4%.