Latur

With 24,54,196 people at the 2011 Census, Latur was the 180th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 20th most populous of Maharashtra's 35. That is 2.2% of everyone living in Maharashtra at the time.

Literacy stood at 77.26%, 4.3 points above the national 72.98% — 5.1 points below the Maharashtra average. That ranked it 212th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 14.8 points, 1.5 points below the national gap of 16.3.

The sex ratio was 928 women per 1,000 men (level with the Maharashtra figure of 929). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 889, 29 below the national 918.

Latur contained 7 towns — 5 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 was Latur (M Cl), with 3,82,940 people. That put 25.5% of the district in urban areas, 19.8 points below the Maharashtra share of 45.2%.