Mahbubnagar
Population
- Population
- 40.53 LIndia 121.09 Cr
- Urban %
- 14.99%India 31.14%
Literacy
- Literacy
- 55.04%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 65.21%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 44.72%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 20.49 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 977 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 925 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 13.01%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 17.49%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 8.99%India 8.63%
- Household
- 4.66India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 51.38%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 47.06%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 87.19%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 48.62%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.
Mahbubnagar in context
With 40,53,028 people at the 2011 Census, Mahbubnagar was the 55th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 9th most populous of Andhra Pradesh's 23. That is 4.8% of everyone living in Andhra Pradesh at the time.
Literacy stood at 55.04%, 17.9 points below the national 72.98% — 12.0 points below the Andhra Pradesh average. That ranked it 608th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 20.5 points, 4.2 points above the national gap of 16.3.
The sex ratio was 977 women per 1,000 men (16 below the Andhra Pradesh figure of 993).
51.4% of the population were recorded as workers, 4.8 points above the Andhra Pradesh rate. Female work participation was 47.1%, 10.9 points above the state figure.
Mahbubnagar contained 18 towns — 4 with a municipal body of some kind, and 14 classed as census towns, meaning they met the census's urban test without having one. The largest was Mahbubnagar (M), with 1,57,733 people. That put 15.0% of the district in urban areas, 18.4 points below the Andhra Pradesh share of 33.4%.
Towns in Mahbubnagar
Mahbubnagar has 18 census towns. The largest are listed below.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mahbubnagar (M) | 1.58 L | 83.96% | 992 / 1000 |
| Wanaparthy (M) | 60,949 | 77.91% | 935 / 1000 |
| Gadwal (M) | 57,569 | 71.39% | 980 / 1000 |
| Farooqnagar (CT) | 45,675 | 80.94% | 958 / 1000 |
| Narayanpet (NP) | 41,752 | 72.18% | 1017 / 1000 |
| Badepalle (CT) | 32,598 | 80.08% | 996 / 1000 |
| Kalwakurthy (CT) | 28,060 | 75.78% | 960 / 1000 |
| Nagarkurnool (CT) | 26,801 | 80.05% | 995 / 1000 |