Mahrajganj

With 26,84,703 people at the 2011 Census, Mahrajganj was the 148th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 34th most populous of Uttar Pradesh's 71. That is 1.3% of everyone living in Uttar Pradesh at the time.

Literacy stood at 62.76%, 10.2 points below the national 72.98% — 4.9 points below the Uttar Pradesh average. That ranked it 526th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 26.9 points, 10.7 points above the national gap of 16.3.

The sex ratio was 943 women per 1,000 men (31 above the Uttar Pradesh figure of 912).

37.0% of the population were recorded as workers, 4.1 points above the Uttar Pradesh rate. Female work participation was 25.7%, 8.9 points above the state figure.

Mahrajganj contained 7 towns — 6 with a municipal body of some kind, and 1 classed as census towns, meaning they met the census's urban test without having one. The largest was Maharajganj (NPP), with 33,930 people. That put 5.0% of the district in urban areas, 17.3 points below the Uttar Pradesh share of 22.3%.