Mandla

With 10,54,905 people at the 2011 Census, Mandla was the 432nd most populous of India's 640 districts and the 38th most populous of Madhya Pradesh's 50. That is 1.5% of everyone living in Madhya Pradesh at the time.

Literacy stood at 66.87%, 6.1 points below the national 72.98% — 2.4 points below the Madhya Pradesh average. That ranked it 449th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 21.1 points, 4.9 points above the national gap of 16.3.

The sex ratio was 1008 women per 1,000 men (77 above the Madhya Pradesh figure of 931) — one of the minority of districts where women outnumbered men. Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 970, 52 above the national 918.

53.0% of the population were recorded as workers, 9.6 points above the Madhya Pradesh rate. Female work participation was 49.0%, 16.3 points above the state figure.

Mandla contained 8 towns — 5 with a municipal body of some kind, and 3 classed as census towns, meaning they met the census's urban test without having one. The largest was Mandla (M), with 49,463 people. That put 12.3% of the district in urban areas, 15.3 points below the Madhya Pradesh share of 27.6%.