Mandsaur

With 13,40,411 people at the 2011 Census, Mandsaur was the 361st most populous of India's 640 districts and the 26th most populous of Madhya Pradesh's 50. That is 1.8% of everyone living in Madhya Pradesh at the time.

Literacy stood at 71.78%, 1.2 points below the national 72.98% — 2.5 points above the Madhya Pradesh average. That ranked it 331st of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 27.2 points, 10.9 points above the national gap of 16.3.

The sex ratio was 963 women per 1,000 men (32 above the Madhya Pradesh figure of 931).

50.7% of the population were recorded as workers, 7.2 points above the Madhya Pradesh rate. Female work participation was 42.9%, 10.3 points above the state figure.

Mandsaur contained 11 towns — 10 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 Mandsaur (M), with 1,41,667 people. That put 20.7% of the district in urban areas, 6.9 points below the Madhya Pradesh share of 27.6%.