Mau
Population
- Population
- 22.06 LIndia 121.09 Cr
- Urban %
- 22.63%India 31.14%
Literacy
- Literacy
- 73.09%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 82.45%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 63.63%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 18.82 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 979 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 926 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 15.47%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 21.51%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 1.04%India 8.63%
- Household
- 6.80India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 31.58%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 20.28%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 56.90%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 68.42%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.
Mau in context
With 22,05,968 people at the 2011 Census, Mau was the 206th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 44th most populous of Uttar Pradesh's 71. That is 1.1% of everyone living in Uttar Pradesh at the time.
Literacy stood at 73.09%, level with the national 72.98% — 5.4 points above the Uttar Pradesh average. That ranked it 295th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 18.8 points, 2.6 points above the national gap of 16.3.
The sex ratio was 979 women per 1,000 men (67 above the Uttar Pradesh figure of 912).
Mau contained 14 towns — 7 with a municipal body of some kind, and 7 classed as census towns, meaning they met the census's urban test without having one. The largest was Maunath Bhanjan (NPP), with 2,78,745 people. That put 22.6% of the district in urban areas, level with the Uttar Pradesh share of 22.3%.
Towns in Mau
Mau has 14 census towns. The largest are listed below.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maunath Bhanjan (NPP) | 2.79 L | 77.13% | 950 / 1000 |
| Muhammadabad (NP) | 41,780 | 79.44% | 943 / 1000 |
| Ghosi (NP) | 39,165 | 77.65% | 945 / 1000 |
| Kopaganj (NP) | 34,782 | 78.39% | 945 / 1000 |
| Walidpur (CT) | 25,589 | 70.30% | 975 / 1000 |
| Kurthi Jafarpur (CT) | 14,157 | 81.99% | 961 / 1000 |
| Adari (NP) | 13,717 | 80.97% | 957 / 1000 |
| Khairabad (CT) | 13,016 | 75.79% | 953 / 1000 |