Morena
Population
- Population
- 19.66 LIndia 121.09 Cr
- Urban %
- 23.93%India 31.14%
Literacy
- Literacy
- 71.03%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 82.93%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 56.90%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 26.03 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 840 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 829 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 15.52%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 21.44%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 0.87%India 8.63%
- Household
- 5.42India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 34.38%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 16.79%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 77.07%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 65.62%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.
Morena in context
With 19,65,970 people at the 2011 Census, Morena was the 236th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 11th most populous of Madhya Pradesh's 50. That is 2.7% of everyone living in Madhya Pradesh at the time.
Literacy stood at 71.03%, 2.0 points below the national 72.98% — 1.7 points above the Madhya Pradesh average. That ranked it 349th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 26.0 points, 9.8 points above the national gap of 16.3.
The sex ratio was 840 women per 1,000 men (91 below the Madhya Pradesh figure of 931). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 829, 89 below the national 918.
34.4% of the population were recorded as workers, 9.1 points below the Madhya Pradesh rate. Female work participation was 16.8%, 15.9 points below the state figure.
Morena contained 9 towns — 8 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 Morena (M), with 2,00,482 people. That put 23.9% of the district in urban areas, 3.7 points below the Madhya Pradesh share of 27.6%.
Towns in Morena
Morena has 9 census towns. The largest are listed below.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Morena (M) | 2.00 L | 79.22% | 850 / 1000 |
| Ambah (M) | 47,177 | 78.97% | 880 / 1000 |
| Joura (NP) | 42,153 | 72.83% | 858 / 1000 |
| Sabalgarh (M) | 40,333 | 78.74% | 870 / 1000 |
| Porsa (M) | 39,669 | 80.90% | 893 / 1000 |
| Bamor (NP) | 32,838 | 72.42% | 854 / 1000 |
| Jaura Khurd (CT) | 32,087 | 72.82% | 830 / 1000 |
| Kailaras (NP) | 25,920 | 78.91% | 860 / 1000 |