Mysore
Population
- Population
- 30.01 LIndia 121.09 Cr
- Urban %
- 41.50%India 31.14%
Literacy
- Literacy
- 72.79%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 78.46%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 67.06%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 11.40 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 985 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 961 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 10.18%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 17.88%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 11.15%India 8.63%
- Household
- 4.28India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 43.79%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 26.35%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 82.34%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 56.21%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.
Mysore in context
With 30,01,127 people at the 2011 Census, Mysore was the 125th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 3rd most populous of Karnataka's 30. That is 4.9% of everyone living in Karnataka at the time.
Literacy stood at 72.79%, level with the national 72.98% — 2.6 points below the Karnataka average. That ranked it 304th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 11.4 points, 4.8 points below the national gap of 16.3.
The sex ratio was 985 women per 1,000 men (12 above the Karnataka figure of 973). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 961, 43 above the national 918.
Female work participation was 26.4%, 5.5 points below the state figure.
Mysore contained 19 towns — 9 with a municipal body of some kind, and 10 classed as census towns, meaning they met the census's urban test without having one. The largest was Mysore (M Corp.), with 8,93,062 people. That put 41.5% of the district in urban areas, 2.8 points above the Karnataka share of 38.7%.
Towns in Mysore
Mysore has 19 census towns. The largest are listed below.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mysore (M Corp.) | 8.93 L | 87.67% | 999 / 1000 |
| Hunsur (TMC) | 50,865 | 81.07% | 1000 / 1000 |
| Nanjangud (TMC) | 50,598 | 82.07% | 1023 / 1000 |
| Krishnarajanagara (TMC) | 35,805 | 86.74% | 1000 / 1000 |
| Hinkal (CT) | 23,162 | 82.60% | 958 / 1000 |
| Bannur (TMC) | 21,896 | 70.75% | 1018 / 1000 |
| Hutagalli (CT) | 18,308 | 90.84% | 906 / 1000 |
| Piriyapatna (TP) | 16,685 | 80.85% | 1014 / 1000 |