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Maharashtra districts

Maharashtra

Nandurbar

16,48,295
people at the 2011 Census · 8.33 L male, 8.15 L female

Population

Population
16.48 LIndia 121.09 Cr
Urban %
16.71%India 31.14%

Literacy

Literacy
64.38%India 72.98%
Male Lit.
72.17%India 80.88%
Female Lit.
56.47%India 64.63%
Lit. Gap
15.70 ppIndia 16.25 pp

Society

Sex Ratio
978 / 1000India 943 / 1000
Child Sex Ratio
944 / 1000India 918 / 1000
Under 7
14.57%India 13.59%
SC %
2.91%India 16.63%
ST %
69.28%India 8.63%
Household
5.09India 4.85

Work

Workers
48.05%India 39.80%
Female Work
42.84%India 25.52%
Main Workers
83.86%India 75.24%
Non-Workers
51.95%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.

Nandurbar in context

With 16,48,295 people at the 2011 Census, Nandurbar was the 303rd most populous of India's 640 districts and the 27th most populous of Maharashtra's 35. That is 1.5% of everyone living in Maharashtra at the time.

Literacy stood at 64.38%, 8.6 points below the national 72.98% — 18.0 points below the Maharashtra average. That ranked it 495th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 15.7 points, 0.6 points below the national gap of 16.3.

The sex ratio was 978 women per 1,000 men (49 above the Maharashtra figure of 929). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 944, 26 above the national 918.

48.0% of the population were recorded as workers, 4.1 points above the Maharashtra rate. Female work participation was 42.8%, 11.8 points above the state figure.

Nandurbar contained 9 towns — 4 with a municipal body of some kind, and 5 classed as census towns, meaning they met the census's urban test without having one. The largest was Nandurbar (M Cl), with 1,11,037 people. That put 16.7% of the district in urban areas, 28.5 points below the Maharashtra share of 45.2%.

Towns in Nandurbar

Nandurbar has 9 census towns. The largest are listed below.

Largest towns in Nandurbar by 2011 Census population.
TownPopulationLiteracySex ratio
Nandurbar (M Cl)1.11 L88.09%934 / 1000
Shahade (M Cl)61,37686.62%954 / 1000
Nawapur (M Cl)34,20786.08%956 / 1000
Talode (M Cl)26,36379.81%982 / 1000
Akkalkuwa (CT)17,84094.99%344 / 1000
Khapar (CT)7,23583.35%957 / 1000
Khandbara (CT)6,51179.80%980 / 1000
Vadfalya (CT)6,09379.49%897 / 1000
All 9 towns in Nandurbar