Neemuch

With 8,26,067 people at the 2011 Census, Neemuch was the 477th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 42nd most populous of Madhya Pradesh's 50. That is 1.1% of everyone living in Madhya Pradesh at the time.

Literacy stood at 70.80%, 2.2 points below the national 72.98% — 1.5 points above the Madhya Pradesh average. That ranked it 357th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 26.8 points, 10.5 points above the national gap of 16.3.

The sex ratio was 954 women per 1,000 men (23 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%, 10.2 points above the state figure.

Neemuch contained 10 towns — 9 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 Neemuch (M), with 1,28,095 people. That put 29.7% of the district in urban areas, 2.1 points above the Madhya Pradesh share of 27.6%.