Prakasam
Population
- Population
- 33.97 LIndia 121.09 Cr
- Urban %
- 19.56%India 31.14%
Literacy
- Literacy
- 63.08%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 72.92%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 53.11%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 19.81 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 981 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 932 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 11.13%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 23.19%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 4.45%India 8.63%
- Household
- 3.95India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 50.05%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 42.12%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 86.06%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 49.95%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.
Prakasam in context
With 33,97,448 people at the 2011 Census, Prakasam was the 98th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 15th most populous of Andhra Pradesh's 23. That is 4.0% of everyone living in Andhra Pradesh at the time.
Literacy stood at 63.08%, 9.9 points below the national 72.98% — 3.9 points below the Andhra Pradesh average. That ranked it 524th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 19.8 points, 3.6 points above the national gap of 16.3.
The sex ratio was 981 women per 1,000 men (12 below the Andhra Pradesh figure of 993).
50.0% of the population were recorded as workers, 3.4 points above the Andhra Pradesh rate. Female work participation was 42.1%, 6.0 points above the state figure.
Prakasam contained 13 towns — 4 with a municipal body of some kind, and 9 classed as census towns, meaning they met the census's urban test without having one. The largest was Ongole (M), with 2,04,746 people. That put 19.6% of the district in urban areas, 13.8 points below the Andhra Pradesh share of 33.4%.
Towns in Prakasam
Prakasam has 13 census towns. The largest are listed below.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ongole (M) | 2.05 L | 83.04% | 991 / 1000 |
| Chirala (M) | 87,200 | 78.79% | 1031 / 1000 |
| Markapur (M) | 71,092 | 75.29% | 992 / 1000 |
| Kandukur (M) | 57,246 | 74.84% | 999 / 1000 |
| Vetapalem (CT) | 38,671 | 74.08% | 1027 / 1000 |
| Kanigiri (U) (CT) | 37,420 | 77.55% | 981 / 1000 |
| Giddaluru (CT) | 35,150 | 79.71% | 983 / 1000 |
| Podili (CT) | 31,145 | 71.98% | 986 / 1000 |