Raigarh
Population
- Population
- 14.94 LIndia 121.09 Cr
- Urban %
- 16.49%India 31.14%
Literacy
- Literacy
- 73.26%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 83.49%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 63.02%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 20.47 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 991 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 947 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 13.06%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 15.06%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 33.84%India 8.63%
- Household
- 4.06India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 46.20%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 35.09%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 70.25%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 53.80%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.
Raigarh in context
With 14,93,984 people at the 2011 Census, Raigarh was the 336th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 7th most populous of Chhattisgarh's 18. That is 5.8% of everyone living in Chhattisgarh at the time.
Literacy stood at 73.26%, level with the national 72.98% — 3.0 points above the Chhattisgarh average. That ranked it 290th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 20.5 points, 4.2 points above the national gap of 16.3.
The sex ratio was 991 women per 1,000 men (level with the Chhattisgarh figure of 991). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 947, 29 above the national 918.
Raigarh contained 10 towns. The largest was Raigarh (M Corp.), with 1,37,126 people. That put 16.5% of the district in urban areas, 6.8 points below the Chhattisgarh share of 23.2%.
Towns in Raigarh
Raigarh has 10 census towns. The largest are listed below.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Raigarh (M Corp.) | 1.37 L | 87.02% | 953 / 1000 |
| Kharsia (M) | 18,939 | 85.18% | 942 / 1000 |
| Sarangarh (NP) | 14,954 | 85.13% | 1015 / 1000 |
| Dharamjaigarh (NP) | 14,354 | 79.70% | 972 / 1000 |
| Kirodimalnagar (NP) | 13,102 | 85.44% | 749 / 1000 |
| Gharghoda (NP) | 9,455 | 80.42% | 958 / 1000 |
| Lailunga (NP) | 8,208 | 78.78% | 988 / 1000 |
| Sariya (NP) | 6,927 | 83.08% | 984 / 1000 |