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Maharashtra districts

Maharashtra

Raigarh

26,34,200
people at the 2011 Census · 13.44 L male, 12.90 L female

Population

Population
26.34 LIndia 121.09 Cr
Urban %
36.83%India 31.14%

Literacy

Literacy
83.14%India 72.98%
Male Lit.
89.13%India 80.88%
Female Lit.
76.92%India 64.63%
Lit. Gap
12.21 ppIndia 16.25 pp

Society

Sex Ratio
959 / 1000India 943 / 1000
Child Sex Ratio
935 / 1000India 918 / 1000
Under 7
11.42%India 13.59%
SC %
5.12%India 16.63%
ST %
11.58%India 8.63%
Household
4.31India 4.85

Work

Workers
40.73%India 39.80%
Female Work
24.74%India 25.52%
Main Workers
80.04%India 75.24%
Non-Workers
59.27%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 26,34,200 people at the 2011 Census, Raigarh was the 154th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 17th most populous of Maharashtra's 35. That is 2.3% of everyone living in Maharashtra at the time.

Literacy stood at 83.14%, 10.2 points above the national 72.98% — 0.8 points above the Maharashtra average. That ranked it 109th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 12.2 points, 4.0 points below the national gap of 16.3.

The sex ratio was 959 women per 1,000 men (30 above the Maharashtra figure of 929). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 935, 17 above the national 918.

40.7% of the population were recorded as workers, 3.3 points below the Maharashtra rate. Female work participation was 24.7%, 6.3 points below the state figure.

Raigarh contained 42 towns — 11 with a municipal body of some kind, and 31 classed as census towns, meaning they met the census's urban test without having one. The largest was Navi Mumbai Panvel Raigarh (CT), with 1,95,373 people. That put 36.8% of the district in urban areas, 8.4 points below the Maharashtra share of 45.2%.

Towns in Raigarh

Raigarh has 42 census towns. The largest are listed below.

Largest towns in Raigarh by 2011 Census population.
TownPopulationLiteracySex ratio
Navi Mumbai Panvel Raigarh (CT)1.95 L89.10%820 / 1000
Panvel (M Cl)1.80 L93.89%946 / 1000
Kharghar (CT)80,61293.60%919 / 1000
Khopoli (M Cl)71,14187.62%907 / 1000
Pen (M Cl)37,85291.40%966 / 1000
Uran (M Cl)30,43991.38%958 / 1000
Karjat (M Cl)29,66388.38%945 / 1000
Mahad (M Cl)27,53694.32%963 / 1000
All 42 towns in Raigarh