Raipur

With 40,63,872 people at the 2011 Census, Raipur was the 53rd most populous of India's 640 districts and the most populous of Chhattisgarh's 18. That is 15.9% of everyone living in Chhattisgarh at the time.

Literacy stood at 75.56%, 2.6 points above the national 72.98% — 5.3 points above the Chhattisgarh average. That ranked it 249th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 19.5 points, 3.2 points above the national gap of 16.3.

The sex ratio was 984 women per 1,000 men (7 below the Chhattisgarh figure of 991). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 968, 50 above the national 918.

43.3% of the population were recorded as workers, 4.4 points below the Chhattisgarh rate. Female work participation was 32.6%, 7.1 points below the state figure.

Raipur contained 26 towns — 22 with a municipal body of some kind, and 4 classed as census towns, meaning they met the census's urban test without having one. The largest was Raipur (M Corp.), with 10,10,433 people. That put 36.5% of the district in urban areas, 13.3 points above the Chhattisgarh share of 23.2%.