Ratnagiri
Population
- Population
- 16.15 LIndia 121.09 Cr
- Urban %
- 16.33%India 31.14%
Literacy
- Literacy
- 82.18%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 90.93%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 74.53%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 16.40 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 1122 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 936 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 9.63%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 4.15%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 1.26%India 8.63%
- Household
- 4.07India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 44.21%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 35.96%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 77.72%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 55.79%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.
Ratnagiri in context
With 16,15,069 people at the 2011 Census, Ratnagiri was the 311th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 28th most populous of Maharashtra's 35. That is 1.4% of everyone living in Maharashtra at the time.
Literacy stood at 82.18%, 9.2 points above the national 72.98% — level with the Maharashtra average. That ranked it 126th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 16.4 points, level with the national gap of 16.3.
The sex ratio was 1122 women per 1,000 men (193 above the Maharashtra figure of 929) — one of the minority of districts where women outnumbered men. Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 936, 18 above the national 918.
Ratnagiri contained 16 towns — 5 with a municipal body of some kind, and 11 classed as census towns, meaning they met the census's urban test without having one. The largest was Ratnagiri (M Cl), with 76,229 people. That put 16.3% of the district in urban areas, 28.9 points below the Maharashtra share of 45.2%.
Towns in Ratnagiri
Ratnagiri has 16 census towns. The largest are listed below.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ratnagiri (M Cl) | 76,229 | 91.88% | 1024 / 1000 |
| Chiplun (M Cl) | 55,139 | 93.92% | 1016 / 1000 |
| Khed (M Cl) | 16,892 | 94.33% | 1072 / 1000 |
| Dapoli Camp (NP) | 15,713 | 92.74% | 1022 / 1000 |
| Lanja (CT) | 14,377 | 92.35% | 1004 / 1000 |
| Devrukh (CT) | 12,689 | 91.37% | 1033 / 1000 |
| Kherdi (CT) | 12,397 | 92.75% | 926 / 1000 |
| Nachane (CT) | 11,688 | 93.47% | 957 / 1000 |