Rayagada

With 9,67,911 people at the 2011 Census, Rayagada was the 451st most populous of India's 640 districts and the 21st most populous of Odisha's 30. That is 2.3% of everyone living in Odisha at the time.

Literacy stood at 49.76%, 23.2 points below the national 72.98% — 23.1 points below the Odisha average. That ranked it 626th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 21.9 points, 5.6 points above the national gap of 16.3.

The sex ratio was 1051 women per 1,000 men (72 above the Odisha figure of 979) — one of the minority of districts where women outnumbered men. Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 965, 47 above the national 918.

48.3% of the population were recorded as workers, 6.5 points above the Odisha rate. Female work participation was 42.2%, 15.0 points above the state figure.

Rayagada contained 7 towns — 3 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 Rayagada (M), with 71,208 people. That put 15.2% of the district in urban areas, 1.5 points below the Odisha share of 16.7%.