Sagar
Population
- Population
- 23.78 LIndia 121.09 Cr
- Urban %
- 29.80%India 31.14%
Literacy
- Literacy
- 76.46%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 84.85%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 67.02%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 17.83 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 893 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 925 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 15.01%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 21.09%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 9.33%India 8.63%
- Household
- 4.59India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 42.30%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 28.87%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 77.44%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 57.70%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.
Sagar in context
With 23,78,458 people at the 2011 Census, Sagar was the 188th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 3rd most populous of Madhya Pradesh's 50. That is 3.3% of everyone living in Madhya Pradesh at the time.
Literacy stood at 76.46%, 3.5 points above the national 72.98% — 7.1 points above the Madhya Pradesh average. That ranked it 223rd of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 17.8 points, 1.6 points above the national gap of 16.3.
The sex ratio was 893 women per 1,000 men (38 below the Madhya Pradesh figure of 931).
Sagar contained 20 towns — 11 with a municipal body of some kind, and 9 classed as census towns, meaning they met the census's urban test without having one. The largest was Sagar (M Corp.), with 2,73,296 people. That put 29.8% of the district in urban areas, 2.2 points above the Madhya Pradesh share of 27.6%.
Towns in Sagar
Sagar has 20 census towns. The largest are listed below.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sagar (M Corp.) | 2.73 L | 89.44% | 914 / 1000 |
| Bina- Etawa (M) | 64,529 | 88.92% | 922 / 1000 |
| Khurai (M) | 51,108 | 83.16% | 918 / 1000 |
| Sagar Cantt (CB) | 40,513 | 87.69% | 795 / 1000 |
| Rahatgarh (NP) | 31,537 | 70.13% | 909 / 1000 |
| Banda (NP) | 30,923 | 82.80% | 937 / 1000 |
| Garhakota (M) | 30,796 | 85.14% | 928 / 1000 |
| Rehli (M) | 30,329 | 83.28% | 911 / 1000 |