Sambalpur

With 10,41,099 people at the 2011 Census, Sambalpur was the 436th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 20th most populous of Odisha's 30. That is 2.5% of everyone living in Odisha at the time.

Literacy stood at 76.22%, 3.2 points above the national 72.98% — 3.3 points above the Odisha average. That ranked it 229th 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 976 women per 1,000 men (level with the Odisha figure of 979). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 940, 22 above the national 918.

48.6% of the population were recorded as workers, 6.8 points above the Odisha rate. Female work participation was 37.5%, 10.3 points above the state figure.

Sambalpur contained 6 towns — 5 with a municipal body of some kind, and 1 classed as census towns, meaning they met the census's urban test without having one. The largest was Sambalpur (M), with 1,84,000 people. That put 29.6% of the district in urban areas, 12.9 points above the Odisha share of 16.7%.