Sangli
Population
- Population
- 28.22 LIndia 121.09 Cr
- Urban %
- 25.49%India 31.14%
Literacy
- Literacy
- 81.48%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 88.22%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 74.59%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 13.63 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 966 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 867 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 10.87%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 12.51%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 0.65%India 8.63%
- Household
- 4.72India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 43.06%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 29.93%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 88.47%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 56.94%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.
Sangli in context
With 28,22,143 people at the 2011 Census, Sangli was the 136th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 15th most populous of Maharashtra's 35. That is 2.5% of everyone living in Maharashtra at the time.
Literacy stood at 81.48%, 8.5 points above the national 72.98% — 0.9 points below the Maharashtra average. That ranked it 137th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 13.6 points, 2.6 points below the national gap of 16.3.
The sex ratio was 966 women per 1,000 men (37 above the Maharashtra figure of 929). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 867, 51 below the national 918.
Sangli contained 7 towns — 5 with a municipal body of some kind, and 2 classed as census towns, meaning they met the census's urban test without having one. The largest was Sangli Miraj Kupwad (M Corp.), with 5,02,793 people. That put 25.5% of the district in urban areas, 19.7 points below the Maharashtra share of 45.2%.
Towns in Sangli
Sangli has 7 census towns. The largest are listed below.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sangli Miraj Kupwad (M Corp.) | 5.03 L | 85.91% | 982 / 1000 |
| Uran Islampur (M Cl) | 67,391 | 87.88% | 957 / 1000 |
| Vita (M Cl) | 48,289 | 87.27% | 956 / 1000 |
| Tasgaon (M Cl) | 37,945 | 88.02% | 950 / 1000 |
| Ashta (M Cl) | 37,105 | 83.60% | 935 / 1000 |
| Budhgaon (CT) | 14,666 | 88.00% | 949 / 1000 |
| Madhavnagar (CT) | 11,168 | 86.88% | 966 / 1000 |