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Maharashtra districts

Maharashtra

Sangli

28,22,143
people at the 2011 Census · 14.36 L male, 13.86 L female

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.

Largest towns in Sangli by 2011 Census population.
TownPopulationLiteracySex ratio
Sangli Miraj Kupwad (M Corp.)5.03 L85.91%982 / 1000
Uran Islampur (M Cl)67,39187.88%957 / 1000
Vita (M Cl)48,28987.27%956 / 1000
Tasgaon (M Cl)37,94588.02%950 / 1000
Ashta (M Cl)37,10583.60%935 / 1000
Budhgaon (CT)14,66688.00%949 / 1000
Madhavnagar (CT)11,16886.88%966 / 1000