Seoni

With 13,79,131 people at the 2011 Census, Seoni was the 357th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 25th most populous of Madhya Pradesh's 50. That is 1.9% of everyone living in Madhya Pradesh at the time.

Literacy stood at 72.12%, 0.9 points below the national 72.98% — 2.8 points above the Madhya Pradesh average. That ranked it 323rd of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 16.8 points, 0.5 points above the national gap of 16.3.

The sex ratio was 982 women per 1,000 men (51 above the Madhya Pradesh figure of 931). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 953, 35 above the national 918.

49.6% of the population were recorded as workers, 6.2 points above the Madhya Pradesh rate. Female work participation was 42.4%, 9.8 points above the state figure.

Seoni contained 6 towns — 3 with a municipal body of some kind, and 3 classed as census towns, meaning they met the census's urban test without having one. The largest was Seoni (M), with 1,02,343 people. That put 11.9% of the district in urban areas, 15.7 points below the Madhya Pradesh share of 27.6%.