Shahdol

With 10,66,063 people at the 2011 Census, Shahdol was the 426th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 37th most populous of Madhya Pradesh's 50. That is 1.5% of everyone living in Madhya Pradesh at the time.

Literacy stood at 66.67%, 6.3 points below the national 72.98% — 2.6 points below the Madhya Pradesh average. That ranked it 457th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 19.1 points, 2.9 points above the national gap of 16.3.

The sex ratio was 974 women per 1,000 men (43 above the Madhya Pradesh figure of 931). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 950, 32 above the national 918.

Female work participation was 38.1%, 5.5 points above the state figure.

Shahdol contained 8 towns — 6 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 Shahdol (M), with 86,681 people. That put 20.6% of the district in urban areas, 7.0 points below the Madhya Pradesh share of 27.6%.