Shajapur

With 15,12,681 people at the 2011 Census, Shajapur was the 330th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 20th most populous of Madhya Pradesh's 50. That is 2.1% of everyone living in Madhya Pradesh at the time.

Literacy stood at 69.09%, 3.9 points below the national 72.98% — level with the Madhya Pradesh average. That ranked it 401st of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 25.5 points, 9.3 points above the national gap of 16.3.

The sex ratio was 938 women per 1,000 men (7 above the Madhya Pradesh figure of 931).

47.5% of the population were recorded as workers, 4.0 points above the Madhya Pradesh rate. Female work participation was 39.1%, 6.4 points above the state figure.

Shajapur contained 13 towns — 12 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 Shajapur (M), with 69,263 people. That put 19.4% of the district in urban areas, 8.2 points below the Madhya Pradesh share of 27.6%.