Shimoga
Population
- Population
- 17.53 LIndia 121.09 Cr
- Urban %
- 35.59%India 31.14%
Literacy
- Literacy
- 80.45%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 86.07%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 74.84%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 11.23 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 998 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 960 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 10.43%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 17.58%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 3.73%India 8.63%
- Household
- 4.31India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 44.54%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 28.12%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 83.63%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 55.46%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.
Shimoga in context
With 17,52,753 people at the 2011 Census, Shimoga was the 275th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 15th most populous of Karnataka's 30. That is 2.9% of everyone living in Karnataka at the time.
Literacy stood at 80.45%, 7.5 points above the national 72.98% — 5.1 points above the Karnataka average. That ranked it 149th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 11.2 points, 5.0 points below the national gap of 16.3.
The sex ratio was 998 women per 1,000 men (25 above the Karnataka figure of 973). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 960, 42 above the national 918.
Shimoga contained 9 towns. The largest was Shimoga (CMC), with 3,22,650 people. That put 35.6% of the district in urban areas, 3.1 points below the Karnataka share of 38.7%.
Towns in Shimoga
Shimoga has 9 census towns. The largest are listed below.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shimoga (CMC) | 3.23 L | 87.78% | 991 / 1000 |
| Bhadravati (CMC) | 1.51 L | 86.38% | 1014 / 1000 |
| Sagar (CMC) | 54,550 | 90.69% | 1013 / 1000 |
| Shikarpur (TMC) | 36,015 | 87.59% | 996 / 1000 |
| Siralkoppa (TP) | 16,864 | 87.31% | 986 / 1000 |
| Tirthahalli (TP) | 14,528 | 91.63% | 1048 / 1000 |
| Sorab (TP) | 11,332 | 89.00% | 1015 / 1000 |
| Jog Kargal (TP) | 10,847 | 86.15% | 1018 / 1000 |