Sindhudurg

With 8,49,651 people at the 2011 Census, Sindhudurg was the 474th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 35th most populous of Maharashtra's 35. That is 0.8% of everyone living in Maharashtra at the time.

Literacy stood at 85.56%, 12.6 points above the national 72.98% — 3.2 points above the Maharashtra average. That ranked it 62nd of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 11.8 points, 4.5 points below the national gap of 16.3.

The sex ratio was 1036 women per 1,000 men (107 above the Maharashtra figure of 929) — one of the minority of districts where women outnumbered men.

40.9% of the population were recorded as workers, 3.1 points below the Maharashtra rate.

Sindhudurg contained 8 towns — 4 with a municipal body of some kind, and 4 classed as census towns, meaning they met the census's urban test without having one. The largest was Sawantwadi (M Cl), with 23,851 people. That put 12.6% of the district in urban areas, 32.6 points below the Maharashtra share of 45.2%.