Solapur
Population
- Population
- 43.18 LIndia 121.09 Cr
- Urban %
- 32.40%India 31.14%
Literacy
- Literacy
- 77.02%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 85.03%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 68.55%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 16.48 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 938 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 883 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 12.47%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 15.05%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 1.80%India 8.63%
- Household
- 4.94India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 43.97%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 33.09%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 92.88%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 56.03%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.
Solapur in context
With 43,17,756 people at the 2011 Census, Solapur was the 43rd most populous of India's 640 districts and the 7th most populous of Maharashtra's 35. That is 3.8% of everyone living in Maharashtra at the time.
Literacy stood at 77.02%, 4.0 points above the national 72.98% — 5.3 points below the Maharashtra average. That ranked it 218th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 16.5 points, level with the national gap of 16.3.
The sex ratio was 938 women per 1,000 men (9 above the Maharashtra figure of 929). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 883, 35 below the national 918.
Solapur contained 13 towns — 10 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 Solapur (M Corp.), with 9,51,558 people. That put 32.4% of the district in urban areas, 12.8 points below the Maharashtra share of 45.2%.
Towns in Solapur
Solapur has 13 census towns. The largest are listed below.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Solapur (M Corp.) | 9.52 L | 82.80% | 978 / 1000 |
| Barshi (M Cl) | 1.19 L | 85.77% | 953 / 1000 |
| Pandharpur (M Cl) | 98,923 | 86.65% | 953 / 1000 |
| Akkalkot (M Cl) | 40,103 | 76.09% | 1000 / 1000 |
| Akluj (CT) | 39,972 | 83.55% | 967 / 1000 |
| Sangole (M Cl) | 34,321 | 83.00% | 937 / 1000 |
| Karmala (M Cl) | 23,199 | 86.96% | 949 / 1000 |
| Kurduvadi (M Cl) | 22,463 | 87.67% | 956 / 1000 |