Sundargarh
Population
- Population
- 20.93 LIndia 121.09 Cr
- Urban %
- 35.26%India 31.14%
Literacy
- Literacy
- 73.34%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 81.01%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 65.48%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 15.53 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 973 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 946 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 12.57%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 9.16%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 50.75%India 8.63%
- Household
- 4.37India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 41.71%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 27.95%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 61.28%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 58.29%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.
Sundargarh in context
With 20,93,437 people at the 2011 Census, Sundargarh was the 217th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 6th most populous of Odisha's 30. That is 5.0% of everyone living in Odisha at the time.
Literacy stood at 73.34%, level with the national 72.98% — level with the Odisha average. That ranked it 289th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 15.5 points, 0.7 points below the national gap of 16.3.
The sex ratio was 973 women per 1,000 men (6 below the Odisha figure of 979). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 946, 28 above the national 918.
Sundargarh contained 14 towns — 6 with a municipal body of some kind, and 8 classed as census towns, meaning they met the census's urban test without having one. The largest was Raurkela (M), with 2,72,721 people. That put 35.3% of the district in urban areas, 18.6 points above the Odisha share of 16.7%.
Towns in Sundargarh
Sundargarh has 14 census towns. The largest are listed below.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Raurkela (M) | 2.73 L | 86.98% | 888 / 1000 |
| Raurkela (ITS) | 2.10 L | 85.47% | 924 / 1000 |
| Rajagangapur (M) | 51,362 | 84.32% | 956 / 1000 |
| Sundargarh (M) | 45,036 | 88.88% | 979 / 1000 |
| Biramitrapur (M) | 33,442 | 78.12% | 984 / 1000 |
| Jalda (CT) | 15,789 | 75.92% | 990 / 1000 |
| Panposh (CT) | 9,923 | 78.95% | 972 / 1000 |
| Kuanrmunda (CT) | 9,043 | 79.59% | 961 / 1000 |