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Odisha districts

Odisha

Sundargarh

20,93,437
people at the 2011 Census · 10.61 L male, 10.32 L female

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.

Largest towns in Sundargarh by 2011 Census population.
TownPopulationLiteracySex ratio
Raurkela (M)2.73 L86.98%888 / 1000
Raurkela (ITS)2.10 L85.47%924 / 1000
Rajagangapur (M)51,36284.32%956 / 1000
Sundargarh (M)45,03688.88%979 / 1000
Biramitrapur (M)33,44278.12%984 / 1000
Jalda (CT)15,78975.92%990 / 1000
Panposh (CT)9,92378.95%972 / 1000
Kuanrmunda (CT)9,04379.59%961 / 1000
All 14 towns in Sundargarh