Surguja
Population
- Population
- 23.60 LIndia 121.09 Cr
- Urban %
- 10.29%India 31.14%
Literacy
- Literacy
- 60.01%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 69.53%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 50.32%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 19.21 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 978 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 962 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 16.12%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 4.90%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 55.11%India 8.63%
- Household
- 4.49India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 48.98%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 43.36%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 53.87%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 51.02%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.
Surguja in context
With 23,59,886 people at the 2011 Census, Surguja was the 192nd most populous of India's 640 districts and the 4th most populous of Chhattisgarh's 18. That is 9.2% of everyone living in Chhattisgarh at the time.
Literacy stood at 60.01%, 13.0 points below the national 72.98% — 10.3 points below the Chhattisgarh average. That ranked it 562nd of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 19.2 points, 3.0 points above the national gap of 16.3.
The sex ratio was 978 women per 1,000 men (13 below the Chhattisgarh figure of 991). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 962, 44 above the national 918.
Surguja contained 16 towns — 14 with a municipal body of some kind, and 2 classed as census towns, meaning they met the census's urban test without having one. The largest was Ambikapur (M Corp.), with 1,12,449 people. That put 10.3% of the district in urban areas, 12.9 points below the Chhattisgarh share of 23.2%.
Towns in Surguja
Surguja has 16 census towns. The largest are listed below.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ambikapur (M Corp.) | 1.12 L | 88.29% | 928 / 1000 |
| Surajpur (M) | 20,189 | 79.89% | 936 / 1000 |
| Ramanujganj (NP) | 11,893 | 81.91% | 920 / 1000 |
| Bishrampur (NP) | 11,367 | 87.98% | 925 / 1000 |
| Bhatgaon (NP) | 11,204 | 78.91% | 934 / 1000 |
| Sitapur (NP) | 9,361 | 82.90% | 988 / 1000 |
| Kusmi (NP) | 7,448 | 76.55% | 975 / 1000 |
| Jarhi (NP) | 7,228 | 84.06% | 919 / 1000 |