Tikamgarh
Population
- Population
- 14.45 LIndia 121.09 Cr
- Urban %
- 17.29%India 31.14%
Literacy
- Literacy
- 61.43%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 71.77%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 49.97%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 21.80 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 901 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 892 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 15.75%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 25.02%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 4.70%India 8.63%
- Household
- 4.88India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 45.35%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 36.88%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 71.79%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 54.65%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.
Tikamgarh in context
With 14,45,166 people at the 2011 Census, Tikamgarh was the 343rd most populous of India's 640 districts and the 23rd most populous of Madhya Pradesh's 50. That is 2.0% of everyone living in Madhya Pradesh at the time.
Literacy stood at 61.43%, 11.6 points below the national 72.98% — 7.9 points below the Madhya Pradesh average. That ranked it 545th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 21.8 points, 5.6 points above the national gap of 16.3.
The sex ratio was 901 women per 1,000 men (30 below the Madhya Pradesh figure of 931). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 892, 26 below the national 918.
Tikamgarh contained 13 towns. The largest was Tikamgarh (M), with 79,106 people. That put 17.3% of the district in urban areas, 10.3 points below the Madhya Pradesh share of 27.6%.
Towns in Tikamgarh
Tikamgarh has 13 census towns. The largest are listed below.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tikamgarh (M) | 79,106 | 85.02% | 911 / 1000 |
| Prithvipur (NP) | 26,883 | 68.53% | 925 / 1000 |
| Niwari (NP) | 23,724 | 77.16% | 907 / 1000 |
| Jatara (NP) | 17,499 | 73.18% | 928 / 1000 |
| Palera (NP) | 17,493 | 68.93% | 924 / 1000 |
| Khargapur (NP) | 14,813 | 70.01% | 872 / 1000 |
| Lidhora Khas (NP) | 12,974 | 69.45% | 935 / 1000 |
| Orchha (NP) | 11,511 | 70.96% | 895 / 1000 |