Tumkur
Population
- Population
- 26.79 LIndia 121.09 Cr
- Urban %
- 22.36%India 31.14%
Literacy
- Literacy
- 75.14%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 82.81%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 67.38%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 15.43 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 984 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 959 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 9.92%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 18.92%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 7.82%India 8.63%
- Household
- 4.19India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 50.57%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 38.93%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 79.61%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 49.43%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.
Tumkur in context
With 26,78,980 people at the 2011 Census, Tumkur was the 150th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 4th most populous of Karnataka's 30. That is 4.4% of everyone living in Karnataka at the time.
Literacy stood at 75.14%, 2.2 points above the national 72.98% — level with the Karnataka average. That ranked it 260th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 15.4 points, 0.8 points below the national gap of 16.3.
The sex ratio was 984 women per 1,000 men (11 above the Karnataka figure of 973). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 959, 41 above the national 918.
50.6% of the population were recorded as workers, 5.0 points above the Karnataka rate. Female work participation was 38.9%, 7.1 points above the state figure.
Tumkur contained 12 towns — 10 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 Tumkur (CMC), with 3,02,143 people. That put 22.4% of the district in urban areas, 16.3 points below the Karnataka share of 38.7%.
Towns in Tumkur
Tumkur has 12 census towns. The largest are listed below.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tumkur (CMC) | 3.02 L | 88.91% | 976 / 1000 |
| Tiptur (CMC) | 59,543 | 88.30% | 988 / 1000 |
| Sira (CMC) | 57,554 | 83.77% | 981 / 1000 |
| Kunigal (TMC) | 34,155 | 84.82% | 972 / 1000 |
| Madhugiri (TMC) | 29,159 | 84.79% | 999 / 1000 |
| Pavagada (TMC) | 28,486 | 81.83% | 992 / 1000 |
| Chiknayakanhalli (TMC) | 23,206 | 86.20% | 1028 / 1000 |
| Gubbi (TP) | 18,446 | 89.83% | 999 / 1000 |