Udupi
Population
- Population
- 11.77 LIndia 121.09 Cr
- Urban %
- 28.37%India 31.14%
Literacy
- Literacy
- 86.24%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 91.41%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 81.58%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 9.83 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 1094 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 958 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 8.76%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 6.41%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 4.49%India 8.63%
- Household
- 4.65India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 43.59%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 28.91%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 89.52%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 56.41%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.
Udupi in context
With 11,77,361 people at the 2011 Census, Udupi was the 402nd most populous of India's 640 districts and the 23rd most populous of Karnataka's 30. That is 1.9% of everyone living in Karnataka at the time.
Literacy stood at 86.24%, 13.3 points above the national 72.98% — 10.9 points above the Karnataka average. That ranked it 55th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 9.8 points, 6.4 points below the national gap of 16.3.
The sex ratio was 1094 women per 1,000 men (121 above the Karnataka figure of 973) — one of the minority of districts where women outnumbered men. Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 958, 40 above the national 918.
Udupi contained 20 towns — 4 with a municipal body of some kind, and 16 classed as census towns, meaning they met the census's urban test without having one. The largest was Udupi (CMC), with 1,25,306 people. That put 28.4% of the district in urban areas, 10.3 points below the Karnataka share of 38.7%.
Towns in Udupi
Udupi has 20 census towns. The largest are listed below.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Udupi (CMC) | 1.25 L | 93.55% | 1022 / 1000 |
| Kundapura (TMC) | 30,444 | 90.52% | 1051 / 1000 |
| Karkal (TMC) | 25,800 | 93.16% | 1043 / 1000 |
| Saligram (TP) | 15,123 | 86.32% | 1105 / 1000 |
| Udyavara (CT) | 11,854 | 91.80% | 1124 / 1000 |
| Nadsal (CT) | 11,611 | 94.37% | 1025 / 1000 |
| Koteshwar (CT) | 10,229 | 86.41% | 1093 / 1000 |
| Badagabettu (No.80) (CT) | 9,309 | 91.48% | 902 / 1000 |