Ujjain
Population
- Population
- 19.87 LIndia 121.09 Cr
- Urban %
- 39.22%India 31.14%
Literacy
- Literacy
- 72.34%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 83.46%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 60.74%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 22.72 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 955 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 930 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 13.65%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 26.37%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 2.45%India 8.63%
- Household
- 5.08India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 45.17%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 33.80%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 76.01%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 54.83%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.
Ujjain in context
With 19,86,864 people at the 2011 Census, Ujjain was the 233rd most populous of India's 640 districts and the 10th most populous of Madhya Pradesh's 50. That is 2.7% of everyone living in Madhya Pradesh at the time.
Literacy stood at 72.34%, 0.6 points below the national 72.98% — 3.0 points above the Madhya Pradesh average. That ranked it 314th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 22.7 points, 6.5 points above the national gap of 16.3.
The sex ratio was 955 women per 1,000 men (24 above the Madhya Pradesh figure of 931).
Ujjain contained 9 towns — 8 with a municipal body of some kind, and 1 classed as census towns, meaning they met the census's urban test without having one. The largest was Ujjain (M Corp.), with 5,15,215 people. That put 39.2% of the district in urban areas, 11.6 points above the Madhya Pradesh share of 27.6%.
Towns in Ujjain
Ujjain has 9 census towns. The largest are listed below.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ujjain (M Corp.) | 5.15 L | 84.43% | 945 / 1000 |
| Nagda (M) | 1.00 L | 80.71% | 947 / 1000 |
| Khacharod (M) | 34,191 | 79.10% | 971 / 1000 |
| Badnagar (M) | 32,418 | 84.88% | 948 / 1000 |
| Mahidpur (M) | 31,650 | 80.33% | 956 / 1000 |
| Tarana (NP) | 24,908 | 80.22% | 942 / 1000 |
| Unhel (NP) | 14,774 | 72.65% | 968 / 1000 |
| Makdon (NP) | 11,678 | 69.98% | 967 / 1000 |