Umaria

With 6,44,758 people at the 2011 Census, Umaria was the 512th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 49th most populous of Madhya Pradesh's 50. That is 0.9% of everyone living in Madhya Pradesh at the time.

Literacy stood at 65.89%, 7.1 points below the national 72.98% — 3.4 points below the Madhya Pradesh average. That ranked it 468th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 20.8 points, 4.5 points above the national gap of 16.3.

The sex ratio was 950 women per 1,000 men (19 above the Madhya Pradesh figure of 931). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 943, 25 above the national 918.

Umaria contained 7 towns — 4 with a municipal body of some kind, and 3 classed as census towns, meaning they met the census's urban test without having one. The largest was Umaria (M), with 33,114 people. That put 17.1% of the district in urban areas, 10.5 points below the Madhya Pradesh share of 27.6%.