Uttar Bastar Kanker
Population
- Population
- 7.49 LIndia 121.09 Cr
- Urban %
- 10.25%India 31.14%
Literacy
- Literacy
- 70.29%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 80.03%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 60.64%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 19.39 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 1006 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 978 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 13.37%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 4.21%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 55.38%India 8.63%
- Household
- 4.65India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 51.99%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 45.75%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 73.33%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 48.01%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.
Uttar Bastar Kanker in context
With 7,48,941 people at the 2011 Census, Uttar Bastar Kanker was the 494th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 14th most populous of Chhattisgarh's 18. That is 2.9% of everyone living in Chhattisgarh at the time.
Literacy stood at 70.29%, 2.7 points below the national 72.98% — level with the Chhattisgarh average. That ranked it 373rd of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 19.4 points, 3.1 points above the national gap of 16.3.
The sex ratio was 1006 women per 1,000 men (15 above the Chhattisgarh figure of 991) — one of the minority of districts where women outnumbered men. Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 978, 60 above the national 918.
52.0% of the population were recorded as workers, 4.3 points above the Chhattisgarh rate. Female work participation was 45.8%, 6.0 points above the state figure.
Uttar Bastar Kanker contained 6 towns. The largest was Kanker (M), with 27,541 people. That put 10.3% of the district in urban areas, 13.0 points below the Chhattisgarh share of 23.2%.
Towns in Uttar Bastar Kanker
Uttar Bastar Kanker has 6 census towns. The largest are listed below.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kanker (M) | 27,541 | 88.55% | 1037 / 1000 |
| Pakhanjur (NP) | 10,201 | 86.86% | 900 / 1000 |
| Charama (NP) | 9,707 | 82.39% | 1051 / 1000 |
| Bhanupratappur (NP) | 8,125 | 90.17% | 1012 / 1000 |
| Antagarh (NP) | 6,777 | 82.70% | 989 / 1000 |
| Narharpur (NP) | 4,509 | 83.84% | 1031 / 1000 |