Uttara Kannada
Population
- Population
- 14.37 LIndia 121.09 Cr
- Urban %
- 29.15%India 31.14%
Literacy
- Literacy
- 84.06%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 89.63%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 78.39%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 11.24 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 979 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 955 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 10.45%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 8.10%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 2.38%India 8.63%
- Household
- 4.43India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 42.34%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 25.03%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 81.89%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 57.66%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.
Uttara Kannada in context
With 14,37,169 people at the 2011 Census, Uttara Kannada was the 345th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 20th most populous of Karnataka's 30. That is 2.4% of everyone living in Karnataka at the time.
Literacy stood at 84.06%, 11.1 points above the national 72.98% — 8.7 points above the Karnataka average. That ranked it 88th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 11.2 points, 5.0 points below the national gap of 16.3.
The sex ratio was 979 women per 1,000 men (6 above the Karnataka figure of 973). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 955, 37 above the national 918.
42.3% of the population were recorded as workers, 3.3 points below the Karnataka rate. Female work participation was 25.0%, 6.8 points below the state figure.
Uttara Kannada contained 18 towns — 11 with a municipal body of some kind, and 7 classed as census towns, meaning they met the census's urban test without having one. The largest was Karwar (CMC), with 63,755 people. That put 29.1% of the district in urban areas, 9.5 points below the Karnataka share of 38.7%.
Towns in Uttara Kannada
Uttara Kannada has 18 census towns. The largest are listed below.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Karwar (CMC) | 63,755 | 93.21% | 980 / 1000 |
| Sirsi (CMC) | 62,882 | 92.82% | 1014 / 1000 |
| Dandeli (CMC) | 52,069 | 87.55% | 987 / 1000 |
| Bhatkal (TMC) | 32,000 | 94.12% | 949 / 1000 |
| Kumta (TMC) | 29,266 | 91.28% | 1009 / 1000 |
| Haliyal (TP) | 24,238 | 84.41% | 986 / 1000 |
| Yellapur (TP) | 20,452 | 89.56% | 995 / 1000 |
| Honavar (TP) | 19,109 | 93.29% | 1006 / 1000 |