Vidisha

With 14,58,875 people at the 2011 Census, Vidisha was the 339th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 21st most populous of Madhya Pradesh's 50. That is 2.0% of everyone living in Madhya Pradesh at the time.

Literacy stood at 70.53%, 2.5 points below the national 72.98% — 1.2 points above the Madhya Pradesh average. That ranked it 365th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 18.3 points, 2.0 points above the national gap of 16.3.

The sex ratio was 896 women per 1,000 men (35 below the Madhya Pradesh figure of 931).

37.7% of the population were recorded as workers, 5.7 points below the Madhya Pradesh rate. Female work participation was 21.6%, 11.1 points below the state figure.

Vidisha contained 7 towns — 6 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 Vidisha (M), with 1,55,951 people. That put 23.3% of the district in urban areas, 4.3 points below the Madhya Pradesh share of 27.6%.