Wardha
Population
- Population
- 13.01 LIndia 121.09 Cr
- Urban %
- 32.54%India 31.14%
Literacy
- Literacy
- 86.99%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 91.92%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 81.81%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 10.11 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 946 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 919 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 9.91%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 14.52%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 11.49%India 8.63%
- Household
- 4.20India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 46.76%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 34.14%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 87.08%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 53.24%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.
Wardha in context
With 13,00,774 people at the 2011 Census, Wardha was the 377th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 30th most populous of Maharashtra's 35. That is 1.2% of everyone living in Maharashtra at the time.
Literacy stood at 86.99%, 14.0 points above the national 72.98% — 4.6 points above the Maharashtra average. That ranked it 47th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 10.1 points, 6.1 points below the national gap of 16.3.
The sex ratio was 946 women per 1,000 men (17 above the Maharashtra figure of 929).
Wardha contained 13 towns — 6 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 Wardha (M Cl), with 1,06,444 people. That put 32.5% of the district in urban areas, 12.7 points below the Maharashtra share of 45.2%.
Towns in Wardha
Wardha has 13 census towns. The largest are listed below.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wardha (M Cl) | 1.06 L | 93.77% | 982 / 1000 |
| Hinganghat (M Cl) | 1.02 L | 93.25% | 936 / 1000 |
| Arvi (M Cl) | 42,822 | 90.56% | 950 / 1000 |
| Pulgaon (M Cl) | 33,925 | 91.22% | 931 / 1000 |
| Pipri (CT) | 23,661 | 93.79% | 939 / 1000 |
| Sindi Turf Hindnagar (CT) | 20,956 | 94.06% | 936 / 1000 |
| Borgaon (Meghe) (CT) | 19,759 | 92.53% | 930 / 1000 |
| Deoli (M Cl) | 19,288 | 88.04% | 930 / 1000 |