West Godavari
Population
- Population
- 39.37 LIndia 121.09 Cr
- Urban %
- 20.54%India 31.14%
Literacy
- Literacy
- 74.63%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 77.92%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 71.36%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 6.56 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 1004 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 964 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 9.73%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 20.62%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 2.77%India 8.63%
- Household
- 3.61India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 45.04%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 29.10%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 86.52%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 54.96%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.
West Godavari in context
With 39,36,966 people at the 2011 Census, West Godavari was the 62nd most populous of India's 640 districts and the 11th most populous of Andhra Pradesh's 23. That is 4.7% of everyone living in Andhra Pradesh at the time.
Literacy stood at 74.63%, 1.6 points above the national 72.98% — 7.6 points above the Andhra Pradesh average. That ranked it 267th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 6.6 points, 9.7 points below the national gap of 16.3.
The sex ratio was 1004 women per 1,000 men (11 above the Andhra Pradesh figure of 993) — one of the minority of districts where women outnumbered men. Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 964, 46 above the national 918.
Female work participation was 29.1%, 7.1 points below the state figure.
West Godavari contained 13 towns — 8 with a municipal body of some kind, and 5 classed as census towns, meaning they met the census's urban test without having one. The largest was Eluru (M Corp.), with 2,03,780 people. That put 20.5% of the district in urban areas, 12.8 points below the Andhra Pradesh share of 33.4%.
Towns in West Godavari
West Godavari has 13 census towns. The largest are listed below.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Eluru (M Corp.) | 2.04 L | 83.90% | 1028 / 1000 |
| Bhimavaram (M) | 1.42 L | 83.05% | 1030 / 1000 |
| Tadepalligudem (M) | 1.04 L | 82.69% | 1022 / 1000 |
| Tanuku (M) | 72,348 | 85.19% | 1038 / 1000 |
| Palacole (M) | 61,284 | 86.47% | 1027 / 1000 |
| Narasapur (M) | 58,770 | 86.24% | 1041 / 1000 |
| Nidadavole (M) | 43,809 | 81.16% | 1059 / 1000 |
| Kovvur (M) | 39,667 | 82.14% | 1061 / 1000 |