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Karnataka districts

Karnataka

Yadgir

11,74,271
people at the 2011 Census · 5.90 L male, 5.84 L female

Population

Population
11.74 LIndia 121.09 Cr
Urban %
18.79%India 31.14%

Literacy

Literacy
51.83%India 72.98%
Male Lit.
62.25%India 80.88%
Female Lit.
41.38%India 64.63%
Lit. Gap
20.87 ppIndia 16.25 pp

Society

Sex Ratio
989 / 1000India 943 / 1000
Child Sex Ratio
951 / 1000India 918 / 1000
Under 7
16.20%India 13.59%
SC %
23.28%India 16.63%
ST %
12.51%India 8.63%
Household
5.81India 4.85

Work

Workers
46.64%India 39.80%
Female Work
39.48%India 25.52%
Main Workers
79.83%India 75.24%
Non-Workers
53.36%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.

Yadgir in context

With 11,74,271 people at the 2011 Census, Yadgir was the 404th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 24th most populous of Karnataka's 30. That is 1.9% of everyone living in Karnataka at the time.

Literacy stood at 51.83%, 21.2 points below the national 72.98% — 23.5 points below the Karnataka average. That ranked it 623rd of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 20.9 points, 4.6 points above the national gap of 16.3.

The sex ratio was 989 women per 1,000 men (16 above the Karnataka figure of 973). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 951, 33 above the national 918.

Female work participation was 39.5%, 7.6 points above the state figure.

Yadgir contained 7 towns — 5 with a municipal body of some kind, and 2 classed as census towns, meaning they met the census's urban test without having one. The largest was Yadgir (CMC), with 74,294 people. That put 18.8% of the district in urban areas, 19.9 points below the Karnataka share of 38.7%.

Towns in Yadgir

Yadgir has 7 census towns. The largest are listed below.

Largest towns in Yadgir by 2011 Census population.
TownPopulationLiteracySex ratio
Yadgir (CMC)74,29474.41%1008 / 1000
Shahpur (TMC)53,36672.57%962 / 1000
Shorapur (TMC)51,39869.79%994 / 1000
Gurmatkal (TP)20,61468.76%957 / 1000
Bhimarayanagudi (NAC)8,02972.18%921 / 1000
Gogipeth (CT)7,54471.42%971 / 1000
Saidapur (CT)5,43267.71%993 / 1000