Yadgir
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.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yadgir (CMC) | 74,294 | 74.41% | 1008 / 1000 |
| Shahpur (TMC) | 53,366 | 72.57% | 962 / 1000 |
| Shorapur (TMC) | 51,398 | 69.79% | 994 / 1000 |
| Gurmatkal (TP) | 20,614 | 68.76% | 957 / 1000 |
| Bhimarayanagudi (NAC) | 8,029 | 72.18% | 921 / 1000 |
| Gogipeth (CT) | 7,544 | 71.42% | 971 / 1000 |
| Saidapur (CT) | 5,432 | 67.71% | 993 / 1000 |