Yavatmal

With 27,72,348 people at the 2011 Census, Yavatmal was the 141st most populous of India's 640 districts and the 16th most populous of Maharashtra's 35. That is 2.5% of everyone living in Maharashtra at the time.

Literacy stood at 82.82%, 9.8 points above the national 72.98% — level with the Maharashtra average. That ranked it 113th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 13.5 points, 2.8 points below the national gap of 16.3.

The sex ratio was 952 women per 1,000 men (23 above the Maharashtra figure of 929).

48.9% of the population were recorded as workers, 4.9 points above the Maharashtra rate. Female work participation was 40.0%, 8.9 points above the state figure.

Yavatmal contained 18 towns — 9 with a municipal body of some kind, and 9 classed as census towns, meaning they met the census's urban test without having one. The largest was Yavatmal (M Cl), with 1,16,551 people. That put 21.6% of the district in urban areas, 23.6 points below the Maharashtra share of 45.2%.