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Indore population.Households, literacy and work. Primary Census Abstract for this town in Madhya Pradesh, using 2011 geography.
Historical geographic unit. Census 2011 town boundary and classification. The primary total includes the outgrowths (OG) explicitly included in the source name; it is not a municipal-core-only count. The town total is our sum of 2 separately published geographic parts, all sharing this Census town code. This is not a present-day population or an urban-agglomeration total.
Population 1,994,397 people
Households 405,090 PCA households
Literacy rate 85.61% % of people aged 7+
Work participation 36.37% % of all residents
Population, children, literacy and work by sex Scroll the table sideways to see every column.
Indicator · Census 2011 Total Males Females Populationpeople 1,994,397 1,035,912 958,485 Children aged 0–6people aged 0–6 237,842 125,485 112,357 Literate populationliterate people aged 7+ 1,503,842 817,237 686,605 Literacy rate% of the corresponding population aged 7+ 85.61% 89.76% 81.15% Scheduled Castes populationpeople 310,080 160,035 150,045 Scheduled Tribes populationpeople 54,217 28,607 25,610 Total workersCensus workers 725,271 571,144 154,127 Work participation rate% of the corresponding total population 36.37% 55.13% 16.08% Main workersworked at least 6 months 677,625 544,167 133,458 Marginal workersworked less than 6 months 47,646 26,977 20,669 Non-workerspeople 1,269,126 464,768 804,358
Percentages use the denominator shown in the table.
Census of India · original Primary Census Abstract Source access notes and archived workbooks
What stands out in this profile? Census 2011 recorded 405,090 households and 1,994,397 residents. Children aged 0–6 made up 11.93% of residents. Among people aged 7 and above, literacy was 89.76% for males and 81.15% for females. Of 725,271 workers, 93.43% were main workers. What kinds of work were recorded? Scroll the table sideways to see every column.
Economic activity Main workers Marginal workers Cultivators 6,330 1,519 Agricultural labourers 7,212 1,463 Household industry workers 29,046 2,634 Other workers 635,037 42,030
The Census counts economic activity, including qualifying unpaid work.
Source components of this town Scroll the table sideways to see every column.
Published component District code Subdistrict code People Indore (M Corp. + OG) (Part) 439 03541 1,975 Indore (M Corp. + OG) (Part) 439 03543 1,992,422
The profile combines non-overlapping source components.