Bastar District Population, Chhattisgarh - Census India 2011

Bastar is one of district of Chhattisgarh in India. There are 12 Taluks, 1,150 villages and 6 towns in Bastar district.

As per the Census India 2011, Bastar district has 311,538 households, population of 1,413,199 of which 698,487 are males and 714,712 are females. The population of children between age 0-6 is 216,713 which is 15.33% of total population.

The sex-ratio of Bastar district is around 1023 compared to 991 which is average of Chhattisgarh state. The literacy rate of Bastar district is 46.06% out of which 54.74% males are literate and 37.57% females are literate. The total area of Bastar is 10,470 sq.km with population density of 135 per sq.km.

Out of total population, 86.31% of population lives in Urban area and 13.69% lives in Rural area. There are 2.69% Scheduled Caste (SC) and 65.93% Scheduled Tribe (ST) of total population in Bastar district.

Bastar Religion Population

Description	Population	Percentage
Total	1,413,199	100%
Hindu	1,277,975	90.43%
Other religions and persuasions	86,925	6.15%
Christian	27,951	1.98%
Muslim	12,413	0.88%
Jain	3,466	0.25%
Sikh	2,099	0.15%
Religion not stated	1,385	0.1%
Buddhist	985	0.07%

Bastar Urban & Rural Population

Out of total population, 50% of population lives in Urban area and 60% lives in Rural area

Description	Urban	Rural
Area(sq.km)	177	10,293
Number of households	43,280	268,258
Total Population	193,494	1,219,705
Population (%)	50.56%	50.75%
Male Population	97,835	600,652
Female Population	95,659	619,053
Sex Ratio	978	1031
Literacy (%)	72.25%	41.9%

List of Taluks in Bastar

Check out complete list of all Taluks of Bastar district, Chhattisgarh

Bastar Population Facts

Number of Households	311,538
Population	1,413,199
Male Population	698,487 (49.43%)
Female Population	714,712 (50.57%)
Children Population	216,713
Area	10,470 km2
Population density/km2	135
Sex-ratio	1023
Literacy	46.06%
Male Literacy	54.74%
Female Literacy	37.57%
Scheduled Tribes (ST) %	65.93%
Scheduled Caste (SC) %	2.69%