Ganjam District Population, Odisha - Census India 2011

Ganjam is one of district of Odisha in India. There are 30 Taluks, 3,195 villages and 39 towns in Ganjam district.

As per the Census India 2011, Ganjam district has 758,267 households, population of 3,529,031 of which 1,779,218 are males and 1,749,813 are females. The population of children between age 0-6 is 420,158 which is 11.91% of total population.

The sex-ratio of Ganjam district is around 983 compared to 979 which is average of Odisha state. The literacy rate of Ganjam district is 62.62% out of which 70.97% males are literate and 54.14% females are literate. The total area of Ganjam is 8,206 sq.km with population density of 430 per sq.km.

Out of total population, 78.24% of population lives in Urban area and 21.76% lives in Rural area. There are 19.5% Scheduled Caste (SC) and 3.37% Scheduled Tribe (ST) of total population in Ganjam district.

Ganjam Religion Population

Description	Population	Percentage
Total	3,529,031	100%
Hindu	3,486,059	98.78%
Christian	23,975	0.68%
Muslim	13,315	0.38%
Religion not stated	4,672	0.13%
Sikh	590	0.02%
Buddhist	174	0%
Jain	170	0%
Other religions and persuasions	76	0%

Ganjam 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)	360	7,846
Number of households	162,205	596,062
Total Population	768,001	2,761,030
Population (%)	51.51%	49.89%
Male Population	395,582	1,383,636
Female Population	372,419	1,377,394
Sex Ratio	941	995
Literacy (%)	74.86%	59.22%

List of Taluks in Ganjam

Check out complete list of all Taluks of Ganjam district, Odisha

Ganjam Population Facts

Number of Households	758,267
Population	3,529,031
Male Population	1,779,218 (50.42%)
Female Population	1,749,813 (49.58%)
Children Population	420,158
Area	8,206 km2
Population density/km2	430
Sex-ratio	983
Literacy	62.62%
Male Literacy	70.97%
Female Literacy	54.14%
Scheduled Tribes (ST) %	3.37%
Scheduled Caste (SC) %	19.5%