Sambalpur District Population, Odisha - Census India 2011

Sambalpur is one of district of Odisha in India. There are 20 Taluks, 1,313 villages and 7 towns in Sambalpur district.

As per the Census India 2011, Sambalpur district has 249,597 households, population of 1,041,099 of which 526,877 are males and 514,222 are females. The population of children between age 0-6 is 117,848 which is 11.32% of total population.

The sex-ratio of Sambalpur district is around 976 compared to 979 which is average of Odisha state. The literacy rate of Sambalpur district is 67.59% out of which 74.63% males are literate and 60.38% females are literate. The total area of Sambalpur is 6,624 sq.km with population density of 157 per sq.km.

Out of total population, 70.41% of population lives in Urban area and 29.59% lives in Rural area. There are 18.43% Scheduled Caste (SC) and 34.12% Scheduled Tribe (ST) of total population in Sambalpur district.

Sambalpur Religion Population

Description	Population	Percentage
Total	1,041,099	100%
Hindu	964,188	92.61%
Christian	50,637	4.86%
Muslim	20,120	1.93%
Sikh	2,506	0.24%
Religion not stated	2,135	0.21%
Other religions and persuasions	1,117	0.11%
Buddhist	310	0.03%
Jain	86	0.01%

Sambalpur 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)	156	6,468
Number of households	70,186	179,411
Total Population	308,093	733,006
Population (%)	51.34%	49.7%
Male Population	158,185	368,692
Female Population	149,908	364,314
Sex Ratio	948	988
Literacy (%)	75.56%	64.24%

List of Taluks in Sambalpur

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

Sambalpur Population Facts

Number of Households	249,597
Population	1,041,099
Male Population	526,877 (50.61%)
Female Population	514,222 (49.39%)
Children Population	117,848
Area	6,624 km2
Population density/km2	157
Sex-ratio	976
Literacy	67.59%
Male Literacy	74.63%
Female Literacy	60.38%
Scheduled Tribes (ST) %	34.12%
Scheduled Caste (SC) %	18.43%