Bhopal Population

Bhopal (M.Corp.) is a city and municipal corporation/corporation in the Huzur Tehsil of Bhopal district in Madhya Pradesh. Each ward in Bhopal has a population of 382690, and the city is divided into 70 sections. Every five years, Bhopal residents vote for a ward representative. Bhopal has a population of 1798218, of which 936168 are men, and 862050 are women, according to the 2011 census in India. 216088 children under six live in the United States, or 12.02 percent of the population. Bhopal's sex-to-population ratio is 921, whereas the state average is 931. The city of Bhopal has a literacy rate of 73.44 percent, with 76.93 percent of males and 69.66 percent of females able to read and write. Bhopal's entire population comprises 13.46% Scheduled Castes (SC) and 2.56% Scheduled Tribes (ST).

Huzur tehsil of Bhopal district contains the city of Bhopal, a municipal corporation. Elections are held every five years in Bhopal's 70 wards. Bhopal has a population of 382,690 families, according to the 2011 census. 936,168 men and 862,050 women make up the city's population of 1,798,218; consequently, the city's average sex ratio is 921.

Bhopal has 216088 children under six, or about 13% of the city's population. Between 0 and 6, there are 112602 male children and 103486 female youngsters. Thus, according to 2011 Census, Bhopal's Child Sex Ratio is 919, which is lower than the national average (921).

According to the 2011 census, Bhopal's literacy rate is 83.5 percent. On the other hand, Bhopal has a literacy rate of 89.4 percent, compared to Bhopal's 80.4 percent. 87.45 percent of men and 79.16 percent of women are educated in Bhopal.

The Bhopal Municipal Corporation administers 382,690 residences and provides them with essential services, including water and sewage. In addition, it has the authority to construct roads within the boundaries of the Municipal Corporation and to levy taxes on properties that fall under its purview.

The Municipal Corporation of Bhopal

The following are some basic facts about the Bhopal Municipal Corporation, taken from the 2011 Population Census.

	Total	Male	Female
Children	216,088	112,602	103,486
Literacy	83.5%	76.9%	69.7%
Scheduled Caste	242,103	125,393	116,710
Scheduled Tribe	46,076	23,863	22,213
Illiterate	477,543	215,961	261,582

 

Population by Caste in Bhopal

Bhopal's entire population comprised 13.5 percent Schedule Castes and 2.6 percent Schedule Tribes. Bhopal has a religiously diverse population.

As of 2011, there were 1,244,425 Hindus in Bhopal, making up 69.2 percent of the city's population. Bhopal has 472,578 Muslims or 26.28 percent of the city's population. This chart shows the religious composition of the city of Bhopal's population, based on data from the 2011 Census.

With a population of 69.20% Hindus, Bhopal is home to the largest religion. About 26.28 percent of Bhopal residents practice Islam, making it the city's second most prevalent religion. 1.12% of Bhopal residents follow Christianity, 1.35 percentdo Jainism, 0.57 percent do Sikhism, and 0.57 percent do Buddhism. Approximately 0.37 percent of respondents answered that they have no religion at all.

Description	Total	Percentage
Hindu	1,244,425	69.20 %
Muslims	472,578	26.28 %
Christian	20,205	1.12 %
Sikh	10,247	0.57 %
Buddhist	19,481	1.08 %
Jain	24,267	1.35 %
Others	296	0.02 %
Not Stated	6,719	0.37 %

 

Bhopal's Literacy Rate

Bhopal's 2011 literacy rate of 83.47 percent was higher than Madhya Pradesh's average of 69.32 percent. There were 720,207 men and 600,468 women among the 1,320,675 literate residents. In Bhopal, the male literacy rate was 87.45 percent, while the female literacy rate was 79.16 percent.

Bhopal's sex ratio

Bhopal's Sex Ratio is 921:1. In Bhopal, there were 921 women for every 1000 men. Bhopal's Child Sex Ratio was 919 in 2011, lower than the city's average Sex Ratio of 921.

Bhopal's Child Population

Bhopal had 216,088 children under six in 2011, according to the census. There were 112,602 males and 103,486 females in the total sample.

Bhopal's Working Population

The Bhopal Municipal Corporation employed 631,112 people from the city's total population. About 85.4% of workers say their job is their primary source of income (employment or earnings for at least six months), while 14.6% say their only source of income for the past six months is marginal. 5,193 of the 631,112 workers in the Main Work were cultivators (owners or co-owners), while 8,030 were agricultural laborers (laborers).

Bhopal District's Urban/Rural Population

According to the 2011 Census, urban areas housed 80.85% of Bhopal's population, while rural areas held 19.15% of the city's total. Among the 1,917,051 residents of urban areas, 998,105 were males, and the rest 918,946 were females. A total of 238,025 males and 215,985 females reside in rural Bhopal.

Bhopal's urban areas had 921 females for every 1000 males on average. In metropolitan parts of Bhopal, the child sex ratio was 918 girls for every 1000 males. Bhopal's urban population of 231,550 included 231,550 children ages 0-6 (12% of the total urban population). In rural regions of Bhopal, the average sex ratio was 907 girls for every 1000 males. Rural Bhopal had a child sex ratio of 926 girls for every 1000 boys.

Bhopal had an urban literacy rate of 83.41 percent, with males having an average literacy rate of 87.44 percent and females having an average literacy rate of 79.04 percent. The city of Bhopal had a population of 1,660,690 literate people. Bhopal's rural sections have an average 66.91 percent literacy rate. Males' literacy rate was 76.56 percent, while females' was 56.23 percent. 254,810 people in rural Bhopal could read and write.