The population of the district in the year 2001 was 3,513,934. The density of population in the district is 167 persons per square kilometer. Most of the people in the district dwell in the rural areas and only a meager percentage of the population which is equal to 10.57 percent stay in the urban areas. The sex ratio in the district is 973 females per thousand males.
Mahabubnagar district is well known for its greater percent of rural population. This district consists of 1553 Revenue Villages, 1347 Grama Panchayatis, 64 Mandals and 4 Revenue Divisions. Mahabubnagar District has 14 Assembly Constituencies and 2 Parliamentary Constituencies. The important towns in the district are Mahabubnagar, Narayanpet, Atmakur(a), Achampet, Gadwal, Wanaparthy, Jadcherla, Kalwakurthy, Shadnagar, Kodangal, Amarchintha, Makhtal, Alampur, Kollapur and Nagarkurnool[3]. The district Headquarters is approximately 100 km southwest to the state capital Hyderabad.
Telugu is spoken by more than 90 percent of the people in Mahbubnagar and only a very few of them speak in the Urdu Language. Literacy rate in the region is as low as 44.44 percent. Similarly the percentage of working population in the district is 43.19.
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