As of 2011 census, the mandal had a population of 53,269 in 13,661 households. The total population constitute, 26,942 males and 26,327 females — a sex ratio of 977 females per 1000 males. 5,839 children are in the age group of 0–6 years, of which 3,058 are boys and 2,781 are girls — a sex ratio of 909 per 1000. The average literacy rate stands at 56.26% with 26,682 literates. Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes make up 14,258 (26.77%) and 3,331 (6.25%) of the population respectively. At the time of the 2011 census, 93.81% of the population spoke
Telugu, 4.62%
Urdu and 1.28%
Lambadi as their first language. ==References==