over the decade 2001-2011 was 2.55%. Mandya has a sex ratio of 989 females for every 1,000 males, and a literacy rate of 70.14%. 17.08% of the population lives in urban areas. Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes make up 14.69% and 1.24% of the population respectively.

At the time of the 2011 census, 91.92% of the population spoke Kannada, 4.24% Urdu, 1.34%