In accordance with Census 2011 there are 37,521,324 Odia speakers in India covering 3,10 % of the country's total population.

Odia speakers are mainly concentrated in the states of:

Among the districts in Odisha, the highest proportion of Odia speakers is noticed in:

Outside Odisha significant proportion of Odia speakers is noticed in Jharkhand in Pashchimi Singhbhum - पश्चिमी सिंहभूम (18.74 %), Saraikela Kharsawan - सरायकेला-खरसावां (9.48 %), and Purbi Singhbhum - पूर्वी सिंहभूम (5.27 %), in Chhattisgarh in Mahasamund - महासमुन्द (18.38 %), Bastar - बस्तर (16.58 %), Raigarh - रायगढ़ (9.52 %) and Raipur - रायपुर (5.17 %).


Source: Census of India (2022) Language Atlas of India 2011. url


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