TREND AND PATTERN OF URBAN POPULATION GROWTH IN MYSORE DISTRICT – A SPATIO-TEMPORAL ANALYSIS

“An increase in the number of people that reside in a country, state, county, or city is known as Population Growth” (WHO). It is denotes the important characteristics of population composition. Population growth is varies from one region to another. Population size will vary from rural to urban area. Both regions are having difference in the form of their population size, distribution, density and composition. In this present research article has made an attempt to examine the pattern of urban/town population growth in Mysore district from 1961 to 2011.For this research six decades population data were taken for analyze the pattern of urban population growth in the district and also comparison between the taluks. Urban area's population is more than the rural area. In these six decades trend of urban /town, population was gradually increasing in the district, but it varies from one taluk to another. Rural people are more migrated to urban areas for different purpose such as Education, Job, Health treatments and other reasons. Some less development areas people are migrated towards urban area for hope getting to better standard of living. Pull and push factors are more influenced in the population growth.