Present research paper deal with correlation study between Urban- Rural and urban – rural male – female literacy. Study area is predominantly is tribal area. Most of people lived in the remote areas and hilly region. As per census 2011, In Maharashtra has about 55% population lived in rural areas and 45 % being lived in urban centers. Nandurbar district had a population of 111037 and a 15.45% population lived in urban areas. Dhule district has a population of 376093 about 23% population are urban. Data on population characteristic surmised and calculated with the help of Carl Spearman’s rank order. Correlation between urban and rural literacy = - 0.66, Correlation between urban and rural male literacy = - 0.68, Correlation between urban and rural female literacy = - 0.64, Correlation between urban male and female literacy = 0.98, Correlation between rural male and female literacy = 0.96 and better urban rural differential index (URDI) being amounted +0.09 in Dhule while least urban rural differential index in Sakri tahsil (-0.08).