The administrative headquarters of the district is the city of Vadodara (Baroda).

[7] The Vadodara district has a dry climate and three distinct seasons, namely summer, winter and monsoon.

[1] It has a literacy rate of 81.21% in 2011, a ten percentage points increase in 10 years.

[1] The divided district has a population of 3,093,795, of which 1,993,356 (64.43%) lived in urban areas.

The divided district had a sex ratio of 923 females per 1000 males.