Estimated number of female sex worker (FSW) sex acts per district per year
| District | Number of FSWs | Paying client sex acts | Other non-commercial sex acts | Total sex acts | Mean number of sex acts per FSW per year |
| Shimoga | 1587 | 836538 | 121119 | 958656 | 603 |
| Belgaum | 2000 | 1611353 | 100744 | 1712097 | 856 |
| Bellary | 3852 | 3866336 | 249451 | 4115787 | 1068 |
| Mysore | 1950 | 932316 | 111995 | 1044311 | 536 |
| Bangalore | 24301 | 11878329 | 1976225 | 13854554 | 570 |
| Total | 33690 | 19124871 | 2559534 | 21684405 | 644 |