Background: The fruits of economic growth cannot felt unless population explosion is prevented. The contraceptive usage in community depends on various factors like socioeconomic class, religion, education, parity, preference for male children etc. The study was done to know the sociodemographic profile of contraceptive users Objective: To assess the prevalence of contraceptive usage and to find out reasons for non acceptance. Methodology: community based cross-sectional study of the married women residing in an urban slum of Bijapur. Results: couple protection rate was 65.3%. Tubectomy (56.6%) was most common method of contraception. Contraceptive usage was more in families were women was from upper class, nuclear family, higher age group, high parity and had sons. These associations were found to be statistically significant. 34.7 % women were non acceptors of contraception. The most common reason for non acceptance was pregnancy and lactation (34.6%) and intending for more children (24.1%). Other important reasons were fertility related reasons, Opposition to use, Lack of awareness, and Fear of side effects. Conclusion: Contraceptive usage in community can be increased by improving IEC activities and quality of family planning services.