Baksa
Population
- Population
- 9.50 LIndia 121.09 Cr
- Urban %
- 1.29%India 31.14%
Literacy
- Literacy
- 69.25%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 77.03%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 61.27%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 15.76 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 974 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 966 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 12.93%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 7.69%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 34.84%India 8.63%
- Household
- 4.96India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 42.81%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 29.90%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 68.42%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 57.19%India 60.20%
Population density, land area and decadal growth are not published in the Primary Census Abstract and so are unavailable at district level. See Methodology.
Baksa in context
With 9,50,075 people at the 2011 Census, Baksa was the 459th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 18th most populous of Assam's 27. That is 3.0% of everyone living in Assam at the time.
Literacy stood at 69.25%, 3.7 points below the national 72.98% — 2.9 points below the Assam average. That ranked it 395th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 15.8 points, level with the national gap of 16.3.
The sex ratio was 974 women per 1,000 men (16 above the Assam figure of 958). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 966, 48 above the national 918.
42.8% of the population were recorded as workers, 4.5 points above the Assam rate. Female work participation was 29.9%, 7.4 points above the state figure.
Baksa contained 2 towns, all of them census towns: urban by the census's test, but without a municipal body. The largest was Takhlibilar Pathar (CT), with 6,611 people. That put 1.3% of the district in urban areas, 12.8 points below the Assam share of 14.1%.
Towns in Baksa
Baksa has 2 census towns. The largest are listed below.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Takhlibilar Pathar (CT) | 6,611 | 63.91% | 934 / 1000 |
| No.2 Goreswar (CT) | 5,631 | 86.40% | 952 / 1000 |