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Assam districts

Assam

Baksa

9,50,075
people at the 2011 Census · 4.81 L male, 4.69 L female

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.

Largest towns in Baksa by 2011 Census population.
TownPopulationLiteracySex ratio
Takhlibilar Pathar (CT)6,61163.91%934 / 1000
No.2 Goreswar (CT)5,63186.40%952 / 1000