Barddhaman
Population
- Population
- 77.18 LIndia 121.09 Cr
- Urban %
- 39.89%India 31.14%
Literacy
- Literacy
- 76.21%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 82.42%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 69.63%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 12.79 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 945 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 951 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 10.78%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 27.41%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 6.34%India 8.63%
- Household
- 4.46India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 37.72%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 16.48%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 74.43%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 62.28%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.
Barddhaman in context
With 77,17,563 people at the 2011 Census, Barddhaman was the 7th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 3rd most populous of West Bengal's 19. That is 8.5% of everyone living in West Bengal at the time.
Literacy stood at 76.21%, 3.2 points above the national 72.98% — level with the West Bengal average. That ranked it 230th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 12.8 points, 3.5 points below the national gap of 16.3.
The sex ratio was 945 women per 1,000 men (5 below the West Bengal figure of 950). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 951, 33 above the national 918.
Barddhaman contained 99 towns — 11 with a municipal body of some kind, and 88 classed as census towns, meaning they met the census's urban test without having one. The largest was Durgapur (M Corp.), with 5,66,517 people. That put 39.9% of the district in urban areas, 8.0 points above the West Bengal share of 31.9%.
Towns in Barddhaman
Barddhaman has 99 census towns. The largest are listed below.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Durgapur (M Corp.) | 5.67 L | 86.02% | 925 / 1000 |
| Asansol (M Corp.) | 5.64 L | 83.30% | 929 / 1000 |
| Barddhaman (M) | 3.14 L | 88.31% | 965 / 1000 |
| Kulti (M) | 3.14 L | 75.41% | 923 / 1000 |
| Jamuria (M) | 1.45 L | 71.95% | 926 / 1000 |
| Raniganj (M) | 1.29 L | 77.65% | 915 / 1000 |
| Katwa (M) | 81,615 | 87.13% | 974 / 1000 |
| Kalna (M) | 56,722 | 87.04% | 970 / 1000 |