Barpeta
Population
- Population
- 16.94 LIndia 121.09 Cr
- Urban %
- 8.70%India 31.14%
Literacy
- Literacy
- 63.81%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 69.29%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 58.06%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 11.23 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 953 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 961 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 16.99%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 5.63%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 1.61%India 8.63%
- Household
- 5.01India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 33.17%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 14.10%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 78.22%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 66.83%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.
Barpeta in context
With 16,93,622 people at the 2011 Census, Barpeta was the 292nd most populous of India's 640 districts and the 5th most populous of Assam's 27. That is 5.4% of everyone living in Assam at the time.
Literacy stood at 63.81%, 9.2 points below the national 72.98% — 8.4 points below the Assam average. That ranked it 507th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 11.2 points, 5.0 points below the national gap of 16.3.
The sex ratio was 953 women per 1,000 men (5 below the Assam figure of 958). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 961, 43 above the national 918.
33.2% of the population were recorded as workers, 5.2 points below the Assam rate. Female work participation was 14.1%, 8.4 points below the state figure.
Barpeta contained 9 towns — 6 with a municipal body of some kind, and 3 classed as census towns, meaning they met the census's urban test without having one. The largest was Barpeta (MB), with 42,649 people. That put 8.7% of the district in urban areas, 5.4 points below the Assam share of 14.1%.
Towns in Barpeta
Barpeta has 9 census towns. The largest are listed below.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Barpeta (MB) | 42,649 | 90.77% | 1008 / 1000 |
| Barpeta Road (MB) | 35,571 | 87.23% | 924 / 1000 |
| Howli (TC) | 18,301 | 79.17% | 948 / 1000 |
| Pathsala (TC) | 11,242 | 92.80% | 930 / 1000 |
| Khaira Bari (CT) | 10,210 | 71.39% | 916 / 1000 |
| Bohari (CT) | 8,264 | 78.68% | 947 / 1000 |
| Sarbhog (TC) | 8,112 | 88.05% | 988 / 1000 |
| Sarthebari (TC) | 6,913 | 91.79% | 1008 / 1000 |