Bokaro

With 20,62,330 people at the 2011 Census, Bokaro was the 222nd most populous of India's 640 districts and the 5th most populous of Jharkhand's 24. That is 6.3% of everyone living in Jharkhand at the time.

Literacy stood at 72.01%, 1.0 points below the national 72.98% — 5.6 points above the Jharkhand average. That ranked it 325th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 21.9 points, 5.6 points above the national gap of 16.3.

The sex ratio was 922 women per 1,000 men (26 below the Jharkhand figure of 948).

33.2% of the population were recorded as workers, 6.5 points below the Jharkhand rate. Female work participation was 18.0%, 11.1 points below the state figure.

Bokaro contained 27 towns — 2 with a municipal body of some kind, and 25 classed as census towns, meaning they met the census's urban test without having one. The largest was Bokaro Steel City (CT), with 4,14,820 people. That put 47.7% of the district in urban areas, 23.7 points above the Jharkhand share of 24.1%.