Bongaigaon

With 7,38,804 people at the 2011 Census, Bongaigaon was the 495th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 23rd most populous of Assam's 27. That is 2.4% of everyone living in Assam at the time.

Literacy stood at 69.74%, 3.2 points below the national 72.98% — 2.5 points below the Assam average. That ranked it 382nd of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 10.4 points, 5.8 points below the national gap of 16.3.

The sex ratio was 966 women per 1,000 men (8 above the Assam figure of 958). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 969, 51 above the national 918.

34.6% of the population were recorded as workers, 3.7 points below the Assam rate. Female work participation was 16.1%, 6.4 points below the state figure.

Bongaigaon contained 5 towns — 2 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 Bongaigaon (MB), with 67,322 people. That put 14.9% of the district in urban areas, 0.8 points above the Assam share of 14.1%.