Champhai
Population
- Population
- 1.26 LIndia 121.09 Cr
- Urban %
- 38.59%India 31.14%
Literacy
- Literacy
- 95.91%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 97.21%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 94.59%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 2.62 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 984 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 971 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 16.42%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 0.01%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 98.19%India 8.63%
- Household
- 4.93India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 47.99%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 42.04%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 88.02%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 52.01%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.
Champhai in context
With 1,25,745 people at the 2011 Census, Champhai was the 610th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 3rd most populous of Mizoram's 8. That is 11.5% of everyone living in Mizoram at the time.
Literacy stood at 95.91%, 22.9 points above the national 72.98% — 4.6 points above the Mizoram average. That ranked it 6th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 2.6 points, 13.6 points below the national gap of 16.3.
The sex ratio was 984 women per 1,000 men (8 above the Mizoram figure of 976). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 971, 53 above the national 918.
48.0% of the population were recorded as workers, 3.6 points above the Mizoram rate. Female work participation was 42.0%, 5.9 points above the state figure.
Champhai contained 4 towns. The largest was Champhai (NT), with 32,734 people. That put 38.6% of the district in urban areas, 13.5 points below the Mizoram share of 52.1%.
Towns in Champhai
Champhai has 4 census towns. The largest are listed below.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Champhai (NT) | 32,734 | 96.54% | 1013 / 1000 |
| Khawzawl (NT) | 11,022 | 96.64% | 963 / 1000 |
| Khawhai (NT) | 2,496 | 97.46% | 976 / 1000 |
| Biate (NT) | 2,277 | 98.18% | 1008 / 1000 |