Chirang
Population
- Population
- 4.82 LIndia 121.09 Cr
- Urban %
- 7.33%India 31.14%
Literacy
- Literacy
- 63.55%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 70.24%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 56.65%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 13.59 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 969 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 968 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 15.18%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 7.29%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 37.06%India 8.63%
- Household
- 4.95India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 40.21%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 27.45%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 71.70%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 59.79%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.
Chirang in context
With 4,82,162 people at the 2011 Census, Chirang was the 547th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 26th most populous of Assam's 27. That is 1.5% of everyone living in Assam at the time.
Literacy stood at 63.55%, 9.4 points below the national 72.98% — 8.6 points below the Assam average. That ranked it 514th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 13.6 points, 2.7 points below the national gap of 16.3.
The sex ratio was 969 women per 1,000 men (11 above the Assam figure of 958). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 968, 50 above the national 918.
Chirang contained 3 towns — 2 with a municipal body of some kind, and 1 classed as census towns, meaning they met the census's urban test without having one. The largest was Basugaon (TC), with 13,849 people. That put 7.3% of the district in urban areas, 6.8 points below the Assam share of 14.1%.
Towns in Chirang
Chirang has 3 census towns. The largest are listed below.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Basugaon (TC) | 13,849 | 84.58% | 943 / 1000 |
| Bijni (TC) | 13,257 | 89.37% | 984 / 1000 |
| Chatibor Gaon (CT) | 8,231 | 60.72% | 980 / 1000 |