Darjiling
Population
- Population
- 18.47 LIndia 121.09 Cr
- Urban %
- 39.42%India 31.14%
Literacy
- Literacy
- 79.56%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 85.61%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 73.33%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 12.28 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 970 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 953 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 10.46%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 17.18%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 21.52%India 8.63%
- Household
- 4.72India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 37.02%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 22.44%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 77.93%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 62.98%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.
Darjiling in context
With 18,46,823 people at the 2011 Census, Darjiling was the 257th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 18th most populous of West Bengal's 19. That is 2.0% of everyone living in West Bengal at the time.
Literacy stood at 79.56%, 6.6 points above the national 72.98% — 3.3 points above the West Bengal average. That ranked it 168th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 12.3 points, 4.0 points below the national gap of 16.3.
The sex ratio was 970 women per 1,000 men (20 above the West Bengal figure of 950). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 953, 35 above the national 918.
Darjiling contained 29 towns — 5 with a municipal body of some kind, and 24 classed as census towns, meaning they met the census's urban test without having one. The largest urban settlement was the part of Siliguri (M Corp.) falling inside the district, with 2,94,546 people. That put 39.4% of the district in urban areas, 7.6 points above the West Bengal share of 31.9%.
Towns in Darjiling
Darjiling has 29 census towns. The largest are listed below.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Siliguri (M Corp.) (Part) | 2.95 L | 86.43% | 944 / 1000 |
| Darjiling (M) | 1.19 L | 93.85% | 1007 / 1000 |
| Kalimpong (M) | 49,403 | 90.19% | 968 / 1000 |
| Kurseong (M) | 42,446 | 93.73% | 981 / 1000 |
| Uttar Bagdogra (CT) | 25,044 | 90.11% | 817 / 1000 |
| Bara Mohansingh (CT) | 15,616 | 89.83% | 1003 / 1000 |
| Tari (CT) | 14,558 | 69.25% | 985 / 1000 |
| Cart Road (CT) | 14,444 | 89.65% | 1030 / 1000 |