Dhanbad

With 26,84,487 people at the 2011 Census, Dhanbad was the 149th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 2nd most populous of Jharkhand's 24. That is 8.1% of everyone living in Jharkhand at the time.

Literacy stood at 74.52%, 1.5 points above the national 72.98% — 8.1 points above the Jharkhand average. That ranked it 269th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 19.5 points, 3.3 points above the national gap of 16.3.

The sex ratio was 909 women per 1,000 men (39 below the Jharkhand figure of 948).

31.5% of the population were recorded as workers, 8.3 points below the Jharkhand rate. Female work participation was 14.5%, 14.6 points below the state figure.

Dhanbad contained 46 towns — 2 with a municipal body of some kind, and 44 classed as census towns, meaning they met the census's urban test without having one. The largest was Dhanbad (M Corp.), with 11,62,472 people. That put 58.1% of the district in urban areas, 34.1 points above the Jharkhand share of 24.1%.