Dhemaji

With 6,86,133 people at the 2011 Census, Dhemaji was the 506th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 24th most populous of Assam's 27. That is 2.2% of everyone living in Assam at the time.

Literacy stood at 72.70%, level with the national 72.98% — 0.5 points above the Assam average. That ranked it 305th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 14.6 points, 1.6 points below the national gap of 16.3.

The sex ratio was 953 women per 1,000 men (5 below the Assam figure of 958). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 950, 32 above the national 918.

46.2% of the population were recorded as workers, 7.8 points above the Assam rate. Female work participation was 38.9%, 16.4 points above the state figure.

Dhemaji contained 4 towns — 2 with a municipal body of some kind, and 2 classed as census towns, meaning they met the census's urban test without having one. The largest was Silapathar (TC), with 25,662 people. That put 7.0% of the district in urban areas, 7.1 points below the Assam share of 14.1%.