Dhubri

With 19,49,258 people at the 2011 Census, Dhubri was the 240th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 2nd most populous of Assam's 27. That is 6.2% of everyone living in Assam at the time.

Literacy stood at 58.34%, 14.6 points below the national 72.98% — 13.8 points below the Assam average. That ranked it 584th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 9.8 points, 6.5 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 968, 50 above the national 918.

34.4% of the population were recorded as workers, 4.0 points below the Assam rate. Female work participation was 15.2%, 7.2 points below the state figure.

Dhubri contained 9 towns — 5 with a municipal body of some kind, and 4 classed as census towns, meaning they met the census's urban test without having one. The largest was Dhubri (MB), with 63,388 people. That put 10.4% of the district in urban areas, 3.7 points below the Assam share of 14.1%.