Dimapur

With 3,78,811 people at the 2011 Census, Dimapur was the 564th most populous of India's 640 districts and the most populous of Nagaland's 11. That is 19.1% of everyone living in Nagaland at the time.

Literacy stood at 84.79%, 11.8 points above the national 72.98% — 5.2 points above the Nagaland average. That ranked it 74th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 5.8 points, 10.5 points below the national gap of 16.3.

The sex ratio was 919 women per 1,000 men (12 below the Nagaland figure of 931). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 966, 48 above the national 918.

40.0% of the population were recorded as workers, 9.3 points below the Nagaland rate. Female work participation was 28.5%, 16.2 points below the state figure.

Dimapur contained 7 towns — 3 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 Dimapur (MC), with 1,22,834 people. That put 52.2% of the district in urban areas, 23.4 points above the Nagaland share of 28.9%.