Dumka
Population
- Population
- 13.21 LIndia 121.09 Cr
- Urban %
- 6.82%India 31.14%
Literacy
- Literacy
- 61.02%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 72.96%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 48.82%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 24.14 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 977 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 966 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 16.61%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 6.02%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 43.22%India 8.63%
- Household
- 4.80India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 47.28%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 39.46%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 38.01%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 52.72%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.
Dumka in context
With 13,21,442 people at the 2011 Census, Dumka was the 371st most populous of India's 640 districts and the 11th most populous of Jharkhand's 24. That is 4.0% of everyone living in Jharkhand at the time.
Literacy stood at 61.02%, 12.0 points below the national 72.98% — 5.4 points below the Jharkhand average. That ranked it 552nd of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 24.1 points, 7.9 points above the national gap of 16.3.
The sex ratio was 977 women per 1,000 men (29 above the Jharkhand figure of 948). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 966, 48 above the national 918.
47.3% of the population were recorded as workers, 7.6 points above the Jharkhand rate. Female work participation was 39.5%, 10.4 points above the state figure.
Dumka contained 5 towns — 2 with a municipal body of some kind, and 3 classed as census towns, meaning they met the census's urban test without having one. The largest was Dumka (Nagar Parishad), with 47,584 people. That put 6.8% of the district in urban areas, 17.2 points below the Jharkhand share of 24.1%.
Towns in Dumka
Dumka has 5 census towns. The largest are listed below.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dumka (Nagar Parishad) | 47,584 | 89.92% | 876 / 1000 |
| Basukinath (NP) | 17,123 | 68.41% | 932 / 1000 |
| Purana Dumka (CT) | 10,034 | 83.17% | 878 / 1000 |
| Rasikpur (CT) | 8,320 | 77.61% | 954 / 1000 |
| Dudhani (CT) | 7,117 | 84.91% | 892 / 1000 |