East District
Population
- Population
- 2.84 LIndia 121.09 Cr
- Urban %
- 43.19%India 31.14%
Literacy
- Literacy
- 83.85%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 88.47%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 78.50%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 9.97 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 873 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 960 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 9.87%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 5.40%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 27.66%India 8.63%
- Household
- 4.61India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 49.25%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 35.81%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 79.51%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 50.75%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.
East District in context
With 2,83,583 people at the 2011 Census, East District was the 574th most populous of India's 640 districts and the most populous of Sikkim's 4. That is 46.4% of everyone living in Sikkim at the time.
Literacy stood at 83.85%, 10.9 points above the national 72.98% — 2.4 points above the Sikkim average. That ranked it 94th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 10.0 points, 6.3 points below the national gap of 16.3.
The sex ratio was 873 women per 1,000 men (17 below the Sikkim figure of 890). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 960, 42 above the national 918.
East District contained 4 towns — 3 with a municipal body of some kind, and 1 classed as census towns, meaning they met the census's urban test without having one. The largest was Gangtok (M Corp.), with 1,00,286 people. That put 43.2% of the district in urban areas, 18.0 points above the Sikkim share of 25.1%.
Towns in East District
East District has 4 census towns. The largest are listed below.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gangtok (M Corp.) | 1.00 L | 89.33% | 912 / 1000 |
| Rangpo (NP) | 10,450 | 87.27% | 881 / 1000 |
| Rhenak (CT) | 5,883 | 87.16% | 853 / 1000 |
| Singtam (NP) | 5,868 | 86.08% | 895 / 1000 |