Goalpara
Population
- Population
- 10.08 LIndia 121.09 Cr
- Urban %
- 13.69%India 31.14%
Literacy
- Literacy
- 67.37%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 71.46%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 63.13%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 8.33 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 964 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 963 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 17.03%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 4.47%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 22.97%India 8.63%
- Household
- 5.08India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 35.96%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 19.29%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 73.47%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 64.04%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.
Goalpara in context
With 10,08,183 people at the 2011 Census, Goalpara was the 443rd most populous of India's 640 districts and the 15th most populous of Assam's 27. That is 3.2% of everyone living in Assam at the time.
Literacy stood at 67.37%, 5.6 points below the national 72.98% — 4.8 points below the Assam average. That ranked it 440th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 8.3 points, 7.9 points below the national gap of 16.3.
The sex ratio was 964 women per 1,000 men (6 above the Assam figure of 958). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 963, 45 above the national 918.
Goalpara contained 11 towns — 2 with a municipal body of some kind, and 9 classed as census towns, meaning they met the census's urban test without having one. The largest was Goalpara (MB), with 53,430 people. That put 13.7% of the district in urban areas, level with the Assam share of 14.1%.
Towns in Goalpara
Goalpara has 11 census towns. The largest are listed below.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Goalpara (MB) | 53,430 | 83.77% | 981 / 1000 |
| Lakhipur (TC) | 15,633 | 76.43% | 943 / 1000 |
| Gobindapur (CT) | 11,863 | 55.90% | 955 / 1000 |
| Salpara Molandubi Pt.-I (CT) | 11,709 | 74.17% | 937 / 1000 |
| Bhalukdubi (CT) | 9,636 | 65.08% | 988 / 1000 |
| Nidanpur Pt-II (CT) | 7,954 | 58.02% | 961 / 1000 |
| Asudubi (CT) | 7,356 | 51.00% | 964 / 1000 |
| Thekashu Pt.-II (CT) | 5,625 | 86.41% | 1008 / 1000 |