Golaghat

With 10,66,888 people at the 2011 Census, Golaghat was the 425th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 13th most populous of Assam's 27. That is 3.4% of everyone living in Assam at the time.

Literacy stood at 77.43%, 4.5 points above the national 72.98% — 5.2 points above the Assam average. That ranked it 208th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 12.5 points, 3.8 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.

45.0% of the population were recorded as workers, 6.6 points above the Assam rate. Female work participation was 32.6%, 10.2 points above the state figure.

Golaghat contained 7 towns — 5 with a municipal body of some kind, and 2 classed as census towns, meaning they met the census's urban test without having one. The largest was Golaghat (MB), with 41,989 people. That put 9.2% of the district in urban areas, 4.9 points below the Assam share of 14.1%.