Gopalganj

With 25,62,012 people at the 2011 Census, Gopalganj was the 163rd most populous of India's 640 districts and the 21st most populous of Bihar's 38. That is 2.5% of everyone living in Bihar at the time.

Literacy stood at 65.47%, 7.5 points below the national 72.98% — 3.7 points above the Bihar average. That ranked it 472nd of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 21.7 points, 5.4 points above the national gap of 16.3.

The sex ratio was 1021 women per 1,000 men (103 above the Bihar figure of 918) — one of the minority of districts where women outnumbered men. Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 954, 36 above the national 918.

28.4% of the population were recorded as workers, 4.9 points below the Bihar rate.

Gopalganj contained 5 towns — 4 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 Gopalganj (Nagar Parishad), with 67,339 people. That put 6.3% of the district in urban areas, 4.9 points below the Bihar share of 11.3%.