Hailakandi
Population
- Population
- 6.59 LIndia 121.09 Cr
- Urban %
- 7.30%India 31.14%
Literacy
- Literacy
- 74.33%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 80.74%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 67.60%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 13.14 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 951 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 954 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 16.88%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 10.72%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 0.10%India 8.63%
- Household
- 4.60India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 32.50%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 13.52%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 77.11%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 67.50%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.
Hailakandi in context
With 6,59,296 people at the 2011 Census, Hailakandi was the 509th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 25th most populous of Assam's 27. That is 2.1% of everyone living in Assam at the time.
Literacy stood at 74.33%, 1.3 points above the national 72.98% — 2.1 points above the Assam average. That ranked it 275th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 13.1 points, 3.1 points below the national gap of 16.3.
The sex ratio was 951 women per 1,000 men (7 below the Assam figure of 958). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 954, 36 above the national 918.
32.5% of the population were recorded as workers, 5.9 points below the Assam rate. Female work participation was 13.5%, 8.9 points below the state figure.
Hailakandi contained 3 towns — 2 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 Hailakandi (MB), with 33,637 people. That put 7.3% of the district in urban areas, 6.8 points below the Assam share of 14.1%.
Towns in Hailakandi
Hailakandi has 3 census towns. The largest are listed below.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hailakandi (MB) | 33,637 | 92.08% | 997 / 1000 |
| Lala (TC) | 11,771 | 94.30% | 1020 / 1000 |
| H.P.C. Township (CT) | 2,732 | 97.35% | 855 / 1000 |