Imphal West

With 5,17,992 people at the 2011 Census, Imphal West was the 545th most populous of India's 640 districts and the most populous of Manipur's 9. That is 18.1% of everyone living in Manipur at the time.

Literacy stood at 86.08%, 13.1 points above the national 72.98% — 9.1 points above the Manipur average. That ranked it 58th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 12.1 points, 4.2 points below the national gap of 16.3.

The sex ratio was 1031 women per 1,000 men (46 above the Manipur figure of 985) — one of the minority of districts where women outnumbered men. Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 949, 31 above the national 918.

41.2% of the population were recorded as workers, 4.5 points below the Manipur rate. Female work participation was 32.3%, 7.6 points below the state figure.

Imphal West contained 14 towns — 9 with a municipal body of some kind, and 5 classed as census towns, meaning they met the census's urban test without having one. The largest was Imphal (MCI) (Major part), with 1,86,538 people. That put 62.3% of the district in urban areas, 33.1 points above the Manipur share of 29.2%.