Jalpaiguri
Population
- Population
- 38.73 LIndia 121.09 Cr
- Urban %
- 27.38%India 31.14%
Literacy
- Literacy
- 73.25%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 79.95%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 66.23%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 13.72 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 953 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 955 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 11.92%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 37.65%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 18.89%India 8.63%
- Household
- 4.46India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 39.06%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 22.31%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 76.26%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 60.94%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.
Jalpaiguri in context
With 38,72,846 people at the 2011 Census, Jalpaiguri was the 66th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 12th most populous of West Bengal's 19. That is 4.2% of everyone living in West Bengal at the time.
Literacy stood at 73.25%, level with the national 72.98% — 3.0 points below the West Bengal average. That ranked it 291st of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 13.7 points, 2.5 points below the national gap of 16.3.
The sex ratio was 953 women per 1,000 men (level with the West Bengal figure of 950). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 955, 37 above the national 918.
Jalpaiguri contained 40 towns — 5 with a municipal body of some kind, and 35 classed as census towns, meaning they met the census's urban test without having one. The largest urban settlement was the part of Siliguri (M Corp.) falling inside the district, with 2,18,718 people. That put 27.4% of the district in urban areas, 4.5 points below the West Bengal share of 31.9%.
Towns in Jalpaiguri
Jalpaiguri has 40 census towns. The largest are listed below.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Siliguri (M Corp.) (Part) | 2.19 L | 85.21% | 950 / 1000 |
| Dabgram (P) (CT) | 1.19 L | 73.20% | 949 / 1000 |
| Jalpaiguri (M) | 1.07 L | 90.64% | 999 / 1000 |
| Alipurduar (M) | 65,232 | 91.03% | 969 / 1000 |
| Kharia (P) (CT) | 61,661 | 79.09% | 957 / 1000 |
| Binnaguri (CT) | 58,840 | 67.36% | 945 / 1000 |
| Dhupguri (M) | 44,719 | 86.34% | 948 / 1000 |
| Jaygaon (CT) | 42,254 | 69.59% | 950 / 1000 |