Jorhat

With 10,92,256 people at the 2011 Census, Jorhat was the 418th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 12th most populous of Assam's 27. That is 3.5% of everyone living in Assam at the time.

Literacy stood at 82.15%, 9.2 points above the national 72.98% — 10.0 points above the Assam average. That ranked it 127th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 11.2 points, 5.1 points below the national gap of 16.3.

The sex ratio was 962 women per 1,000 men (level with the Assam figure of 958). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 964, 46 above the national 918.

45.6% of the population were recorded as workers, 7.3 points above the Assam rate. Female work participation was 33.2%, 10.8 points above the state figure.

Jorhat contained 11 towns — 4 with a municipal body of some kind, and 7 classed as census towns, meaning they met the census's urban test without having one. The largest was Jorhat (MB), with 71,782 people. That put 20.2% of the district in urban areas, 6.1 points above the Assam share of 14.1%.