Kamrup Metropolitan
Population
- Population
- 12.54 LIndia 121.09 Cr
- Urban %
- 82.70%India 31.14%
Literacy
- Literacy
- 88.71%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 92.13%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 85.07%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 7.06 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 936 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 946 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 10.00%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 8.12%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 5.99%India 8.63%
- Household
- 4.28India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 39.15%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 19.02%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 84.16%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 60.85%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.
Kamrup Metropolitan in context
With 12,53,938 people at the 2011 Census, Kamrup Metropolitan was the 384th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 9th most populous of Assam's 27. That is 4.0% of everyone living in Assam at the time.
Literacy stood at 88.71%, 15.7 points above the national 72.98% — 16.5 points above the Assam average. That ranked it 31st of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 7.1 points, 9.2 points below the national gap of 16.3.
The sex ratio was 936 women per 1,000 men (22 below the Assam figure of 958). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 946, 28 above the national 918.
Kamrup Metropolitan contained 13 towns — 3 with a municipal body of some kind, and 10 classed as census towns, meaning they met the census's urban test without having one. The largest urban settlement was the part of Guwahati (M Corp.) falling inside the district, with 5,23,581 people. That put 82.7% of the district in urban areas, 68.6 points above the Assam share of 14.1%.
Towns in Kamrup Metropolitan
Kamrup Metropolitan has 13 census towns. The largest are listed below.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Guwahati (M Corp.) (Part) | 5.24 L | 91.78% | 932 / 1000 |
| Guwahati (M Corp.) (Part) | 4.34 L | 91.10% | 933 / 1000 |
| North Guwahati (TC) | 10,328 | 93.68% | 1030 / 1000 |
| Kahi Kuchi (CT) | 9,917 | 89.43% | 933 / 1000 |
| Amin Gaon (CT) | 8,855 | 80.33% | 941 / 1000 |
| Azara (CT) | 8,780 | 88.56% | 971 / 1000 |
| Dharapur (CT) | 8,095 | 89.40% | 966 / 1000 |
| Sonapur Gaon (CT) | 5,771 | 81.33% | 908 / 1000 |