Karimganj

With 12,28,686 people at the 2011 Census, Karimganj was the 389th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 10th most populous of Assam's 27. That is 3.9% of everyone living in Assam at the time.

Literacy stood at 78.22%, 5.2 points above the national 72.98% — 6.0 points above the Assam average. That ranked it 191st of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 12.0 points, 4.2 points below the national gap of 16.3.

The sex ratio was 963 women per 1,000 men (5 above the Assam figure of 958). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 969, 51 above the national 918.

32.5% of the population were recorded as workers, 5.9 points below the Assam rate. Female work participation was 13.2%, 9.3 points below the state figure.

Karimganj contained 7 towns — 2 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 Karimganj (MB), with 56,854 people. That put 8.9% of the district in urban areas, 5.2 points below the Assam share of 14.1%.