Koch Bihar
Population
- Population
- 28.19 LIndia 121.09 Cr
- Urban %
- 10.27%India 31.14%
Literacy
- Literacy
- 74.78%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 80.71%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 68.49%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 12.22 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 942 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 948 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 12.23%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 50.17%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 0.64%India 8.63%
- Household
- 4.23India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 40.01%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 20.67%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 78.58%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 59.99%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.
Koch Bihar in context
With 28,19,086 people at the 2011 Census, Koch Bihar was the 137th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 17th most populous of West Bengal's 19. That is 3.1% of everyone living in West Bengal at the time.
Literacy stood at 74.78%, 1.8 points above the national 72.98% — 1.5 points below the West Bengal average. That ranked it 264th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 12.2 points, 4.0 points below the national gap of 16.3.
The sex ratio was 942 women per 1,000 men (8 below the West Bengal figure of 950). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 948, 30 above the national 918.
Koch Bihar contained 18 towns — 6 with a municipal body of some kind, and 12 classed as census towns, meaning they met the census's urban test without having one. The largest was Koch Bihar (M), with 77,935 people. That put 10.3% of the district in urban areas, 21.6 points below the West Bengal share of 31.9%.
Towns in Koch Bihar
Koch Bihar has 18 census towns. The largest are listed below.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Koch Bihar (M) | 77,935 | 92.20% | 998 / 1000 |
| Dinhata (M) | 36,124 | 91.61% | 969 / 1000 |
| Mathabhanga (M) | 23,890 | 90.09% | 981 / 1000 |
| Khagrabari (CT) | 23,122 | 88.55% | 971 / 1000 |
| Guriahati (CT) | 21,064 | 85.98% | 978 / 1000 |
| Tufanganj (M) | 20,998 | 91.48% | 965 / 1000 |
| Haldibari (M) | 14,404 | 83.96% | 972 / 1000 |
| Takagach (CT) | 12,418 | 76.38% | 948 / 1000 |