Kodarma

With 7,16,259 people at the 2011 Census, Kodarma was the 500th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 21st most populous of Jharkhand's 24. That is 2.2% of everyone living in Jharkhand at the time.

Literacy stood at 66.84%, 6.1 points below the national 72.98% — level with the Jharkhand average. That ranked it 450th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 26.6 points, 10.3 points above the national gap of 16.3.

The sex ratio was 950 women per 1,000 men (level with the Jharkhand figure of 948). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 949, 31 above the national 918.

35.9% of the population were recorded as workers, 3.8 points below the Jharkhand rate. Female work participation was 23.9%, 5.2 points below the state figure.

Kodarma contained 5 towns — 2 with a municipal body of some kind, and 3 classed as census towns, meaning they met the census's urban test without having one. The largest was Jhumri Tilaiya (Nagar Parishad), with 87,867 people. That put 19.7% of the district in urban areas, 4.3 points below the Jharkhand share of 24.1%.