Kohima

With 2,67,988 people at the 2011 Census, Kohima was the 576th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 2nd most populous of Nagaland's 11. That is 13.5% of everyone living in Nagaland at the time.

Literacy stood at 85.23%, 12.3 points above the national 72.98% — 5.7 points above the Nagaland average. That ranked it 68th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 7.2 points, 9.0 points below the national gap of 16.3.

The sex ratio was 928 women per 1,000 men (level with the Nagaland figure of 931). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 985, 67 above the national 918.

42.9% of the population were recorded as workers, 6.4 points below the Nagaland rate. Female work participation was 36.2%, 8.6 points below the state figure.

Kohima contained 3 towns — 2 with a municipal body of some kind, and 1 classed as census towns, meaning they met the census's urban test without having one. The largest was Kohima (MC), with 99,039 people. That put 45.2% of the district in urban areas, 16.3 points above the Nagaland share of 28.9%.