Kokrajhar
Population
- Population
- 8.87 LIndia 121.09 Cr
- Urban %
- 6.19%India 31.14%
Literacy
- Literacy
- 65.22%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 71.89%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 58.27%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 13.62 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 959 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 954 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 15.43%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 3.33%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 31.41%India 8.63%
- Household
- 4.90India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 38.45%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 24.14%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 74.20%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 61.55%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.
Kokrajhar in context
With 8,87,142 people at the 2011 Census, Kokrajhar was the 468th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 20th most populous of Assam's 27. That is 2.8% of everyone living in Assam at the time.
Literacy stood at 65.22%, 7.8 points below the national 72.98% — 7.0 points below the Assam average. That ranked it 478th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 13.6 points, 2.6 points below the national gap of 16.3.
The sex ratio was 959 women per 1,000 men (level with the Assam figure of 958). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 954, 36 above the national 918.
Kokrajhar contained 4 towns — 2 with a municipal body of some kind, and 2 classed as census towns, meaning they met the census's urban test without having one. The largest was Kokrajhar (MB), with 34,136 people. That put 6.2% of the district in urban areas, 7.9 points below the Assam share of 14.1%.
Towns in Kokrajhar
Kokrajhar has 4 census towns. The largest are listed below.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kokrajhar (MB) | 34,136 | 89.96% | 943 / 1000 |
| Gossaigaon (TC) | 9,068 | 90.21% | 896 / 1000 |
| Padmabil (CT) | 6,874 | 81.63% | 964 / 1000 |
| Salakati (CT) | 4,863 | 76.93% | 863 / 1000 |