Latehar

With 7,26,978 people at the 2011 Census, Latehar was the 499th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 20th most populous of Jharkhand's 24. That is 2.2% of everyone living in Jharkhand at the time.

Literacy stood at 59.51%, 13.5 points below the national 72.98% — 6.9 points below the Jharkhand average. That ranked it 570th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 21.3 points, 5.0 points above the national gap of 16.3.

The sex ratio was 967 women per 1,000 men (19 above the Jharkhand figure of 948). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 968, 50 above the national 918.

43.1% of the population were recorded as workers, 3.4 points above the Jharkhand rate. Female work participation was 37.3%, 8.2 points above the state figure.

Latehar contained 4 towns — 1 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 Latehar (NP), with 26,981 people. That put 7.1% of the district in urban areas, 16.9 points below the Jharkhand share of 24.1%.