Murshidabad
Population
- Population
- 71.04 LIndia 121.09 Cr
- Urban %
- 19.72%India 31.14%
Literacy
- Literacy
- 66.59%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 69.95%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 63.09%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 6.86 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 958 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 968 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 14.27%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 12.63%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 1.28%India 8.63%
- Household
- 4.52India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 36.46%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 17.38%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 78.08%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 63.54%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.
Murshidabad in context
With 71,03,807 people at the 2011 Census, Murshidabad was the 9th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 4th most populous of West Bengal's 19. That is 7.8% of everyone living in West Bengal at the time.
Literacy stood at 66.59%, 6.4 points below the national 72.98% — 9.7 points below the West Bengal average. That ranked it 460th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 6.9 points, 9.4 points below the national gap of 16.3.
The sex ratio was 958 women per 1,000 men (8 above the West Bengal figure of 950). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 968, 50 above the national 918.
Murshidabad contained 72 towns — 7 with a municipal body of some kind, and 65 classed as census towns, meaning they met the census's urban test without having one. The largest was Berhampore (M), with 1,95,223 people. That put 19.7% of the district in urban areas, 12.2 points below the West Bengal share of 31.9%.
Towns in Murshidabad
Murshidabad has 72 census towns. The largest are listed below.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berhampore (M) | 1.95 L | 90.06% | 947 / 1000 |
| Dhulian (M) | 95,706 | 63.03% | 1009 / 1000 |
| Jangipur (M) | 88,165 | 79.24% | 961 / 1000 |
| Kandi (M) | 55,632 | 82.05% | 956 / 1000 |
| Jiaganj-Azimganj (M) | 51,790 | 80.75% | 980 / 1000 |
| Murshidabad (M) | 44,019 | 81.94% | 985 / 1000 |
| Paschim Punropara (CT) | 40,683 | 55.68% | 1011 / 1000 |
| Aurangabad (CT) | 39,261 | 64.24% | 1016 / 1000 |