Nadia
Population
- Population
- 51.68 LIndia 121.09 Cr
- Urban %
- 27.84%India 31.14%
Literacy
- Literacy
- 74.97%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 78.75%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 70.98%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 7.77 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 947 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 960 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 10.16%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 29.93%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 2.72%India 8.63%
- Household
- 4.19India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 35.66%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 11.48%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 86.61%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 64.34%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.
Nadia in context
With 51,67,600 people at the 2011 Census, Nadia was the 18th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 7th most populous of West Bengal's 19. That is 5.7% of everyone living in West Bengal at the time.
Literacy stood at 74.97%, 2.0 points above the national 72.98% — 1.3 points below the West Bengal average. That ranked it 263rd of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 7.8 points, 8.5 points below the national gap of 16.3.
The sex ratio was 947 women per 1,000 men (level with the West Bengal figure of 950). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 960, 42 above the national 918.
Female work participation was 11.5%, 6.6 points below the state figure.
Nadia contained 65 towns — 10 with a municipal body of some kind, and 55 classed as census towns, meaning they met the census's urban test without having one. The largest was Krishnanagar (M), with 1,53,062 people. That put 27.8% of the district in urban areas, 4.0 points below the West Bengal share of 31.9%.
Towns in Nadia
Nadia has 65 census towns. The largest are listed below.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Krishnanagar (M) | 1.53 L | 90.36% | 984 / 1000 |
| Santipur (M) | 1.52 L | 80.90% | 971 / 1000 |
| Nabadwip (M) | 1.26 L | 87.33% | 919 / 1000 |
| Kalyani (M) | 1.01 L | 87.90% | 983 / 1000 |
| Chakdaha (M) | 95,203 | 90.80% | 981 / 1000 |
| Ranaghat (M) | 75,365 | 93.19% | 986 / 1000 |
| Gayespur (M) | 58,998 | 90.49% | 979 / 1000 |
| Phulia (CT) | 55,653 | 81.90% | 939 / 1000 |