Nagaon

With 28,23,768 people at the 2011 Census, Nagaon was the 135th most populous of India's 640 districts and the most populous of Assam's 27. That is 9.0% of everyone living in Assam at the time.

Literacy stood at 72.37%, 0.6 points below the national 72.98% — level with the Assam average. That ranked it 313th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 8.4 points, 7.8 points below the national gap of 16.3.

The sex ratio was 962 women per 1,000 men (level with the Assam figure of 958). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 964, 46 above the national 918.

34.7% of the population were recorded as workers, 3.6 points below the Assam rate. Female work participation was 15.4%, 7.1 points below the state figure.

Nagaon contained 17 towns — 8 with a municipal body of some kind, and 9 classed as census towns, meaning they met the census's urban test without having one. The largest was Nagaon (MB), with 1,17,722 people. That put 13.1% of the district in urban areas, 1.0 points below the Assam share of 14.1%.