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Sikkim districts

Sikkim

North District

43,709
people at the 2011 Census · 24,730 male, 18,979 female

Population

Population
43,709India 121.09 Cr
Urban %
10.62%India 31.14%

Literacy

Literacy
78.01%India 72.98%
Male Lit.
83.30%India 80.88%
Female Lit.
70.97%India 64.63%
Lit. Gap
12.33 ppIndia 16.25 pp

Society

Sex Ratio
767 / 1000India 943 / 1000
Child Sex Ratio
929 / 1000India 918 / 1000
Under 7
10.70%India 13.59%
SC %
2.25%India 16.63%
ST %
65.70%India 8.63%
Household
4.93India 4.85

Work

Workers
53.44%India 39.80%
Female Work
39.12%India 25.52%
Main Workers
73.70%India 75.24%
Non-Workers
46.56%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.

North District in context

With 43,709 people at the 2011 Census, North District was the 634th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 4th most populous of Sikkim's 4. That is 7.2% of everyone living in Sikkim at the time.

Literacy stood at 78.01%, 5.0 points above the national 72.98% — 3.4 points below the Sikkim average. That ranked it 198th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 12.3 points, 3.9 points below the national gap of 16.3.

The sex ratio was 767 women per 1,000 men (123 below the Sikkim figure of 890).

North District contained 1 town. The largest was Mangan (NP), with 4,644 people. That put 10.6% of the district in urban areas, 14.5 points below the Sikkim share of 25.1%.

Towns in North District

North District has one census town.

Largest towns in North District by 2011 Census population.
TownPopulationLiteracySex ratio
Mangan (NP)4,64483.81%891 / 1000