North Goa
Population
- Population
- 8.18 LIndia 121.09 Cr
- Urban %
- 60.28%India 31.14%
Literacy
- Literacy
- 89.57%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 93.40%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 85.60%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 7.80 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 963 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 939 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 9.50%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 2.15%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 6.92%India 8.63%
- Household
- 4.27India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 40.06%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 22.06%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 82.23%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 59.94%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 Goa in context
With 8,18,008 people at the 2011 Census, North Goa was the 480th most populous of India's 640 districts and the most populous of Goa's 2. That is 56.1% of everyone living in Goa at the time.
Literacy stood at 89.57%, 16.6 points above the national 72.98% — 0.9 points above the Goa average. That ranked it 24th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 7.8 points, 8.4 points below the national gap of 16.3.
The sex ratio was 963 women per 1,000 men (10 below the Goa figure of 973). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 939, 21 above the national 918.
North Goa contained 47 towns — 7 with a municipal body of some kind, and 40 classed as census towns, meaning they met the census's urban test without having one. The largest was Panaji (M Corp.), with 40,017 people. That put 60.3% of the district in urban areas, 1.9 points below the Goa share of 62.2%.
Towns in North Goa
North Goa has 47 census towns. The largest are listed below.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Panaji (M Corp.) | 40,017 | 94.02% | 981 / 1000 |
| Mapusa (M Cl) | 39,989 | 92.05% | 968 / 1000 |
| Ponda (M Cl) | 22,664 | 94.50% | 932 / 1000 |
| Bicholim (M Cl) | 16,986 | 91.86% | 937 / 1000 |
| Curti (CT) | 16,385 | 88.16% | 878 / 1000 |
| Penha-de-Franca (CT) | 15,342 | 92.73% | 963 / 1000 |
| Chimbel (CT) | 15,289 | 80.43% | 989 / 1000 |
| Calapor (CT) | 14,077 | 92.04% | 978 / 1000 |