North Tripura
Population
- Population
- 6.94 LIndia 121.09 Cr
- Urban %
- 17.33%India 31.14%
Literacy
- Literacy
- 87.50%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 91.13%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 83.75%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 7.38 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 967 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 969 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 14.30%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 16.57%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 25.86%India 8.63%
- Household
- 4.55India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 35.83%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 18.36%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 74.84%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 64.17%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 Tripura in context
With 6,93,947 people at the 2011 Census, North Tripura was the 503rd most populous of India's 640 districts and the 3rd most populous of Tripura's 4. That is 18.9% of everyone living in Tripura at the time.
Literacy stood at 87.50%, 14.5 points above the national 72.98% — level with the Tripura average. That ranked it 43rd of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 7.4 points, 8.9 points below the national gap of 16.3.
The sex ratio was 967 women per 1,000 men (7 above the Tripura figure of 960). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 969, 51 above the national 918.
35.8% of the population were recorded as workers, 4.2 points below the Tripura rate. Female work participation was 18.4%, 5.2 points below the state figure.
North Tripura contained 7 towns — 3 with a municipal body of some kind, and 4 classed as census towns, meaning they met the census's urban test without having one. The largest was Dharmanagar (NP), with 40,595 people. That put 17.3% of the district in urban areas, 8.8 points below the Tripura share of 26.2%.
Towns in North Tripura
North Tripura has 7 census towns. The largest are listed below.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dharmanagar (NP) | 40,595 | 95.12% | 1014 / 1000 |
| Kailasahar (NP) | 22,405 | 94.87% | 1009 / 1000 |
| Kanchanpur (CT) | 15,341 | 92.29% | 879 / 1000 |
| Panisagar (CT) | 14,758 | 96.11% | 905 / 1000 |
| Kumarghat (NP) | 13,054 | 93.61% | 1003 / 1000 |
| Dewanpasa (CT) | 8,761 | 90.97% | 943 / 1000 |
| Fatikroy (CT) | 5,371 | 91.39% | 980 / 1000 |