North Twenty Four Parganas
Population
- Population
- 1.00 CrIndia 121.09 Cr
- Urban %
- 57.27%India 31.14%
Literacy
- Literacy
- 84.06%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 87.61%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 80.34%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 7.27 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 955 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 956 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 9.57%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 21.67%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 2.64%India 8.63%
- Household
- 4.26India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 35.68%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 12.81%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 85.55%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 64.32%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 Twenty Four Parganas in context
With 1,00,09,781 people at the 2011 Census, North Twenty Four Parganas was the 2nd most populous of India's 640 districts and the most populous of West Bengal's 19. That is 11.0% of everyone living in West Bengal at the time.
Literacy stood at 84.06%, 11.1 points above the national 72.98% — 7.8 points above the West Bengal average. That ranked it 87th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 7.3 points, 9.0 points below the national gap of 16.3.
The sex ratio was 955 women per 1,000 men (5 above the West Bengal figure of 950). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 956, 38 above the national 918.
Female work participation was 12.8%, 5.3 points below the state figure.
North Twenty Four Parganas contained 107 towns — 29 with a municipal body of some kind, and 78 classed as census towns, meaning they met the census's urban test without having one. The largest was South DumDum (M), with 4,03,316 people. That put 57.3% of the district in urban areas, 25.4 points above the West Bengal share of 31.9%.
Towns in North Twenty Four Parganas
North Twenty Four Parganas has 107 census towns. The largest are listed below.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| South DumDum (M) | 4.03 L | 92.09% | 995 / 1000 |
| Rajarhat Gopalpur (M) | 4.03 L | 89.69% | 976 / 1000 |
| Bhatpara (M) | 3.84 L | 84.74% | 887 / 1000 |
| Panihati (M) | 3.77 L | 91.92% | 992 / 1000 |
| Kamarhati (M) | 3.30 L | 87.67% | 939 / 1000 |
| Barasat (M) | 2.78 L | 89.62% | 977 / 1000 |
| North DumDum (M) | 2.49 L | 91.00% | 973 / 1000 |
| Baranagar (M) | 2.45 L | 91.41% | 943 / 1000 |