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Nagaland districts

Nagaland

Phek

1,63,418
people at the 2011 Census · 83,743 male, 79,675 female

Population

Population
1.63 LIndia 121.09 Cr
Urban %
15.04%India 31.14%

Literacy

Literacy
78.05%India 72.98%
Male Lit.
83.66%India 80.88%
Female Lit.
72.21%India 64.63%
Lit. Gap
11.45 ppIndia 16.25 pp

Society

Sex Ratio
951 / 1000India 943 / 1000
Child Sex Ratio
913 / 1000India 918 / 1000
Under 7
16.98%India 13.59%
SC %
0.00%India 16.63%
ST %
96.16%India 8.63%
Household
4.46India 4.85

Work

Workers
49.12%India 39.80%
Female Work
48.60%India 25.52%
Main Workers
79.28%India 75.24%
Non-Workers
50.88%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.

Phek in context

With 1,63,418 people at the 2011 Census, Phek was the 596th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 7th most populous of Nagaland's 11. That is 8.3% of everyone living in Nagaland at the time.

Literacy stood at 78.05%, 5.1 points above the national 72.98% — 1.5 points below the Nagaland average. That ranked it 196th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 11.4 points, 4.8 points below the national gap of 16.3.

The sex ratio was 951 women per 1,000 men (20 above the Nagaland figure of 931).

Phek contained 2 towns. The largest was Phek (TC), with 14,204 people. That put 15.0% of the district in urban areas, 13.8 points below the Nagaland share of 28.9%.

Towns in Phek

Phek has 2 census towns. The largest are listed below.

Largest towns in Phek by 2011 Census population.
TownPopulationLiteracySex ratio
Phek (TC)14,20489.08%781 / 1000
Pfutsero (TC)10,37187.24%980 / 1000