Purba Medinipur
Population
- Population
- 50.96 LIndia 121.09 Cr
- Urban %
- 11.63%India 31.14%
Literacy
- Literacy
- 87.02%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 92.32%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 81.37%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 10.95 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 938 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 946 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 11.53%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 14.63%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 0.55%India 8.63%
- Household
- 4.57India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 37.49%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 15.99%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 59.01%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 62.51%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.
Purba Medinipur in context
With 50,95,875 people at the 2011 Census, Purba Medinipur was the 21st most populous of India's 640 districts and the 8th most populous of West Bengal's 19. That is 5.6% of everyone living in West Bengal at the time.
Literacy stood at 87.02%, 14.0 points above the national 72.98% — 10.8 points above the West Bengal average. That ranked it 46th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 10.9 points, 5.3 points below the national gap of 16.3.
The sex ratio was 938 women per 1,000 men (12 below the West Bengal figure of 950). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 946, 28 above the national 918.
Purba Medinipur contained 25 towns — 5 with a municipal body of some kind, and 20 classed as census towns, meaning they met the census's urban test without having one. The largest was Haldia (M), with 2,00,827 people. That put 11.6% of the district in urban areas, 20.2 points below the West Bengal share of 31.9%.
Towns in Purba Medinipur
Purba Medinipur has 25 census towns. The largest are listed below.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Haldia (M) | 2.01 L | 88.54% | 916 / 1000 |
| Contai (M) | 92,226 | 93.69% | 881 / 1000 |
| Tamluk (M) | 65,306 | 90.18% | 963 / 1000 |
| Panskura (M) | 57,932 | 84.97% | 948 / 1000 |
| Egra (M) | 30,148 | 87.14% | 972 / 1000 |
| Kolaghat (CT) | 25,191 | 87.16% | 954 / 1000 |
| Amalhara (CT) | 14,261 | 85.86% | 916 / 1000 |
| Shantipur (CT) | 9,746 | 87.95% | 957 / 1000 |