Ramgarh

With 9,49,443 people at the 2011 Census, Ramgarh was the 460th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 17th most populous of Jharkhand's 24. That is 2.9% of everyone living in Jharkhand at the time.

Literacy stood at 73.17%, level with the national 72.98% — 6.8 points above the Jharkhand average. That ranked it 292nd of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 19.4 points, 3.1 points above the national gap of 16.3.

The sex ratio was 921 women per 1,000 men (27 below the Jharkhand figure of 948).

32.9% of the population were recorded as workers, 6.8 points below the Jharkhand rate. Female work participation was 17.1%, 12.0 points below the state figure.

Ramgarh contained 23 towns — 1 with a municipal body of some kind, and 22 classed as census towns, meaning they met the census's urban test without having one. The largest was Ramgarh Cantonment (CB), with 88,781 people. That put 44.1% of the district in urban areas, 20.1 points above the Jharkhand share of 24.1%.