Sahibganj

With 11,50,567 people at the 2011 Census, Sahibganj was the 407th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 13th most populous of Jharkhand's 24. That is 3.5% of everyone living in Jharkhand at the time.

Literacy stood at 52.04%, 20.9 points below the national 72.98% — 14.4 points below the Jharkhand average. That ranked it 622nd of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 17.0 points, 0.8 points above the national gap of 16.3.

The sex ratio was 952 women per 1,000 men (level with the Jharkhand figure of 948). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 960, 42 above the national 918.

Female work participation was 34.7%, 5.6 points above the state figure.

Sahibganj contained 8 towns — 2 with a municipal body of some kind, and 6 classed as census towns, meaning they met the census's urban test without having one. The largest was Sahibganj (Nagar Parishad), with 88,214 people. That put 13.9% of the district in urban areas, 10.2 points below the Jharkhand share of 24.1%.