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Mizoram districts

Mizoram

Saiha

56,574
people at the 2011 Census · 28,594 male, 27,980 female

Population

Population
56,574India 121.09 Cr
Urban %
44.38%India 31.14%

Literacy

Literacy
90.01%India 72.98%
Male Lit.
92.64%India 80.88%
Female Lit.
87.34%India 64.63%
Lit. Gap
5.30 ppIndia 16.25 pp

Society

Sex Ratio
979 / 1000India 943 / 1000
Child Sex Ratio
932 / 1000India 918 / 1000
Under 7
17.06%India 13.59%
SC %
0.15%India 16.63%
ST %
96.59%India 8.63%
Household
5.08India 4.85

Work

Workers
34.40%India 39.80%
Female Work
25.91%India 25.52%
Main Workers
75.50%India 75.24%
Non-Workers
65.60%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.

Saiha in context

With 56,574 people at the 2011 Census, Saiha was the 628th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 8th most populous of Mizoram's 8. That is 5.2% of everyone living in Mizoram at the time.

Literacy stood at 90.01%, 17.0 points above the national 72.98% — 1.3 points below the Mizoram average. That ranked it 22nd of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 5.3 points, 10.9 points below the national gap of 16.3.

The sex ratio was 979 women per 1,000 men (level with the Mizoram figure of 976).

34.4% of the population were recorded as workers, 10.0 points below the Mizoram rate. Female work participation was 25.9%, 10.2 points below the state figure.

Saiha contained 1 town. The largest was Saiha (NT), with 25,110 people. That put 44.4% of the district in urban areas, 7.7 points below the Mizoram share of 52.1%.

Towns in Saiha

Saiha has one census town.

Largest towns in Saiha by 2011 Census population.
TownPopulationLiteracySex ratio
Saiha (NT)25,11095.10%971 / 1000