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Assam districts

Assam

Sivasagar

11,51,050
people at the 2011 Census · 5.89 L male, 5.62 L female

Population

Population
11.51 LIndia 121.09 Cr
Urban %
9.56%India 31.14%

Literacy

Literacy
80.41%India 72.98%
Male Lit.
85.84%India 80.88%
Female Lit.
74.71%India 64.63%
Lit. Gap
11.13 ppIndia 16.25 pp

Society

Sex Ratio
954 / 1000India 943 / 1000
Child Sex Ratio
960 / 1000India 918 / 1000
Under 7
12.11%India 13.59%
SC %
3.68%India 16.63%
ST %
4.26%India 8.63%
Household
4.63India 4.85

Work

Workers
42.20%India 39.80%
Female Work
28.59%India 25.52%
Main Workers
65.67%India 75.24%
Non-Workers
57.80%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.

Sivasagar in context

With 11,51,050 people at the 2011 Census, Sivasagar was the 406th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 11th most populous of Assam's 27. That is 3.7% of everyone living in Assam at the time.

Literacy stood at 80.41%, 7.4 points above the national 72.98% — 8.2 points above the Assam average. That ranked it 151st of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 11.1 points, 5.1 points below the national gap of 16.3.

The sex ratio was 954 women per 1,000 men (level with the Assam figure of 958). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 960, 42 above the national 918.

42.2% of the population were recorded as workers, 3.8 points above the Assam rate. Female work participation was 28.6%, 6.1 points above the state figure.

Sivasagar contained 7 towns — 6 with a municipal body of some kind, and 1 classed as census towns, meaning they met the census's urban test without having one. The largest was Sivasagar (MB), with 50,781 people. That put 9.6% of the district in urban areas, 4.5 points below the Assam share of 14.1%.

Towns in Sivasagar

Sivasagar has 7 census towns. The largest are listed below.

Largest towns in Sivasagar by 2011 Census population.
TownPopulationLiteracySex ratio
Sivasagar (MB)50,78191.82%886 / 1000
Sonari (MB)19,81090.29%908 / 1000
Nazira (MB)13,30492.58%932 / 1000
Simaluguri (TC)8,28691.09%867 / 1000
Amguri (MB)8,00291.71%874 / 1000
Moranhat (TC)5,67991.24%964 / 1000
Sepon (CT)4,23475.42%979 / 1000