Tawang
Population
- Population
- 49,977India 121.09 Cr
- Urban %
- 22.41%India 31.14%
Literacy
- Literacy
- 59.00%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 67.54%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 46.53%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 21.01 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 714 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 986 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 11.58%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 0.00%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 69.65%India 8.63%
- Household
- 4.97India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 57.15%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 43.25%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 85.54%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 42.85%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.
Tawang in context
With 49,977 people at the 2011 Census, Tawang was the 633rd most populous of India's 640 districts and the 13th most populous of Arunachal Pradesh's 16. That is 3.6% of everyone living in Arunachal Pradesh at the time.
Literacy stood at 59.00%, 14.0 points below the national 72.98% — 6.4 points below the Arunachal Pradesh average. That ranked it 577th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 21.0 points, 4.8 points above the national gap of 16.3.
The sex ratio was 714 women per 1,000 men (224 below the Arunachal Pradesh figure of 938). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 986, 68 above the national 918.
57.1% of the population were recorded as workers, 14.7 points above the Arunachal Pradesh rate. Female work participation was 43.3%, 7.8 points above the state figure.
Tawang contained 1 town. The largest was Tawang (NT), with 11,202 people. That put 22.4% of the district in urban areas, 0.5 points below the Arunachal Pradesh share of 22.9%.
Towns in Tawang
Tawang has one census town.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tawang (NT) | 11,202 | 90.88% | 340 / 1000 |