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Arunachal Pradesh districts

Arunachal Pradesh

Tirap

1,11,975
people at the 2011 Census · 57,604 male, 54,371 female

Population

Population
1.12 LIndia 121.09 Cr
Urban %
18.58%India 31.14%

Literacy

Literacy
52.19%India 72.98%
Male Lit.
61.87%India 80.88%
Female Lit.
41.89%India 64.63%
Lit. Gap
19.98 ppIndia 16.25 pp

Society

Sex Ratio
944 / 1000India 943 / 1000
Child Sex Ratio
961 / 1000India 918 / 1000
Under 7
17.90%India 13.59%
SC %
0.00%India 16.63%
ST %
87.85%India 8.63%
Household
5.43India 4.85

Work

Workers
44.80%India 39.80%
Female Work
41.61%India 25.52%
Main Workers
88.23%India 75.24%
Non-Workers
55.20%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.

Tirap in context

With 1,11,975 people at the 2011 Census, Tirap was the 613th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 5th most populous of Arunachal Pradesh's 16. That is 8.1% of everyone living in Arunachal Pradesh at the time.

Literacy stood at 52.19%, 20.8 points below the national 72.98% — 13.2 points below the Arunachal Pradesh average. That ranked it 620th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 20.0 points, 3.7 points above the national gap of 16.3.

The sex ratio was 944 women per 1,000 men (6 above the Arunachal Pradesh figure of 938). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 961, 43 above the national 918.

Female work participation was 41.6%, 6.2 points above the state figure.

Tirap contained 3 towns. The largest was Khonsa (NT), with 9,928 people. That put 18.6% of the district in urban areas, 4.4 points below the Arunachal Pradesh share of 22.9%.

Towns in Tirap

Tirap has 3 census towns. The largest are listed below.

Largest towns in Tirap by 2011 Census population.
TownPopulationLiteracySex ratio
Khonsa (NT)9,92885.00%721 / 1000
Deomali (NT)6,64881.86%959 / 1000
Longding4,23468.50%875 / 1000