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Nagaland districts

Nagaland

Tuensang

1,96,596
people at the 2011 Census · 1.02 L male, 94,663 female

Population

Population
1.97 LIndia 121.09 Cr
Urban %
18.71%India 31.14%

Literacy

Literacy
73.08%India 72.98%
Male Lit.
76.31%India 80.88%
Female Lit.
69.59%India 64.63%
Lit. Gap
6.72 ppIndia 16.25 pp

Society

Sex Ratio
929 / 1000India 943 / 1000
Child Sex Ratio
933 / 1000India 918 / 1000
Under 7
18.20%India 13.59%
SC %
0.00%India 16.63%
ST %
97.11%India 8.63%
Household
5.35India 4.85

Work

Workers
49.93%India 39.80%
Female Work
47.77%India 25.52%
Main Workers
74.90%India 75.24%
Non-Workers
50.07%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.

Tuensang in context

With 1,96,596 people at the 2011 Census, Tuensang was the 590th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 4th most populous of Nagaland's 11. That is 9.9% of everyone living in Nagaland at the time.

Literacy stood at 73.08%, level with the national 72.98% — 6.5 points below the Nagaland average. That ranked it 296th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 6.7 points, 9.5 points below the national gap of 16.3.

The sex ratio was 929 women per 1,000 men (level with the Nagaland figure of 931). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 933, 15 above the national 918.

Tuensang contained 1 town. The largest was Tuensang (TC), with 36,774 people. That put 18.7% of the district in urban areas, 10.1 points below the Nagaland share of 28.9%.

Towns in Tuensang

Tuensang has one census town.

Largest towns in Tuensang by 2011 Census population.
TownPopulationLiteracySex ratio
Tuensang (TC)36,77491.99%889 / 1000