West District
Population
- Population
- 1.36 LIndia 121.09 Cr
- Urban %
- 3.85%India 31.14%
Literacy
- Literacy
- 77.39%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 83.53%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 70.86%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 12.67 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 942 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 964 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 11.51%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 4.35%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 42.38%India 8.63%
- Household
- 4.87India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 51.56%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 44.68%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 72.82%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 48.44%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.
West District in context
With 1,36,435 people at the 2011 Census, West District was the 608th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 3rd most populous of Sikkim's 4. That is 22.3% of everyone living in Sikkim at the time.
Literacy stood at 77.39%, 4.4 points above the national 72.98% — 4.0 points below the Sikkim average. That ranked it 210th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 12.7 points, 3.6 points below the national gap of 16.3.
The sex ratio was 942 women per 1,000 men (52 above the Sikkim figure of 890). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 964, 46 above the national 918.
Female work participation was 44.7%, 5.1 points above the state figure.
West District contained 2 towns. The largest was Gyalshing (NP), with 4,013 people. That put 3.9% of the district in urban areas, 21.3 points below the Sikkim share of 25.1%.
Towns in West District
West District has 2 census towns. The largest are listed below.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gyalshing (NP) | 4,013 | 89.45% | 954 / 1000 |
| Nayabazar Notified Bazar Area | 1,235 | 88.99% | 883 / 1000 |