West Kameng
Population
- Population
- 83,947India 121.09 Cr
- Urban %
- 18.98%India 31.14%
Literacy
- Literacy
- 67.07%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 73.45%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 59.05%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 14.40 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 819 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 973 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 13.87%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 0.00%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 55.25%India 8.63%
- Household
- 4.62India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 50.62%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 37.52%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 81.78%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 49.38%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 Kameng in context
With 83,947 people at the 2011 Census, West Kameng was the 621st most populous of India's 640 districts and the 8th most populous of Arunachal Pradesh's 16. That is 6.1% of everyone living in Arunachal Pradesh at the time.
Literacy stood at 67.07%, 5.9 points below the national 72.98% — 1.7 points above the Arunachal Pradesh average. That ranked it 447th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 14.4 points, 1.8 points below the national gap of 16.3.
The sex ratio was 819 women per 1,000 men (119 below the Arunachal Pradesh figure of 938). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 973, 55 above the national 918.
50.6% of the population were recorded as workers, 8.1 points above the Arunachal Pradesh rate.
West Kameng contained 3 towns — 2 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 Bomdila (NT), with 8,370 people. That put 19.0% of the district in urban areas, 4.0 points below the Arunachal Pradesh share of 22.9%.
Towns in West Kameng
West Kameng has 3 census towns. The largest are listed below.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bomdila (NT) | 8,370 | 76.46% | 914 / 1000 |
| Rupa (CT) | 3,812 | 79.85% | 863 / 1000 |
| Dirang (NT) | 3,750 | 80.51% | 945 / 1000 |