West Tripura
Population
- Population
- 17.26 LIndia 121.09 Cr
- Urban %
- 39.27%India 31.14%
Literacy
- Literacy
- 88.69%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 92.50%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 84.75%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 7.75 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 962 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 952 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 11.06%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 19.59%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 25.03%India 8.63%
- Household
- 4.20India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 40.46%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 23.37%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 75.08%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 59.54%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 Tripura in context
With 17,25,739 people at the 2011 Census, West Tripura was the 282nd most populous of India's 640 districts and the most populous of Tripura's 4. That is 47.0% of everyone living in Tripura at the time.
Literacy stood at 88.69%, 15.7 points above the national 72.98% — 1.5 points above the Tripura average. That ranked it 32nd of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 7.8 points, 8.5 points below the national gap of 16.3.
The sex ratio was 962 women per 1,000 men (level with the Tripura figure of 960). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 952, 34 above the national 918.
West Tripura contained 21 towns — 6 with a municipal body of some kind, and 15 classed as census towns, meaning they met the census's urban test without having one. The largest was Agartala (M Cl), with 4,00,004 people. That put 39.3% of the district in urban areas, 13.1 points above the Tripura share of 26.2%.
Towns in West Tripura
West Tripura has 21 census towns. The largest are listed below.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Agartala (M Cl) | 4.00 L | 94.45% | 999 / 1000 |
| Bishalgarh (NP) | 21,085 | 94.38% | 982 / 1000 |
| Teliamura (NP) | 21,032 | 93.19% | 988 / 1000 |
| Charipara (CT) | 19,598 | 86.95% | 958 / 1000 |
| Khowai (NP) | 18,526 | 97.39% | 993 / 1000 |
| Dukli (CT) | 16,941 | 91.61% | 981 / 1000 |
| Madhuban (CT) | 16,579 | 91.82% | 955 / 1000 |
| Taranagar (CT) | 15,481 | 92.51% | 986 / 1000 |