Zunheboto

With 1,40,757 people at the 2011 Census, Zunheboto was the 605th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 8th most populous of Nagaland's 11. That is 7.1% of everyone living in Nagaland at the time.

Literacy stood at 85.26%, 12.3 points above the national 72.98% — 5.7 points above the Nagaland average. That ranked it 67th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 5.2 points, 11.0 points below the national gap of 16.3.

The sex ratio was 976 women per 1,000 men (45 above the Nagaland figure of 931). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 948, 30 above the national 918.

56.5% of the population were recorded as workers, 7.2 points above the Nagaland rate. Female work participation was 55.1%, 10.3 points above the state figure.

Zunheboto contained 2 towns — 1 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 Zunheboto (TC), with 22,633 people. That put 19.6% of the district in urban areas, 9.3 points below the Nagaland share of 28.9%.