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Town · Census 2011 · code 801571

Rangapara population.
Households, literacy and work.

A detailed town profile in Assam, using the original Primary Census Abstract. Every figure on this page belongs to the source’s 2011 population and geography.

Historical geographic unit. Census 2011 town boundary and classification. The primary total is the single published town row. This is not a present-day population or an urban-agglomeration total.
Population18,393people
Households4,243PCA households
Literacy rate87.83%% of people aged 7+
Work participation34.94%% of all residents

Population, children, literacy and work by sex

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Indicator · Census 2011TotalMalesFemales
Populationpeople18,3939,4858,908
Children aged 0–6people aged 0–61,855950905
Literate populationliterate people aged 7+14,5257,8556,670
Literacy rate% of the corresponding population aged 7+87.83%92.03%83.34%
Scheduled Castes populationpeople1,798921877
Scheduled Tribes populationpeople871432439
Total workersCensus workers6,4275,624803
Work participation rate% of the corresponding total population34.94%59.29%9.01%
Main workersworked at least 6 months5,7705,191579
Marginal workersworked less than 6 months657433224
Non-workerspeople11,9663,8618,105

Calculated percentages retain the denominator named in each row. Counts are reported people or households, and are not estimates for a later year.

Census of India · original Primary Census Abstract
Data! rows 9736; original PCA field codes are documented in field-definitions.json.
Source access notes and archived workbooks

What stands out in this profile?

  • The source records 4,243 households and 18,393 residents. These household and person counts are separate measures.
  • Children aged 0–6 accounted for 10.09% of residents. This historical age group helps describe the age structure in 2011; it does not measure today’s children.
  • Male literacy was 92.03% and female literacy was 83.34%, each calculated among the corresponding population aged 7 and above.
  • Of 6,427 Census workers, 89.78% were main workers. Census work includes more than salaried employment.

What kinds of work were recorded?

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Economic activityMain workersMarginal workers
Cultivators158
Agricultural labourers2615
Household industry workers8928
Other workers5,640606

Cultivators, agricultural labourers, household industry workers and other workers are separate Census activity categories. A worker count is not a count of employees on a company payroll.

Using the profile in research

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Definitions, calculation methods and source access

Literacy uses people aged 7 and above; work participation uses all residents. Main workers worked at least six months. Households are the PCA household count, not houses. Rates with zero denominators are unavailable. Names and boundaries belong to Census 2011.

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Source components of this town

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Published componentDistrict codeSubdistrict codePeople
Rangapara (TC)3060204218,393

The main profile combines the selected, non-overlapping components. A municipal-core row and its wider row including outgrowths are not added together.