Dumka district


Dumka district is one of the twenty-four districts of Jharkhand, and Dumka is the administrative headquarters of this district. This district covers an area of 3716.02 km. This district has a population of 1,321,442.

Economy

In 2006, the Indian government named Dumka one of the country's 250 most backward districts. It is one of the 21 districts in Jharkhand currently receiving funds from the Backward Regions Grant Fund Programme.

Demographics

According to the 2011 census Dumka district has a population of 1,321,442, roughly equal to the nation of Mauritius or the US state of New Hampshire. This gives it a ranking of 370th in India.
The district has a population density of . Its population growth rate over the decade 2001-2011 was 19.39%. Dumka has a sex ratio of 974 females for every 1000 males, and a literacy rate of 62.54%.
Schedule Caste constitutes 6% while Schedule Tribe were 43.2% of total population.
At the time of the 2011 Census of India, 39.71% of the population spoke Santali, 34.44% Khortha, 9.59% Bengali, 6.64% Hindi, 2.40% Malto and 1.86% Urdu as their first language.