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The population of Durgapur withing city is around 726,000, while the metropolitan area of Durgapur is home to nearly 1.2 million people. Durgapur is classified as a Y-category city for calculation of HRA (House Rent Allowance) for public servants (rate 12%) making it a "Tier-II" city .
By 2024, news sources began to identify Lamtai Khunou with the Durgapur village itself. [2] As per a news report in July 2024, there were 86 Meitei households in Lamtai Khunou. [ 22 ] Since the whole of Durgapur had only 93 households in the 2011 census, [ 1 ] it would imply that Lamtai Khunou had become the predominant settlement in Durgapur.
As per the 2011 census data the total number of literates in Durgapur subdivision, after bifurcation of Bardhaman district in 2017, was 867,905 (80.42% of the population over 6 years) out of which males numbered 487,056 (86.85% of the male population over 6 years) and females numbered 337,153 (65.15% of the female population over 6 years). [7]
By 1994 the city was thickly populated. Seeing this an act was passed to change the existing Durgapur Notified Area (DNA) to a Municipal Corporation and thus came into existence the present Durgapur Municipal Corporation governing a total area of 157 km 2 and a population of total of 5.81 lakhs (according to the 2011 census). [1] [2]
According to the 2011 Census of Bangladesh, Durgapur Upazila had 48,530 households and a population of 185,845. 32,588 (17.54%) were under 10 years of age.Durgapur had a literacy rate (age 7 and over) of 48.23%, compared to the national average of 51.8%, and a sex ratio of 987 females per 1000 males. 28,119 (15.13%) lived in urban areas. [7]
Rank Name District Type* Population 2011 Male Female Population below 5 yrs Literacy rate 1 Kolkata: Kolkata, North 24 Parganas South 24 Parganas, Nadia, Howrah, Hooghly, : UA (Tier 1)
According to the 2011 census, 79.22% of the population of the Durgapur subdivision was urban and 20.78% was rural. The sole municipal corporation in the Durgapur subdivision is located at Durgapur and the subdivision has 38 (+1 partly) census towns (partly presented in the map alongside; all places marked on the map are linked in the full-screen map).
As of 2001 India census, [2] Durgapur had a population of 17,369. Males constitute 50% of the population and females 50%. Durgapur has an average literacy rate of 74%, higher than the national average of 59.5%: male literacy is 81% and, female literacy is 66%. In Durgapur, 14% of the population is under 6 years of age.