Demography
As of 2011 India provisional census Dhanbad had a population of 1,195,298. Males constitute 53% of the population and females 47%. It has a sex ratio of 908. Dhanbad has an average literacy rate of 75.71%, higher than the national average of 59.5%: male literacy is 85.78% and female literacy is 64.70%. In Dhanbad, 10.57% of the population is under 5 years of age. Majority of the population are people of Jharkhand, Bihar and West Bengal. Besides people of Eastern Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal followed by Marwari's and Punjabi have also settled in Dhanbad.
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