Editing Digboi (section)

==Demographics==
{{As of|2011}} India [[census]],<ref name=GRIndia>{{cite web|url=http://www.censusindia.net/results/town.php?stad=A&state5=999|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040616075334/http://www.censusindia.net/results/town.php?stad=A&state5=999|archive-date=2004-06-16|title= Census of India 2001: Data from the 2001 Census, including cities, villages and towns (Provisional)|access-date=2008-11-01|publisher= Registrar General and Census Commissioner of India}}</ref> Digboi has population of 21,736 individuals, of which 10,964 are males while 10,772 are females. Population of Children with age of 0-6 is 1745 which is 8.03% of total population of Digboi.  Committee, Female Sex Ratio is of 982 against state average of 958. Moreover, Child Sex Ratio in Digboi is around 981 compared to Assam state average of 962. Literacy rate of Digboi city at 92.08% is higher than state average of 72.19%. In Digboi, Male literacy is around 95.09% while female literacy rate is 89.02%.

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|caption = Languages spoken in Digboi city (2011)<ref name="auto">{{cite web|url=https://censusindia.gov.in/2011census/C-16T/DDW-C16-TOWN-STMT-MDDS-1800.XLSX|format=XLDX|title=C-16 POPULATION BY MOTHER TONGUE|publisher=Registrar General and Census Commissioner of India|access-date=25 October 2021}}</ref>
|label1 = [[Bengali language|Bengali]]
|value1 = 55.82
|color1 = orange
|label2 = [[Assamese language|Assamese]]
|value2 = 17.68
|color2 = brown
|label3 = [[Hindi language|Hindi]]
|value3 = 15.82
|color3 = yellow
|label4 = [[Nepali language|Nepali]]
|value4 = 6.35
|color4 = pink
|label5 = Others
|value5 = 4.33
|color5 = blue
}}
Digboi city has a population of 21,736 individuals as per the 2011 census. Bengali is spoken by ~12,135 individuals, Assamese is spoken by ~3,845 individuals, Hindi is spoken by ~3,440 individuals, and Nepali is spoken by ~1,381 individuals; the rest ~941 speak other languages.<ref name="auto"/>

Digboi Oil Town was considered as a separate [[census town]] in [[2011 census of India|2011 India]] [[census]].<ref name=GRIndia/> The population is largely heterogeneous. Assamese, Bengali, Nepali, Bihari, Marwari communities form the majority. People from various tribes such as the tea-tribes (brought in by the colonial planters as [[Indentured servitude|indentured labourers]] from the [[Chota Nagpur Plateau|Chhota Nagpur]] plateau region), [[Boro people|Bodos]], [[Mising people|Mishings]] etc. have also made it their home.