Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes make up 14.51% and 12.40% of the population respectively.

Languages

At the time of the 2011 Census of India, 46.23% of the population in the district spoke Khortha, 13.61% Hindi, 10.67% Bengali, 8.67% Santali, 5.71% Bhojpuri, 4.09% Urdu,