[3] According to the 2011 Census of Bangladesh, Niamatpur Upazila had 61,811 households and a population of 248,351.

Niamatpur had a literacy rate (age 7 and over) of 44.71%, compared to the national average of 51.8%, and a sex ratio of 1,026 females per 1,000 males.

[6] Twenty years earlier, the number of female inhabitants was lower, and males constituted a slender majority.

[7] Niamatpur Thana was formed in 1918 and it was turned into an upazila in 1983.

[3] Niamatpur Upazila is divided into eight union parishads: Bahadurpur, Bhabicha, Chandan Nagar, Hajinagar, Niamatpur, Parail, Rasulpur, and Sreemantapur.