Literacy plays a very crucial rule in the social and economic development in a country or region. A low level of literacy in a population retards the progress along the path of social and economic development and political power. The purview of the present study is to assess the pattern of urban literacy of Koch Bihar district. The data has been collected from Census of India, 2001 and other official records. On the basis of the selected indicators, it is concluded that the district has made tremendous progress in the improvement of literacy rate during 1991–2001. Class II and class III towns have high literacy rate, class IV towns have both moderate, high and very high literacy rate and class V town have only moderate literacy rate. The female literacy rate is lesser than the male literacy in different class towns of Koch Bihar district. It is to be noted that the ward to ward characteristics of literacy is more or less the same in different towns of Koch Bihar district.