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The state of West Bengal is one of the important states in respect of its population structure in India. Being a populated state with four positions among the other 28 states in India. As a result, through comparative quantitative analysis, an attempt has been made in this paper to detect the levels of urbanization for understanding the demographic and socioeconomic status from a spatial perspective. The datasets have been collected from Indian census abstracts for 2001 and 2011. There is no gap in the temporal series of demographic datasets. In this paper, we used the 'Z' score statistic to examine the tendency of % of urban population data. After all, the standardization of every individual value (considered as x) is concentrated through this method. The results of this calculation exhibit a range of +3.09 to -0.89. According to this calculation, the main 3 categories of high (above +0.50), medium (-0.50 to +0.50), and low (below -0.50) have been taken for the mention of the status of urbanization in West Bengal in 2001 and 2011, respectively. In 2001, four districts had a high level of urbanization; since then, in 2011, this pattern has changed minutely and is now concentrated in three districts. In 2011, 7 districts lying in the medium range in respect of the level of urbanization before it was 5 districts in 2001. Hence the low category level of urbanization concentration in nine districts lying between these ranges in both cases. The analysis further reveals that there is a positive correlation between the availability of modern amenities and the level of urbanization in 2001 and 2011, respectively.