 In 1961 the Reang had numbered 56,597 and in 1951 they had numbered 8,471.According to the 2001 census, there were 165,103 Reang in Tripura and 1,88,220 in 2011

The Reangs are primarily an agrarian tribe.In the past, they mostly practised the Huk or Jhum cultivation like most other Tripuri tribes.