Araria
Population
- Population
- 28.12 LIndia 121.09 Cr
- Urban %
- 6.00%India 31.14%
Literacy
- Literacy
- 53.53%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 62.30%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 43.93%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 18.37 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 921 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 957 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 20.55%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 13.61%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 1.38%India 8.63%
- Household
- 4.95India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 38.05%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 26.81%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 65.09%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 61.95%India 60.20%
Population density, land area and decadal growth are not published in the Primary Census Abstract and so are unavailable at district level. See Methodology.
Araria in context
With 28,11,569 people at the 2011 Census, Araria was the 138th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 19th most populous of Bihar's 38. That is 2.7% of everyone living in Bihar at the time.
Literacy stood at 53.53%, 19.5 points below the national 72.98% — 8.3 points below the Bihar average. That ranked it 614th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 18.4 points, 2.1 points above the national gap of 16.3.
The sex ratio was 921 women per 1,000 men (level with the Bihar figure of 918). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 957, 39 above the national 918.
38.0% of the population were recorded as workers, 4.7 points above the Bihar rate. Female work participation was 26.8%, 7.7 points above the state figure.
Araria contained 3 towns. The largest was Araria (Nagar Parishad), with 79,021 people. That put 6.0% of the district in urban areas, 5.3 points below the Bihar share of 11.3%.
Towns in Araria
Araria has 3 census towns. The largest are listed below.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Araria (Nagar Parishad) | 79,021 | 72.40% | 875 / 1000 |
| Forbesganj (Nagar Parishad) | 50,475 | 78.64% | 903 / 1000 |
| Jogabani (NP) | 39,281 | 62.74% | 924 / 1000 |