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Bihar districts

Bihar

Arwal

7,00,843
people at the 2011 Census · 3.63 L male, 3.37 L female

Population

Population
7.01 LIndia 121.09 Cr
Urban %
7.40%India 31.14%

Literacy

Literacy
67.43%India 72.98%
Male Lit.
79.06%India 80.88%
Female Lit.
54.85%India 64.63%
Lit. Gap
24.21 ppIndia 16.25 pp

Society

Sex Ratio
928 / 1000India 943 / 1000
Child Sex Ratio
940 / 1000India 918 / 1000
Under 7
18.24%India 13.59%
SC %
20.16%India 16.63%
ST %
0.08%India 8.63%
Household
5.93India 4.85

Work

Workers
33.72%India 39.80%
Female Work
20.26%India 25.52%
Main Workers
68.24%India 75.24%
Non-Workers
66.28%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.

Arwal in context

With 7,00,843 people at the 2011 Census, Arwal was the 502nd most populous of India's 640 districts and the 36th most populous of Bihar's 38. That is 0.7% of everyone living in Bihar at the time.

Literacy stood at 67.43%, 5.5 points below the national 72.98% — 5.6 points above the Bihar average. That ranked it 436th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 24.2 points, 8.0 points above the national gap of 16.3.

The sex ratio was 928 women per 1,000 men (10 above the Bihar figure of 918). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 940, 22 above the national 918.

Arwal contained 1 town. The largest was Arwal (Nagar Parishad), with 51,849 people. That put 7.4% of the district in urban areas, 3.9 points below the Bihar share of 11.3%.

Towns in Arwal

Arwal has one census town.

Largest towns in Arwal by 2011 Census population.
TownPopulationLiteracySex ratio
Arwal (Nagar Parishad)51,84975.29%915 / 1000