Basti
Population
- Population
- 24.64 LIndia 121.09 Cr
- Urban %
- 5.60%India 31.14%
Literacy
- Literacy
- 67.22%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 77.88%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 56.23%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 21.65 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 963 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 929 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 15.86%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 20.85%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 0.15%India 8.63%
- Household
- 6.45India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 31.80%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 18.61%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 56.62%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 68.20%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.
Basti in context
With 24,64,464 people at the 2011 Census, Basti was the 178th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 41st most populous of Uttar Pradesh's 71. That is 1.2% of everyone living in Uttar Pradesh at the time.
Literacy stood at 67.22%, 5.8 points below the national 72.98% — level with the Uttar Pradesh average. That ranked it 444th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 21.6 points, 5.4 points above the national gap of 16.3.
The sex ratio was 963 women per 1,000 men (51 above the Uttar Pradesh figure of 912).
Basti contained 3 towns. The largest was Basti (NPP), with 1,14,657 people. That put 5.6% of the district in urban areas, 16.7 points below the Uttar Pradesh share of 22.3%.
Towns in Basti
Basti has 3 census towns. The largest are listed below.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Basti (NPP) | 1.15 L | 83.30% | 908 / 1000 |
| Bhabnan Bazar (NP) | 14,282 | 77.47% | 901 / 1000 |
| Harraiya (NP) | 9,158 | 79.84% | 901 / 1000 |