Bhojpur
Population
- Population
- 27.28 LIndia 121.09 Cr
- Urban %
- 14.29%India 31.14%
Literacy
- Literacy
- 70.47%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 81.74%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 58.03%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 23.71 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 907 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 918 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 16.83%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 15.59%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 0.51%India 8.63%
- Household
- 6.56India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 30.15%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 14.04%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 62.25%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 69.85%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.
Bhojpur in context
With 27,28,407 people at the 2011 Census, Bhojpur was the 145th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 20th most populous of Bihar's 38. That is 2.6% of everyone living in Bihar at the time.
Literacy stood at 70.47%, 2.5 points below the national 72.98% — 8.7 points above the Bihar average. That ranked it 368th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 23.7 points, 7.5 points above the national gap of 16.3.
The sex ratio was 907 women per 1,000 men (11 below the Bihar figure of 918).
30.1% of the population were recorded as workers, 3.2 points below the Bihar rate. Female work participation was 14.0%, 5.0 points below the state figure.
Bhojpur contained 6 towns. The largest was Arrah (M Corp.), with 2,61,430 people. That put 14.3% of the district in urban areas, 3.0 points above the Bihar share of 11.3%.
Towns in Bhojpur
Bhojpur has 6 census towns. The largest are listed below.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arrah (M Corp.) | 2.61 L | 81.15% | 883 / 1000 |
| Piro (NP) | 33,785 | 71.53% | 898 / 1000 |
| Jagdishpur (NP) | 32,447 | 68.51% | 905 / 1000 |
| Behea (NP) | 26,707 | 78.21% | 920 / 1000 |
| Shahpur (NP) | 17,767 | 70.34% | 935 / 1000 |
| Koilwar (NP) | 17,725 | 70.15% | 889 / 1000 |