Buxar
Population
- Population
- 17.06 LIndia 121.09 Cr
- Urban %
- 9.64%India 31.14%
Literacy
- Literacy
- 70.14%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 80.72%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 58.63%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 22.09 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 922 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 934 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 17.30%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 14.75%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 1.57%India 8.63%
- Household
- 6.52India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 31.55%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 16.64%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 61.03%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 68.45%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.
Buxar in context
With 17,06,352 people at the 2011 Census, Buxar was the 285th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 29th most populous of Bihar's 38. That is 1.6% of everyone living in Bihar at the time.
Literacy stood at 70.14%, 2.8 points below the national 72.98% — 8.3 points above the Bihar average. That ranked it 375th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 22.1 points, 5.8 points above the national gap of 16.3.
The sex ratio was 922 women per 1,000 men (level with the Bihar figure of 918). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 934, 16 above the national 918.
Buxar contained 3 towns — 2 with a municipal body of some kind, and 1 classed as census towns, meaning they met the census's urban test without having one. The largest was Buxar (Nagar Parishad), with 1,02,861 people. That put 9.6% of the district in urban areas, 1.6 points below the Bihar share of 11.3%.
Towns in Buxar
Buxar has 3 census towns. The largest are listed below.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Buxar (Nagar Parishad) | 1.03 L | 83.82% | 895 / 1000 |
| Dumraon (Nagar Parishad) | 53,618 | 71.59% | 881 / 1000 |
| Sarimpur (CT) | 8,020 | 73.30% | 948 / 1000 |