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Bihar districts

Bihar

Darbhanga

39,37,385
people at the 2011 Census · 20.60 L male, 18.77 L female

Population

Population
39.37 LIndia 121.09 Cr
Urban %
9.74%India 31.14%

Literacy

Literacy
56.56%India 72.98%
Male Lit.
66.83%India 80.88%
Female Lit.
45.24%India 64.63%
Lit. Gap
21.59 ppIndia 16.25 pp

Society

Sex Ratio
911 / 1000India 943 / 1000
Child Sex Ratio
931 / 1000India 918 / 1000
Under 7
18.43%India 13.59%
SC %
15.64%India 16.63%
ST %
0.07%India 8.63%
Household
4.90India 4.85

Work

Workers
31.08%India 39.80%
Female Work
14.69%India 25.52%
Main Workers
59.77%India 75.24%
Non-Workers
68.92%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.

Darbhanga in context

With 39,37,385 people at the 2011 Census, Darbhanga was the 61st most populous of India's 640 districts and the 8th most populous of Bihar's 38. That is 3.8% of everyone living in Bihar at the time.

Literacy stood at 56.56%, 16.4 points below the national 72.98% — 5.2 points below the Bihar average. That ranked it 595th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 21.6 points, 5.3 points above the national gap of 16.3.

The sex ratio was 911 women per 1,000 men (7 below the Bihar figure of 918).

Darbhanga contained 4 towns — 2 with a municipal body of some kind, and 2 classed as census towns, meaning they met the census's urban test without having one. The largest was Darbhanga (M Corp.), with 2,96,039 people. That put 9.7% of the district in urban areas, 1.5 points below the Bihar share of 11.3%.

Towns in Darbhanga

Darbhanga has 4 census towns. The largest are listed below.

Largest towns in Darbhanga by 2011 Census population.
TownPopulationLiteracySex ratio
Darbhanga (M Corp.)2.96 L79.40%902 / 1000
Benipur (Nagar Parishad)75,31760.31%912 / 1000
Padri (CT)7,56677.78%877 / 1000
Bahadurpur (CT)4,40673.02%887 / 1000