Deoghar
Population
- Population
- 14.92 LIndia 121.09 Cr
- Urban %
- 17.32%India 31.14%
Literacy
- Literacy
- 64.85%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 76.85%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 51.80%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 25.05 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 925 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 950 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 17.99%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 12.74%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 12.13%India 8.63%
- Household
- 5.64India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 36.96%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 23.40%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 53.88%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 63.04%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.
Deoghar in context
With 14,92,073 people at the 2011 Census, Deoghar was the 337th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 9th most populous of Jharkhand's 24. That is 4.5% of everyone living in Jharkhand at the time.
Literacy stood at 64.85%, 8.1 points below the national 72.98% — 1.6 points below the Jharkhand average. That ranked it 482nd of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 25.1 points, 8.8 points above the national gap of 16.3.
The sex ratio was 925 women per 1,000 men (23 below the Jharkhand figure of 948). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 950, 32 above the national 918.
Female work participation was 23.4%, 5.7 points below the state figure.
Deoghar contained 2 towns. The largest was Deoghar (M Corp.), with 2,03,123 people. That put 17.3% of the district in urban areas, 6.7 points below the Jharkhand share of 24.1%.
Towns in Deoghar
Deoghar has 2 census towns. The largest are listed below.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Deoghar (M Corp.) | 2.03 L | 85.68% | 881 / 1000 |
| Madhupur (Nagar Parishad) | 55,238 | 79.46% | 912 / 1000 |