Deoria
Population
- Population
- 31.01 LIndia 121.09 Cr
- Urban %
- 10.22%India 31.14%
Literacy
- Literacy
- 71.13%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 83.27%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 59.38%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 23.89 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 1017 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 925 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 14.98%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 15.11%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 3.54%India 8.63%
- Household
- 6.62India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 28.26%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 15.17%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 51.97%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 71.74%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.
Deoria in context
With 31,00,946 people at the 2011 Census, Deoria was the 113th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 32nd most populous of Uttar Pradesh's 71. That is 1.6% of everyone living in Uttar Pradesh at the time.
Literacy stood at 71.13%, 1.9 points below the national 72.98% — 3.4 points above the Uttar Pradesh average. That ranked it 346th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 23.9 points, 7.6 points above the national gap of 16.3.
The sex ratio was 1017 women per 1,000 men (105 above the Uttar Pradesh figure of 912) — one of the minority of districts where women outnumbered men.
28.3% of the population were recorded as workers, 4.7 points below the Uttar Pradesh rate.
Deoria contained 10 towns. The largest was Deoria (NPP), with 1,29,479 people. That put 10.2% of the district in urban areas, 12.0 points below the Uttar Pradesh share of 22.3%.
Towns in Deoria
Deoria has 10 census towns. The largest are listed below.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Deoria (NPP) | 1.29 L | 86.80% | 919 / 1000 |
| Gaura Barhaj (NPP) | 36,459 | 72.51% | 902 / 1000 |
| Rudrapur (NP) | 34,014 | 72.21% | 928 / 1000 |
| Lar (NP) | 28,307 | 73.84% | 976 / 1000 |
| Salempur (NP) | 21,124 | 84.99% | 933 / 1000 |
| Majhauliraj (NP) | 20,818 | 68.66% | 972 / 1000 |
| Bhatni Bazar (NP) | 15,352 | 80.61% | 902 / 1000 |
| Bhatpar Rani (NP) | 14,839 | 80.71% | 929 / 1000 |