Garhwa
Population
- Population
- 13.23 LIndia 121.09 Cr
- Urban %
- 5.27%India 31.14%
Literacy
- Literacy
- 60.33%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 72.19%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 47.58%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 24.61 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 935 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 960 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 18.12%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 24.19%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 15.56%India 8.63%
- Household
- 5.19India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 43.20%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 36.92%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 30.65%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 56.80%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.
Garhwa in context
With 13,22,784 people at the 2011 Census, Garhwa was the 369th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 10th most populous of Jharkhand's 24. That is 4.0% of everyone living in Jharkhand at the time.
Literacy stood at 60.33%, 12.7 points below the national 72.98% — 6.1 points below the Jharkhand average. That ranked it 559th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 24.6 points, 8.4 points above the national gap of 16.3.
The sex ratio was 935 women per 1,000 men (13 below the Jharkhand figure of 948). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 960, 42 above the national 918.
43.2% of the population were recorded as workers, 3.5 points above the Jharkhand rate. Female work participation was 36.9%, 7.8 points above the state figure.
Garhwa 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 Garhwa (NP), with 46,059 people. That put 5.3% of the district in urban areas, 18.8 points below the Jharkhand share of 24.1%.
Towns in Garhwa
Garhwa has 3 census towns. The largest are listed below.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Garhwa (NP) | 46,059 | 80.57% | 892 / 1000 |
| Majhion (NP) | 18,349 | 70.92% | 935 / 1000 |
| Sinduria (CT) | 5,262 | 75.54% | 879 / 1000 |