Giridih
Population
- Population
- 24.45 LIndia 121.09 Cr
- Urban %
- 8.51%India 31.14%
Literacy
- Literacy
- 63.14%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 76.76%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 48.72%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 28.04 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 944 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 942 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 18.82%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 13.31%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 9.74%India 8.63%
- Household
- 6.17India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 42.38%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 34.73%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 39.85%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 57.62%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.
Giridih in context
With 24,45,474 people at the 2011 Census, Giridih was the 182nd most populous of India's 640 districts and the 3rd most populous of Jharkhand's 24. That is 7.4% of everyone living in Jharkhand at the time.
Literacy stood at 63.14%, 9.8 points below the national 72.98% — 3.3 points below the Jharkhand average. That ranked it 521st of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 28.0 points, 11.8 points above the national gap of 16.3.
The sex ratio was 944 women per 1,000 men (level with the Jharkhand figure of 948). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 942, 24 above the national 918.
Female work participation was 34.7%, 5.6 points above the state figure.
Giridih contained 12 towns — 1 with a municipal body of some kind, and 11 classed as census towns, meaning they met the census's urban test without having one. The largest was Giridih (Nagar Parishad), with 1,14,533 people. That put 8.5% of the district in urban areas, 15.5 points below the Jharkhand share of 24.1%.
Towns in Giridih
Giridih has 12 census towns. The largest are listed below.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Giridih (Nagar Parishad) | 1.15 L | 84.71% | 910 / 1000 |
| Barki Saraiya (CT) | 18,933 | 77.52% | 902 / 1000 |
| Isri (CT) | 9,749 | 82.51% | 916 / 1000 |
| Paratdih (CT) | 8,854 | 59.13% | 958 / 1000 |
| Dhanwar (CT) | 8,777 | 82.88% | 937 / 1000 |
| Dandidih (CT) | 7,769 | 71.18% | 938 / 1000 |
| Mahesh Mundi (CT) | 7,389 | 70.88% | 922 / 1000 |
| Sirsia (CT) | 7,181 | 72.28% | 927 / 1000 |