Godda
Population
- Population
- 13.14 LIndia 121.09 Cr
- Urban %
- 4.90%India 31.14%
Literacy
- Literacy
- 56.40%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 67.84%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 44.14%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 23.70 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 938 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 960 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 18.41%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 8.80%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 21.26%India 8.63%
- Household
- 5.18India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 42.04%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 32.75%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 42.69%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 57.96%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.
Godda in context
With 13,13,551 people at the 2011 Census, Godda was the 372nd most populous of India's 640 districts and the 12th most populous of Jharkhand's 24. That is 4.0% of everyone living in Jharkhand at the time.
Literacy stood at 56.40%, 16.6 points below the national 72.98% — 10.0 points below the Jharkhand average. That ranked it 598th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 23.7 points, 7.4 points above the national gap of 16.3.
The sex ratio was 938 women per 1,000 men (10 below the Jharkhand figure of 948). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 960, 42 above the national 918.
Godda contained 3 towns — 1 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 Godda (NP), with 48,480 people. That put 4.9% of the district in urban areas, 19.1 points below the Jharkhand share of 24.1%.
Towns in Godda
Godda has 3 census towns. The largest are listed below.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Godda (NP) | 48,480 | 84.30% | 886 / 1000 |
| Mahagma (CT) | 10,969 | 79.56% | 901 / 1000 |
| Sarauni (CT) | 4,970 | 66.19% | 955 / 1000 |