Hazaribagh
Population
- Population
- 17.34 LIndia 121.09 Cr
- Urban %
- 15.87%India 31.14%
Literacy
- Literacy
- 69.75%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 80.01%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 58.95%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 21.06 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 947 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 933 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 16.25%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 17.50%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 7.02%India 8.63%
- Household
- 5.69India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 37.74%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 27.40%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 50.00%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 62.26%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.
Hazaribagh in context
With 17,34,495 people at the 2011 Census, Hazaribagh was the 279th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 7th most populous of Jharkhand's 24. That is 5.3% of everyone living in Jharkhand at the time.
Literacy stood at 69.75%, 3.2 points below the national 72.98% — 3.3 points above the Jharkhand average. That ranked it 381st of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 21.1 points, 4.8 points above the national gap of 16.3.
The sex ratio was 947 women per 1,000 men (level with the Jharkhand figure of 948). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 933, 15 above the national 918.
Hazaribagh contained 17 towns — 1 with a municipal body of some kind, and 16 classed as census towns, meaning they met the census's urban test without having one. The largest was Hazaribag (Nagar Parishad), with 1,42,489 people. That put 15.9% of the district in urban areas, 8.2 points below the Jharkhand share of 24.1%.
Towns in Hazaribagh
Hazaribagh has 17 census towns. The largest are listed below.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hazaribag (Nagar Parishad) | 1.42 L | 89.36% | 922 / 1000 |
| Palawa (CT) | 14,848 | 76.65% | 928 / 1000 |
| Gidi (CT) | 13,356 | 81.26% | 911 / 1000 |
| Barhi (CT) | 11,867 | 80.50% | 943 / 1000 |
| Okani-II (CT) | 11,106 | 92.01% | 908 / 1000 |
| Marai Kalan (CT) | 10,447 | 81.47% | 934 / 1000 |
| Konra (CT) | 8,258 | 78.16% | 914 / 1000 |
| Religara Alias Pachhiari (CT) | 8,239 | 76.58% | 930 / 1000 |