Jajapur
Population
- Population
- 18.27 LIndia 121.09 Cr
- Urban %
- 7.39%India 31.14%
Literacy
- Literacy
- 80.13%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 86.84%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 73.29%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 13.55 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 973 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 926 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 11.87%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 23.72%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 8.29%India 8.63%
- Household
- 4.48India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 30.22%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 7.34%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 73.80%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 69.78%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.
Jajapur in context
With 18,27,192 people at the 2011 Census, Jajapur was the 261st most populous of India's 640 districts and the 7th most populous of Odisha's 30. That is 4.4% of everyone living in Odisha at the time.
Literacy stood at 80.13%, 7.1 points above the national 72.98% — 7.3 points above the Odisha average. That ranked it 155th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 13.6 points, 2.7 points below the national gap of 16.3.
The sex ratio was 973 women per 1,000 men (6 below the Odisha figure of 979).
30.2% of the population were recorded as workers, 11.6 points below the Odisha rate. Female work participation was 7.3%, 19.8 points below the state figure.
Jajapur contained 8 towns — 2 with a municipal body of some kind, and 6 classed as census towns, meaning they met the census's urban test without having one. The largest was Byasanagar (M), with 48,911 people. That put 7.4% of the district in urban areas, 9.3 points below the Odisha share of 16.7%.
Towns in Jajapur
Jajapur has 8 census towns. The largest are listed below.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Byasanagar (M) | 48,911 | 87.33% | 928 / 1000 |
| Jajapur (M) | 37,458 | 89.12% | 949 / 1000 |
| Brahmabarada (CT) | 10,721 | 86.74% | 973 / 1000 |
| Sayadpur (CT) | 8,798 | 86.77% | 998 / 1000 |
| Anjira (CT) | 6,561 | 76.21% | 976 / 1000 |
| Kalarangiata (CT) | 5,505 | 75.24% | 910 / 1000 |
| Kaliapani (CT) | 5,028 | 72.87% | 886 / 1000 |
| Kabatabandha (CT) | 4,080 | 87.01% | 964 / 1000 |