Kendujhar
Population
- Population
- 18.02 LIndia 121.09 Cr
- Urban %
- 14.05%India 31.14%
Literacy
- Literacy
- 68.24%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 78.12%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 58.28%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 19.84 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 988 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 967 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 14.40%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 11.62%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 45.45%India 8.63%
- Household
- 4.45India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 42.54%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 29.98%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 57.73%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 57.46%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.
Kendujhar in context
With 18,01,733 people at the 2011 Census, Kendujhar was the 265th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 8th most populous of Odisha's 30. That is 4.3% of everyone living in Odisha at the time.
Literacy stood at 68.24%, 4.7 points below the national 72.98% — 4.6 points below the Odisha average. That ranked it 419th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 19.8 points, 3.6 points above the national gap of 16.3.
The sex ratio was 988 women per 1,000 men (9 above the Odisha figure of 979). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 967, 49 above the national 918.
Kendujhar contained 9 towns — 4 with a municipal body of some kind, and 5 classed as census towns, meaning they met the census's urban test without having one. The largest was Barbil (M), with 66,540 people. That put 14.1% of the district in urban areas, 2.6 points below the Odisha share of 16.7%.
Towns in Kendujhar
Kendujhar has 9 census towns. The largest are listed below.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Barbil (M) | 66,540 | 72.18% | 905 / 1000 |
| Kendujhar (M) | 60,590 | 87.23% | 925 / 1000 |
| Joda (M ) | 46,631 | 72.16% | 947 / 1000 |
| Anandpur (M) | 39,585 | 84.55% | 935 / 1000 |
| Balagoda (Bolani) (CT) | 11,708 | 71.92% | 903 / 1000 |
| Champua (CT) | 10,394 | 87.00% | 875 / 1000 |
| Jajanga (CT) | 7,482 | 60.77% | 881 / 1000 |
| Jhumpura (CT) | 6,064 | 82.73% | 923 / 1000 |