Khunti
Population
- Population
- 5.32 LIndia 121.09 Cr
- Urban %
- 8.46%India 31.14%
Literacy
- Literacy
- 63.86%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 74.08%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 53.69%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 20.39 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 997 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 964 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 16.22%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 4.52%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 73.25%India 8.63%
- Household
- 5.13India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 48.88%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 44.76%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 58.88%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 51.12%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.
Khunti in context
With 5,31,885 people at the 2011 Census, Khunti was the 541st most populous of India's 640 districts and the 23rd most populous of Jharkhand's 24. That is 1.6% of everyone living in Jharkhand at the time.
Literacy stood at 63.86%, 9.1 points below the national 72.98% — 2.5 points below the Jharkhand average. That ranked it 504th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 20.4 points, 4.1 points above the national gap of 16.3.
The sex ratio was 997 women per 1,000 men (49 above the Jharkhand figure of 948). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 964, 46 above the national 918.
48.9% of the population were recorded as workers, 9.2 points above the Jharkhand rate. Female work participation was 44.8%, 15.7 points above the state figure.
Khunti contained 2 towns — 1 with a municipal body of some kind, and 1 classed as census towns, meaning they met the census's urban test without having one. The largest was Khunti (NP), with 36,390 people. That put 8.5% of the district in urban areas, 15.6 points below the Jharkhand share of 24.1%.
Towns in Khunti
Khunti has 2 census towns. The largest are listed below.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Khunti (NP) | 36,390 | 83.12% | 960 / 1000 |
| Torpa (CT) | 8,592 | 86.17% | 1010 / 1000 |