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Bihar districts

Bihar

Kishanganj

16,90,400
people at the 2011 Census · 8.67 L male, 8.23 L female

Population

Population
16.90 LIndia 121.09 Cr
Urban %
9.53%India 31.14%

Literacy

Literacy
55.46%India 72.98%
Male Lit.
63.66%India 80.88%
Female Lit.
46.76%India 64.63%
Lit. Gap
16.90 ppIndia 16.25 pp

Society

Sex Ratio
950 / 1000India 943 / 1000
Child Sex Ratio
971 / 1000India 918 / 1000
Under 7
20.52%India 13.59%
SC %
6.69%India 16.63%
ST %
3.80%India 8.63%
Household
4.99India 4.85

Work

Workers
31.30%India 39.80%
Female Work
13.10%India 25.52%
Main Workers
72.66%India 75.24%
Non-Workers
68.70%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.

Kishanganj in context

With 16,90,400 people at the 2011 Census, Kishanganj was the 293rd most populous of India's 640 districts and the 30th most populous of Bihar's 38. That is 1.6% of everyone living in Bihar at the time.

Literacy stood at 55.46%, 17.5 points below the national 72.98% — 6.3 points below the Bihar average. That ranked it 606th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 16.9 points, 0.6 points above the national gap of 16.3.

The sex ratio was 950 women per 1,000 men (32 above the Bihar figure of 918). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 971, 53 above the national 918.

Female work participation was 13.1%, 6.0 points below the state figure.

Kishanganj contained 3 towns. The largest was Kishanganj (Nagar Parishad), with 1,05,782 people. That put 9.5% of the district in urban areas, 1.8 points below the Bihar share of 11.3%.

Towns in Kishanganj

Kishanganj has 3 census towns. The largest are listed below.

Largest towns in Kishanganj by 2011 Census population.
TownPopulationLiteracySex ratio
Kishanganj (Nagar Parishad)1.06 L73.46%918 / 1000
Bahadurganj (NP)36,99361.90%960 / 1000
Thakurganj (NP)18,34876.09%905 / 1000