Madhepura
Population
- Population
- 20.02 LIndia 121.09 Cr
- Urban %
- 4.42%India 31.14%
Literacy
- Literacy
- 52.25%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 61.77%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 41.74%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 20.03 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 911 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 930 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 20.21%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 17.30%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 0.63%India 8.63%
- Household
- 4.99India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 38.84%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 29.50%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 57.04%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 61.16%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.
Madhepura in context
With 20,01,762 people at the 2011 Census, Madhepura was the 231st most populous of India's 640 districts and the 26th most populous of Bihar's 38. That is 1.9% of everyone living in Bihar at the time.
Literacy stood at 52.25%, 20.7 points below the national 72.98% — 9.5 points below the Bihar average. That ranked it 618th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 20.0 points, 3.8 points above the national gap of 16.3.
The sex ratio was 911 women per 1,000 men (7 below the Bihar figure of 918).
38.8% of the population were recorded as workers, 5.5 points above the Bihar rate. Female work participation was 29.5%, 10.4 points above the state figure.
Madhepura contained 3 towns — 2 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 Madhepura (Nagar Parishad), with 54,472 people. That put 4.4% of the district in urban areas, 6.9 points below the Bihar share of 11.3%.
Towns in Madhepura
Madhepura has 3 census towns. The largest are listed below.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Madhepura (Nagar Parishad) | 54,472 | 76.65% | 880 / 1000 |
| Murliganj (NP) | 28,691 | 67.77% | 912 / 1000 |
| Singhesar Asthan (CT) | 5,298 | 71.54% | 881 / 1000 |