Munger
Population
- Population
- 13.68 LIndia 121.09 Cr
- Urban %
- 27.79%India 31.14%
Literacy
- Literacy
- 70.46%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 77.74%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 62.08%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 15.66 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 876 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 922 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 16.81%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 13.44%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 1.56%India 8.63%
- Household
- 5.20India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 31.19%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 15.53%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 54.70%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 68.81%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.
Munger in context
With 13,67,765 people at the 2011 Census, Munger was the 358th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 33rd most populous of Bihar's 38. That is 1.3% of everyone living in Bihar at the time.
Literacy stood at 70.46%, 2.5 points below the national 72.98% — 8.7 points above the Bihar average. That ranked it 369th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 15.7 points, 0.6 points below the national gap of 16.3.
The sex ratio was 876 women per 1,000 men (42 below the Bihar figure of 918).
Munger contained 7 towns — 3 with a municipal body of some kind, and 4 classed as census towns, meaning they met the census's urban test without having one. The largest was Munger (M Corp.), with 2,13,303 people. That put 27.8% of the district in urban areas, 16.5 points above the Bihar share of 11.3%.
Towns in Munger
Munger has 7 census towns. The largest are listed below.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Munger (M Corp.) | 2.13 L | 80.14% | 883 / 1000 |
| Jamalpur (Nagar Parishad) | 1.05 L | 86.46% | 880 / 1000 |
| Kharagpur (NP) | 31,385 | 69.49% | 893 / 1000 |
| Gazipur (CT) | 11,299 | 72.87% | 899 / 1000 |
| Tarapur (CT) | 7,450 | 80.43% | 927 / 1000 |
| Asarganj (CT) | 6,327 | 87.15% | 867 / 1000 |
| Paria (CT) | 4,922 | 81.29% | 896 / 1000 |