Nawada

With 22,19,146 people at the 2011 Census, Nawada was the 205th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 24th most populous of Bihar's 38. That is 2.1% of everyone living in Bihar at the time.

Literacy stood at 59.76%, 13.2 points below the national 72.98% — 2.0 points below the Bihar average. That ranked it 567th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 21.1 points, 4.9 points above the national gap of 16.3.

The sex ratio was 939 women per 1,000 men (21 above the Bihar figure of 918). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 945, 27 above the national 918.

36.8% of the population were recorded as workers, 3.5 points above the Bihar rate. Female work participation was 25.8%, 6.8 points above the state figure.

Nawada contained 5 towns — 4 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 Nawada (Nagar Parishad), with 98,029 people. That put 9.7% of the district in urban areas, 1.6 points below the Bihar share of 11.3%.