Palamu
Population
- Population
- 19.40 LIndia 121.09 Cr
- Urban %
- 11.65%India 31.14%
Literacy
- Literacy
- 63.63%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 74.30%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 52.09%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 22.21 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 928 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 945 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 17.00%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 27.65%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 9.34%India 8.63%
- Household
- 5.41India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 36.76%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 25.72%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 39.78%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 63.24%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.
Palamu in context
With 19,39,869 people at the 2011 Census, Palamu was the 243rd most populous of India's 640 districts and the 6th most populous of Jharkhand's 24. That is 5.9% of everyone living in Jharkhand at the time.
Literacy stood at 63.63%, 9.4 points below the national 72.98% — 2.8 points below the Jharkhand average. That ranked it 511th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 22.2 points, 6.0 points above the national gap of 16.3.
The sex ratio was 928 women per 1,000 men (20 below the Jharkhand figure of 948). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 945, 27 above the national 918.
Palamu contained 9 towns — 3 with a municipal body of some kind, and 6 classed as census towns, meaning they met the census's urban test without having one. The largest was Medininagar (Daltonganj) (Nagar Parishad), with 78,396 people. That put 11.7% of the district in urban areas, 12.4 points below the Jharkhand share of 24.1%.
Towns in Palamu
Palamu has 9 census towns. The largest are listed below.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medininagar (Daltonganj) (Nagar Parishad) | 78,396 | 87.89% | 892 / 1000 |
| Bishrampur (NP) | 42,925 | 70.06% | 913 / 1000 |
| Hussainabad (NP) | 29,241 | 71.99% | 914 / 1000 |
| Baratola (CT) | 14,880 | 85.34% | 873 / 1000 |
| Sundna (CT) | 14,552 | 87.77% | 884 / 1000 |
| Shah Pur (CT) | 13,513 | 72.22% | 937 / 1000 |
| Rerma (CT) | 12,497 | 85.28% | 910 / 1000 |
| Satgawan Alias Hariharganj (CT) | 11,811 | 79.52% | 929 / 1000 |