Patna
Population
- Population
- 58.38 LIndia 121.09 Cr
- Urban %
- 43.07%India 31.14%
Literacy
- Literacy
- 70.68%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 78.48%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 61.96%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 16.52 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 897 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 909 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 16.16%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 15.77%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 0.16%India 8.63%
- Household
- 5.98India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 32.23%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 16.14%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 72.87%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 67.77%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.
Patna in context
With 58,38,465 people at the 2011 Census, Patna was the 15th most populous of India's 640 districts and the most populous of Bihar's 38. That is 5.6% of everyone living in Bihar at the time.
Literacy stood at 70.68%, 2.3 points below the national 72.98% — 8.9 points above the Bihar average. That ranked it 362nd of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 16.5 points, level with the national gap of 16.3.
The sex ratio was 897 women per 1,000 men (21 below the Bihar figure of 918).
Patna contained 22 towns — 15 with a municipal body of some kind, and 7 classed as census towns, meaning they met the census's urban test without having one. The largest was Patna (M Corp.), with 16,84,222 people. That put 43.1% of the district in urban areas, 31.8 points above the Bihar share of 11.3%.
Towns in Patna
Patna has 22 census towns. The largest are listed below.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Patna (M Corp.) | 16.84 L | 83.37% | 885 / 1000 |
| Dinapur Nizamat (Nagar Parishad) | 1.82 L | 77.01% | 883 / 1000 |
| Phulwari Sharif (Nagar Parishad) | 81,740 | 79.46% | 908 / 1000 |
| Barh (Nagar Parishad) | 61,470 | 75.55% | 873 / 1000 |
| Mokameh (Nagar Parishad) | 60,678 | 72.79% | 880 / 1000 |
| Masaurhi (Nagar Parishad) | 59,803 | 74.96% | 905 / 1000 |
| Fatwah (NP) | 50,961 | 70.19% | 891 / 1000 |
| Bakhtiarpur (NP) | 47,897 | 70.02% | 903 / 1000 |