Purba Champaran
Population
- Population
- 50.99 LIndia 121.09 Cr
- Urban %
- 7.87%India 31.14%
Literacy
- Literacy
- 55.79%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 65.34%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 45.12%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 20.22 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 902 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 933 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 19.97%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 12.74%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 0.24%India 8.63%
- Household
- 5.20India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 34.07%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 19.72%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 65.20%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 65.93%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.
Purba Champaran in context
With 50,99,371 people at the 2011 Census, Purba Champaran was the 20th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 2nd most populous of Bihar's 38. That is 4.9% of everyone living in Bihar at the time.
Literacy stood at 55.79%, 17.2 points below the national 72.98% — 6.0 points below the Bihar average. That ranked it 604th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 20.2 points, 4.0 points above the national gap of 16.3.
The sex ratio was 902 women per 1,000 men (16 below the Bihar figure of 918). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 933, 15 above the national 918.
Purba Champaran contained 10 towns. The largest was Motihari (Nagar Parishad), with 1,26,158 people. That put 7.9% of the district in urban areas, 3.4 points below the Bihar share of 11.3%.
Towns in Purba Champaran
Purba Champaran has 10 census towns. The largest are listed below.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Motihari (Nagar Parishad) | 1.26 L | 84.91% | 859 / 1000 |
| Raxaul Bazar (Nagar Parishad) | 55,536 | 75.62% | 888 / 1000 |
| Dhaka (NP) | 42,063 | 55.79% | 911 / 1000 |
| Sugauli (NP) | 38,815 | 64.90% | 886 / 1000 |
| Pakri Dayal (NP) | 29,582 | 52.29% | 900 / 1000 |
| Areraj (NP) | 26,014 | 73.57% | 888 / 1000 |
| Mehsi (NP) | 25,995 | 64.11% | 915 / 1000 |
| Chakia (NP) | 20,686 | 73.52% | 882 / 1000 |