Purbi Singhbhum
Population
- Population
- 22.94 LIndia 121.09 Cr
- Urban %
- 55.56%India 31.14%
Literacy
- Literacy
- 75.49%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 83.75%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 66.81%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 16.94 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 949 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 923 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 12.93%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 4.86%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 28.51%India 8.63%
- Household
- 4.81India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 36.50%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 19.78%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 63.26%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 63.50%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.
Purbi Singhbhum in context
With 22,93,919 people at the 2011 Census, Purbi Singhbhum was the 198th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 4th most populous of Jharkhand's 24. That is 7.0% of everyone living in Jharkhand at the time.
Literacy stood at 75.49%, 2.5 points above the national 72.98% — 9.1 points above the Jharkhand average. That ranked it 253rd of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 16.9 points, 0.7 points above the national gap of 16.3.
The sex ratio was 949 women per 1,000 men (level with the Jharkhand figure of 948).
36.5% of the population were recorded as workers, 3.2 points below the Jharkhand rate. Female work participation was 19.8%, 9.3 points below the state figure.
Purbi Singhbhum contained 15 towns — 4 with a municipal body of some kind, and 11 classed as census towns, meaning they met the census's urban test without having one. The largest was Jamshedpur (NAC), with 6,31,364 people. That put 55.6% of the district in urban areas, 31.5 points above the Jharkhand share of 24.1%.
Towns in Purbi Singhbhum
Purbi Singhbhum has 15 census towns. The largest are listed below.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jamshedpur (NAC) | 6.31 L | 86.91% | 920 / 1000 |
| Mango (NAC) | 2.24 L | 85.81% | 930 / 1000 |
| Bagbera (CT) | 78,356 | 82.04% | 929 / 1000 |
| Jugsalai (M) | 49,660 | 84.36% | 907 / 1000 |
| Ghatshila (CT) | 40,624 | 85.03% | 943 / 1000 |
| Chhota Gobindpur (CT) | 31,843 | 89.31% | 899 / 1000 |
| Musabani (CT) | 31,035 | 79.20% | 932 / 1000 |
| Haludbani (CT) | 25,360 | 84.68% | 958 / 1000 |