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Jharkhand districts

Jharkhand

Purbi Singhbhum

22,93,919
people at the 2011 Census · 11.77 L male, 11.17 L female

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.

Largest towns in Purbi Singhbhum by 2011 Census population.
TownPopulationLiteracySex ratio
Jamshedpur (NAC)6.31 L86.91%920 / 1000
Mango (NAC)2.24 L85.81%930 / 1000
Bagbera (CT)78,35682.04%929 / 1000
Jugsalai (M)49,66084.36%907 / 1000
Ghatshila (CT)40,62485.03%943 / 1000
Chhota Gobindpur (CT)31,84389.31%899 / 1000
Musabani (CT)31,03579.20%932 / 1000
Haludbani (CT)25,36084.68%958 / 1000
All 15 towns in Purbi Singhbhum