Rohtas
Population
- Population
- 29.60 LIndia 121.09 Cr
- Urban %
- 14.45%India 31.14%
Literacy
- Literacy
- 73.37%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 82.88%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 62.97%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 19.91 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 918 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 931 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 17.12%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 18.57%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 1.07%India 8.63%
- Household
- 6.43India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 31.25%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 15.32%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 58.65%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 68.75%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.
Rohtas in context
With 29,59,918 people at the 2011 Census, Rohtas was the 128th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 17th most populous of Bihar's 38. That is 2.8% of everyone living in Bihar at the time.
Literacy stood at 73.37%, level with the national 72.98% — 11.6 points above the Bihar average. That ranked it 287th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 19.9 points, 3.7 points above the national gap of 16.3.
The sex ratio was 918 women per 1,000 men (level with the Bihar figure of 918).
Rohtas contained 10 towns — 6 with a municipal body of some kind, and 4 classed as census towns, meaning they met the census's urban test without having one. The largest was Sasaram (Nagar Parishad), with 1,47,408 people. That put 14.4% of the district in urban areas, 3.2 points above the Bihar share of 11.3%.
Towns in Rohtas
Rohtas has 10 census towns. The largest are listed below.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sasaram (Nagar Parishad) | 1.47 L | 80.26% | 900 / 1000 |
| Dehri (Nagar Parishad) | 1.37 L | 81.20% | 896 / 1000 |
| Bikramganj (NP) | 48,465 | 74.76% | 882 / 1000 |
| Nokha (NP) | 27,302 | 75.69% | 897 / 1000 |
| Nasriganj (NP) | 23,819 | 74.11% | 916 / 1000 |
| Koath (NP) | 18,890 | 66.36% | 925 / 1000 |
| Saraiya (CT) | 8,260 | 68.37% | 885 / 1000 |
| Chanari (CT) | 6,569 | 77.87% | 911 / 1000 |