Saharsa
Population
- Population
- 19.01 LIndia 121.09 Cr
- Urban %
- 8.24%India 31.14%
Literacy
- Literacy
- 53.20%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 63.56%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 41.68%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 21.88 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 906 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 933 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 20.39%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 16.69%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 0.32%India 8.63%
- Household
- 5.15India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 34.19%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 21.38%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 55.91%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 65.81%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.
Saharsa in context
With 19,00,661 people at the 2011 Census, Saharsa was the 246th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 27th most populous of Bihar's 38. That is 1.8% of everyone living in Bihar at the time.
Literacy stood at 53.20%, 19.8 points below the national 72.98% — 8.6 points below the Bihar average. That ranked it 617th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 21.9 points, 5.6 points above the national gap of 16.3.
The sex ratio was 906 women per 1,000 men (12 below the Bihar figure of 918). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 933, 15 above the national 918.
Saharsa contained 1 town. The largest was Saharsa (Nagar Parishad), with 1,56,540 people. That put 8.2% of the district in urban areas, 3.0 points below the Bihar share of 11.3%.
Towns in Saharsa
Saharsa has one census town.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Saharsa (Nagar Parishad) | 1.57 L | 75.63% | 879 / 1000 |