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Bihar districts

Bihar

Samastipur

42,61,566
people at the 2011 Census · 22.30 L male, 20.32 L female

Population

Population
42.62 LIndia 121.09 Cr
Urban %
3.47%India 31.14%

Literacy

Literacy
61.86%India 72.98%
Male Lit.
71.25%India 80.88%
Female Lit.
51.51%India 64.63%
Lit. Gap
19.74 ppIndia 16.25 pp

Society

Sex Ratio
911 / 1000India 943 / 1000
Child Sex Ratio
923 / 1000India 918 / 1000
Under 7
18.71%India 13.59%
SC %
18.85%India 16.63%
ST %
0.04%India 8.63%
Household
5.10India 4.85

Work

Workers
31.52%India 39.80%
Female Work
15.05%India 25.52%
Main Workers
67.55%India 75.24%
Non-Workers
68.48%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.

Samastipur in context

With 42,61,566 people at the 2011 Census, Samastipur was the 45th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 6th most populous of Bihar's 38. That is 4.1% of everyone living in Bihar at the time.

Literacy stood at 61.86%, 11.1 points below the national 72.98% — level with the Bihar average. That ranked it 532nd of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 19.7 points, 3.5 points above the national gap of 16.3.

The sex ratio was 911 women per 1,000 men (7 below the Bihar figure of 918).

Samastipur contained 7 towns — 3 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 Samastipur (Nagar Parishad), with 62,935 people. That put 3.5% of the district in urban areas, 7.8 points below the Bihar share of 11.3%.

Towns in Samastipur

Samastipur has 7 census towns. The largest are listed below.

Largest towns in Samastipur by 2011 Census population.
TownPopulationLiteracySex ratio
Samastipur (Nagar Parishad)62,93584.88%906 / 1000
Rosera (NP)31,15576.35%900 / 1000
Dalsinghsarai (NP)23,86277.86%901 / 1000
Mathurapur (CT)7,62777.22%899 / 1000
Bhuindhara (CT)6,61482.21%904 / 1000
Bhagirathpur (CT)5,32362.05%894 / 1000
Dharampur (CT)5,29174.48%914 / 1000