Saraikela-Kharsawan
Population
- Population
- 10.65 LIndia 121.09 Cr
- Urban %
- 24.29%India 31.14%
Literacy
- Literacy
- 67.70%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 79.03%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 55.88%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 23.15 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 956 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 943 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 14.98%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 5.28%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 35.18%India 8.63%
- Household
- 4.81India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 40.38%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 28.19%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 53.16%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 59.62%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.
Saraikela-Kharsawan in context
With 10,65,056 people at the 2011 Census, Saraikela-Kharsawan was the 427th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 14th most populous of Jharkhand's 24. That is 3.2% of everyone living in Jharkhand at the time.
Literacy stood at 67.70%, 5.3 points below the national 72.98% — 1.3 points above the Jharkhand average. That ranked it 432nd of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 23.1 points, 6.9 points above the national gap of 16.3.
The sex ratio was 956 women per 1,000 men (8 above the Jharkhand figure of 948). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 943, 25 above the national 918.
Saraikela-Kharsawan contained 7 towns — 2 with a municipal body of some kind, and 5 classed as census towns, meaning they met the census's urban test without having one. The largest was Adityapur (Nagar Parishad), with 1,74,355 people. That put 24.3% of the district in urban areas, level with the Jharkhand share of 24.1%.
Towns in Saraikela-Kharsawan
Saraikela-Kharsawan has 7 census towns. The largest are listed below.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adityapur (Nagar Parishad) | 1.74 L | 81.93% | 902 / 1000 |
| Kopali (CT) | 43,256 | 72.41% | 937 / 1000 |
| Seraikela (NP) | 14,252 | 83.80% | 913 / 1000 |
| Kandra (CT) | 8,157 | 76.45% | 924 / 1000 |
| Chota Gamahria (CT) | 7,505 | 88.48% | 861 / 1000 |
| Sini (CT) | 6,382 | 84.52% | 911 / 1000 |
| Chandil (CT) | 4,839 | 78.83% | 936 / 1000 |