Saran

With 39,51,862 people at the 2011 Census, Saran was the 59th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 7th most populous of Bihar's 38. That is 3.8% of everyone living in Bihar at the time.

Literacy stood at 65.96%, 7.0 points below the national 72.98% — 4.2 points above the Bihar average. That ranked it 466th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 22.6 points, 6.4 points above the national gap of 16.3.

The sex ratio was 954 women per 1,000 men (36 above the Bihar figure of 918).

26.3% of the population were recorded as workers, 7.0 points below the Bihar rate. Female work participation was 9.5%, 9.6 points below the state figure.

Saran contained 6 towns — 5 with a municipal body of some kind, and 1 classed as census towns, meaning they met the census's urban test without having one. The largest was Chapra (Nagar Parishad), with 2,02,352 people. That put 8.9% of the district in urban areas, 2.3 points below the Bihar share of 11.3%.