Sheikhpura
Population
- Population
- 6.36 LIndia 121.09 Cr
- Urban %
- 17.13%India 31.14%
Literacy
- Literacy
- 63.86%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 73.56%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 53.40%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 20.16 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 930 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 940 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 19.12%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 20.60%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 0.10%India 8.63%
- Household
- 6.32India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 35.30%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 23.84%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 65.88%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 64.70%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.
Sheikhpura in context
With 6,36,342 people at the 2011 Census, Sheikhpura was the 516th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 38th most populous of Bihar's 38. That is 0.6% of everyone living in Bihar at the time.
Literacy stood at 63.86%, 9.1 points below the national 72.98% — 2.1 points above the Bihar average. That ranked it 505th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 20.2 points, 3.9 points above the national gap of 16.3.
The sex ratio was 930 women per 1,000 men (12 above the Bihar figure of 918). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 940, 22 above the national 918.
Sheikhpura contained 2 towns. The largest was Sheikhpura (Nagar Parishad), with 62,927 people. That put 17.1% of the district in urban areas, 5.8 points above the Bihar share of 11.3%.
Towns in Sheikhpura
Sheikhpura has 2 census towns. The largest are listed below.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sheikhpura (Nagar Parishad) | 62,927 | 69.04% | 899 / 1000 |
| Barbigha (NP) | 46,075 | 73.63% | 900 / 1000 |