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Bihar districts

Bihar

Sheohar

6,56,246
people at the 2011 Census · 3.47 L male, 3.10 L female

Population

Population
6.56 LIndia 121.09 Cr
Urban %
4.28%India 31.14%

Literacy

Literacy
53.78%India 72.98%
Male Lit.
61.31%India 80.88%
Female Lit.
45.26%India 64.63%
Lit. Gap
16.05 ppIndia 16.25 pp

Society

Sex Ratio
893 / 1000India 943 / 1000
Child Sex Ratio
929 / 1000India 918 / 1000
Under 7
19.61%India 13.59%
SC %
14.73%India 16.63%
ST %
0.05%India 8.63%
Household
4.37India 4.85

Work

Workers
32.97%India 39.80%
Female Work
16.05%India 25.52%
Main Workers
63.69%India 75.24%
Non-Workers
67.03%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.

Sheohar in context

With 6,56,246 people at the 2011 Census, Sheohar was the 511th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 37th most populous of Bihar's 38. That is 0.6% of everyone living in Bihar at the time.

Literacy stood at 53.78%, 19.2 points below the national 72.98% — 8.0 points below the Bihar average. That ranked it 613th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 16.1 points, level with the national gap of 16.3.

The sex ratio was 893 women per 1,000 men (25 below the Bihar figure of 918).

Sheohar contained 1 town. The largest was Sheohar (NP), with 28,116 people. That put 4.3% of the district in urban areas, 7.0 points below the Bihar share of 11.3%.

Towns in Sheohar

Sheohar has one census town.

Largest towns in Sheohar by 2011 Census population.
TownPopulationLiteracySex ratio
Sheohar (NP)28,11661.96%889 / 1000