Giridih District Population, Jharkhand - Census India 2011

Giridih is one of district of Jharkhand in India. There are 13 Taluks, 2,749 villages and 12 towns in Giridih district.

As per the Census India 2011, Giridih district has 396,521 households, population of 2,445,474 of which 1,258,098 are males and 1,187,376 are females. The population of children between age 0-6 is 460,251 which is 18.82% of total population.

The sex-ratio of Giridih district is around 944 compared to 948 which is average of Jharkhand state. The literacy rate of Giridih district is 51.26% out of which 62.3% males are literate and 39.56% females are literate. The total area of Giridih is 4,962 sq.km with population density of 493 per sq.km.

Out of total population, 91.49% of population lives in Urban area and 8.51% lives in Rural area. There are 13.31% Scheduled Caste (SC) and 9.74% Scheduled Tribe (ST) of total population in Giridih district.

Giridih Religion Population

Description	Population	Percentage
Total	2,445,474	100%
Hindu	1,856,202	75.9%
Muslim	508,586	20.8%
Other religions and persuasions	59,218	2.42%
Christian	14,645	0.6%
Religion not stated	3,733	0.15%
Jain	1,503	0.06%
Sikh	937	0.04%
Buddhist	650	0.03%

Giridih Urban & Rural Population

Out of total population, 50% of population lives in Urban area and 60% lives in Rural area

Description	Urban	Rural
Area(sq.km)	53	4,909
Number of households	35,812	360,709
Total Population	208,024	2,237,450
Population (%)	52.15%	48.62%
Male Population	108,490	1,149,608
Female Population	99,534	1,087,842
Sex Ratio	917	946
Literacy (%)	67.28%	49.77%

List of Taluks in Giridih

Check out complete list of all Taluks of Giridih district, Jharkhand

Giridih Population Facts

Number of Households	396,521
Population	2,445,474
Male Population	1,258,098 (51.45%)
Female Population	1,187,376 (48.55%)
Children Population	460,251
Area	4,962 km2
Population density/km2	493
Sex-ratio	944
Literacy	51.26%
Male Literacy	62.3%
Female Literacy	39.56%
Scheduled Tribes (ST) %	9.74%
Scheduled Caste (SC) %	13.31%