Kendujhar District Population, Odisha - Census India 2011

Kendujhar is one of district of Odisha in India. There are 24 Taluks, 2,123 villages and 9 towns in Kendujhar district.

As per the Census India 2011, Kendujhar district has 405,272 households, population of 1,801,733 of which 906,487 are males and 895,246 are females. The population of children between age 0-6 is 259,403 which is 14.4% of total population.

The sex-ratio of Kendujhar district is around 988 compared to 979 which is average of Odisha state. The literacy rate of Kendujhar district is 58.42% out of which 66.75% males are literate and 49.97% females are literate. The total area of Kendujhar is 8,303 sq.km with population density of 217 per sq.km.

Out of total population, 85.95% of population lives in Urban area and 14.05% lives in Rural area. There are 11.62% Scheduled Caste (SC) and 45.45% Scheduled Tribe (ST) of total population in Kendujhar district.

Kendujhar Religion Population

Description	Population	Percentage
Total	1,801,733	100%
Hindu	1,752,694	97.28%
Muslim	27,752	1.54%
Christian	9,141	0.51%
Other religions and persuasions	7,372	0.41%
Religion not stated	2,257	0.13%
Sikh	2,177	0.12%
Buddhist	209	0.01%
Jain	131	0.01%

Kendujhar 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)	202	8,101
Number of households	56,824	348,448
Total Population	253,059	1,548,674
Population (%)	52.09%	49.98%
Male Population	131,820	774,667
Female Population	121,239	774,007
Sex Ratio	920	999
Literacy (%)	67.9%	56.87%

List of Taluks in Kendujhar

Check out complete list of all Taluks of Kendujhar district, Odisha

Kendujhar Population Facts

Number of Households	405,272
Population	1,801,733
Male Population	906,487 (50.31%)
Female Population	895,246 (49.69%)
Children Population	259,403
Area	8,303 km2
Population density/km2	217
Sex-ratio	988
Literacy	58.42%
Male Literacy	66.75%
Female Literacy	49.97%
Scheduled Tribes (ST) %	45.45%
Scheduled Caste (SC) %	11.62%