Shahidnagar Municipality Profile | Facts & Statistics
Shahidnagar is a Municipality, which is located in Dhanusa district, Province No. 2 of Nepal. Shahidnagar has total 9 wards, which are scattered across 57 square kilometers of geographical area. According to 2011 Census conducted by Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Shahidnagar Municipality had total population of 43,007.
As per 2011 population census, Shahidnagar Municipality had total 47,422 population with 23,148 males and 24,274 females. Out of total wards, ward number 1 had the largest population 7,820, while ward number 5 had least number of population with 7,820.
With respect to number of households, Shahidnagar Municipality had total 8,671 households. The ward number 1 had most households with total 1,387, while ward number 5 had least number of households with total 656 number of households.
As illustrated in the chart, the ratio of male to female population was 0.95, which indicates that Shahidnagar Municipality had 5 percent lower males as compared to the females. Same as, the population to household ratio was 5.47, which means that in average 5.47 family members lived in each household.
As of 2011, 4,594 population in Shahidnagar Municipality were absent from their households, which equals to 10.68 percent of the total population. Absence of males was 4,570, which equals to 19.74 percent of total 23,148 males. Same as, 11 females were absent, which equals to 0.05 percent of 24,274 females. At least one member of 3,697 (42.64 percent) households were absent.
As illustrated in the charts, the ratio of absentee population was 8.36, while male to female absentee population ratio was 415.45. Same as, the household ratio of present vs. absent population was 1.35.
In terms of age, the largest population in Shahidnagar Municipality were between 10 and 14 years of age with total 6,824. Gender wise, there were 3,535 males and 3,289 females of the same age group. The least populated age group was above 75 with total 566 population, which consistes of 287 males and 279 females. Top 5 most populated age groups were between 10 and 14 (6,824), between 5 and 9 (6,468), below 4 (5,120), between 15 and 19 (4,350), between 20 and 24 (3,512) with total population of 26,274. In contrast, bottom 5 least populated age groups were above 75 (566), between 70 and 74 (751), between 65 and 69 (1,074), between 60 and 64 (1,594), and between 55 and 59 (1,761) with total population of 5,746. The median age-group of total population falls between 30 and 34 and between 40 and 44 with average population of 2,657.
Gender wise, top 5 most age groups male population were between 10 and 14 (3,535), between 5 and 9 (3,300), below 4 (2,621), between 15 and 19 (2,280), and between 20 and 24 (1,579), with total population of 13,315. In contrast, bottom 5 least age group male population were above 75 (287), between 70 and 74 (420), between 65 and 69 (600),between 60 and 64 (839), and between 50 and 54 (939), with total population of 3,085. With regards to female population, top 5 age groups females were between 10 and 14 (3,289), between 5 and 9 (3,168), below 4 (2,499), between 15 and 19 (2,070), and between 20 and 24 (1,933), with total population of 12,959. In contrast, bottom 5 least age group male population were above 75 (279), between 70 and 74 (331), between 65 and 69 (474),between 60 and 64 (755), and between 55 and 59 (815), with total population of 2,654.
The population with age-group 70 to 74 had male to female ratio of 1.27, which states that this age group had maximum males as compared to females. Similarly, age-group 30 to 34 had most female population as compared to male population with male to female ratio of 0.63. The age-groups 70 to 74, 65 to 69, 55 to 59, 60 to 64, 15 to 19, 10 to 14, below 4, 5 to 9, above 75, 50 to 54 had majority of male population while age-groups 45 to 49, 40 to 44, 20 to 24, 25 to 29, 35 to 39, 30 to 34 had majority of female population as per male-female ratios. Moreover, age-groups had eqivalent or almost equal numbers of male and female population with male-female ratios of 1.
The population pyramid for Shahidnagar Municipality visually illustrates the male vs. female population based on different age groups. The population data and ratio tables are also available in this link.
As illustrated in the pie-chart, overall ratio of male to female population in Shahidnagar Municipality as per 2011 population census was 0.95 with 53.82% (23,148) of males and 56.44% (24,274) of females.
There were 61.89 % (26,619 ) of independent population, the working age people between ages of 15 and 64 years. The dependent children, ages below 15 years, were 42.81 % with total number of 18,412. The dependent elderly population, aged 65 and above were 5.56 % with total number of 2,391. As such, total dependent population including children and elderly people were 48.37 with total number of 20,803
There were 11,737 women of child-bearing age-group of 15 to 49 years. Same as, the todlers or children of 4 years or below were 5,120. The ratio of woman of child-bearing age and the number of todlers state that, approximately 436 children were born per 1,000 women. This number is also roughly used as fertility levels when direct measures of births are not available.
There were only 18,314 people fully literate in Shahidnagar Municipality as of 2011 who were able to both read and write, while 1,719 people were able to read but not write. In percentage while compared to genderwise population, there were inf percent of male were literate, while the percentage of female literacy was inf only.The literacy ratio between male and female population was nan.
Out of total 11,264 population between the age of 5 and 25 as of 2011 in Shahidnagar Municipality, total 6,134 males and 5,130 females were attending the school. Same as, out of total 9,240 population of the same age group who were not attending the school, total 3,857 male and 5,383 female were not attending teh school. The ratio of male and female who were going to school was 1.20 while the ratio for those who were not attending the school was 0.72.The CBS census also states that 218 males and 239 females did not state whether they were attending school or not.
According to Nepal Government records as of 2017, there were total 7,455 in Shahidnagar Municipality with 3,586 (48.10%) of males and 3,869 (51.90%) females. There were total 36 schools. In average, 207 students were studying in each school.
Mostly spoken language in Shahidnagar is Maithili, which is spoken by 45,978 people. The Shahidnagar has people who speak other languages, such as Magahi, Nepali, Urdu, Sunuwar, Tamang, Yakkha, Newar, etc.
According to 2011 census conducted by Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Shahidnagar Municipality was inhabitted by mostly the people of Yadav caste with total population of 14,964. There were as little as Kami caste with population of as little as 16 in total. People of several other castes who live in Shahidnagar are Kewat, Dusadh/Pasawan/Pasi, Bin, Chamar/Harijan/Ram, Tatma/Tatwa, Muslim, Musahar, Dhobi, Teli, Sudhi, Dhanuk, Baraee, Khatwe, Hajam/Thakur, Haluwai, Terai Others, Brahmin - Tarai, Mallaha, Kathbaniyan, Sonar, Bantar/Sardar, Kalwar, Lohar, Koiri/Kushwaha, Nuniya, Kurmi, Dom, Kumhar, Chhetri, Mali, Sunuwar, Dhunia, Badi, Gaderi/Bhedhar, Raute, Bangali, Dhankar/Kharikar, Tamang, Kayastha, Badhaee, Undefined Others, Newar, Brahmin - Hill, Kalar, Yakkha, Punjabi/Shikh, Kami, Sarbaria, Rajput, etc. Only the population of castes with above 1,000 population are illustrated in the table.
Top five castes of people in Shahidnagar Municipality are Yadav (14,964), Kewat (7,725), Dusadh/Pasawan/Pasi (2,819), Bin (2,282) and Chamar/Harijan/Ram (2,245) with total population of 30,035, which forms 69.84 percent out of total population of 43,007 in Shahidnagar Municipality.
Out of total population of 47,422, there were total 503 (1.06%) disabled persons in Shahidnagar Municipality with 293 (58.25%) males and 210 (41.75%) females. The physically disabled persons were 195, while mentally disabled people were 46 and intellectually disabled were 16.
Similarly, there were 129 people who were blind and 46 people were deaf, while 12 people were both blind and deaf. Moreover, 38 persons had reported of having speech problems. Total 21 people had multiple disabilities.
Out of total 8671 households in Shahidnagar Municipality, there were 272 houses that were founded on mud bonded while 1,295 houses were cement bonded. Same as, 255 households were reported of being founded on RCC piller, 6,573houses were founded on wood.
With respect to wall of the houses, 253 houses were mud bonded, 1,471 houses were cement bonded, 114 houses were wood planks bonded, 6,552 houses were bamboo bonded and 20 houses had unbaked bricks on their outer walls.Rest of the houses were reported of having other types of outer wall, while some of them reported nothing of having the outer wall bonding.
There were several types of house roofs reported. Total 2,165 houses were reported of having thatch roofs while 129 houses had galvanized roofs. Similarly, 4,933 houses had roof of tile, 1,077 houses had RCC roofs, 136 houses had roof of woods while 0 houses were reported having roof of mud. As per 2011 CBS census, some of the houses had other types of roofs while some didn't report about the roof structure.
In Shahidnagar Municipality, there were total 173 houses, which were equiped with piped tap water resources while 8,088 houses were reported of having tubewell water facilities. Same as, 8 houses had covered well while 132 houses didn't have any cover on their tubewell. Other resources of water facilities were spout water (2) and river stream (1), which were reported of the household's source of water.
out of 8,671 households in Shahidnagar Municipality, 1,283 houses reported of having no any facility in their household while 7,163 households reported of using at least one facility. Households using at least one facility, such as radio, television, internet, etc. have been illustrated in the table below.MobilePhone was used by the maximum households with total users of 5,891, while Bicycle was the next mostly used facilities with total household users of 5,362.
According to 2018 Economic Census, there are total 842 establishments in Shahidnagar Municipality that are involved in various economic activities. In those establishments, total 1,639 persons are engaged for the economic activities, as a self-employed or an employee, with total male engagement of 1,288 and female engagement of 351 persons.In every business, there were an average of 1.95 people engaged with average males are 1.53 and females are 0.42. The ratio of male to female engagement in the establishments are 3.67, which means as many as 3.67 males are enagement in the economic activities per female.
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