Bettiah Population | Religion, Literacy, Workers, male-female Percentage

Bettiah Population: Bettiah is a Nagar Parishad city situated in the Bettiah block of Pashchim Champaran district.

The Bettiah city is divided into 39 wards for which elections are held every 5 years.

As per the Population Census 2011, there is a total of 24,463 families residing in the Bettiah city.

The total population of Bettiah is 132,209 out of which 69,529 are males and 62,680 are females thus the Average Sex Ratio of Bettiah is 901.

The Bettiah Population of Children age 0-6 years in Bettiah city is 18995 which is 14% of the total population.

There are 10039 male children and 8956 female children between the age of 0-6 years.

As per the Census 2011, the literacy rate of Bettiah is 80.6%. Thus Bettiah has a higher literacy rate compared to 55.7% of the West Champaran district.

The male literacy rate is 85.02% and the female literacy rate is 75.8% in Bettiah.

Bettiah Nagar Parishad has total administration over 24,463 houses to which it supplies basic amenities such as water and sewerage.

It is also authorized to build roads within Nagar Parishad limits and impose taxes on properties coming under its jurisdiction.

The details of the 2011 census by population are as follows.

Annual Bettiah Population Change

2001-2011	1991-2001
+2.92 %/year	+2.33 %/year

Demographics Of Bettiah City

The city is home to about 1.3 lakh people, among them about 70 thousand (53%) are male and about 63 thousand (47%) are female.

93% of the whole population are from general caste, 6% are from schedule caste and 1% are scheduled tribes.

The child (aged under 6 years) population of Bettiah Nagar Parishad is 14%, among them, 53% are boys and 47% are girls.

There are about 24 thousand households in the city and an average of 5 persons live in every family.

Caste wise Bettiah male female Bettiah Population 2011

#	Total	General	Schedule Caste	Schedule Tribe	Child
Total	132,209	123,115	8,266	828	18,995
Male	69,529	64,777	4,315	437	10,039
Female	62,680	58,338	3,951	391	8,956

Religion wise distribution of Bettiah population

Hindus contribute 64% of the total population and are the second largest religious community in the city followed by Muslims which contribute 34% of the total Bettiah Population and Christians are the third largest religious community here with 2% population.

The female Sex ratio per 1000 male in Hindus is 886 in Muslims are 923 and in Christians are 1058.

Religion wise population Bettiah

#	Total	Hindu	Muslim	Christian	Sikh	Buddhist	Jain	Others	Not Stated
Total	132,209	84,725	44,579	2,513	150	13	13	37	179
Male	69,529	44,931	23,176	1,221	71	6	7	19	98
Female	62,680	39,794	21,403	1,292	79	7	6	18	81

Growth of population

The population of the city has increased by 13.3% in the last 10 years. In the 2001 census total population here was about 1.2 lakh.

The female population growth rate of the city is 14.1% which is 1.5% higher than the male population growth rate of 12.6%.

The general caste population has increased by 13.5%; the Schedule caste population has increased by 8.6%;

Schedule Tribe population has increased by 46.5% and the child population has decreased by -3.2% in the city since the last census.

Growth of population (percent) 2001 to 2011 – Bettiah

#	Total	General	Schedule Caste	Schedule Tribe	Child
Total	13.3%	13.5%	8.6%	46.5%	-3.2%
Male	12.6%	12.9%	5.3%	63.7%	-1.4%
Female	14.1%	14.1%	12.5%	31.2%	-5.2%

[Sex Ratio] Females per 1000 Male

As of the 2011 census, there are 901 females per 1000 males in the city. The sex ratio in the general caste is 901, in schedule caste is 916 and in the schedule, the tribe is 895.

There are 901 girls under 6 years of age per 1000 boys of the same age in the city.

The overall sex ratio in the city has increased by 12 females per 1000 males during the years from 2001 to 2011.

The child sex ratio here has decreased by 37 girls per 1000 boys at the same time.

Change in sex ratio 2001 to 2011 – Bettiah

#	Total	General	SC	ST	Child
Change	12	10	59	– 221	– 37
2011	901	901	916	895	892
2001	889	891	857	1116	929

Literacy Rate In Bettiah

Total of about 91 thousand people in the city are literate, among them about 51 thousand are male and about 41 thousand are female.

The literacy rate (children under 6 are excluded) of Bettiah is 81%. 85% of males and 76% of the female Bettiah Population are literate here.

Overall literacy rate in the city has increased by 5%. Male literacy has gone up by 3% and the female literacy rate has gone up by 8%.

Change in literacy rate 2001 to 2011 – Bettiah

#	Total	Male	Female
Change	4.7%	2.5%	7.4%
2011	80.6%	85%	75.8%
2001	75.9%	82.5%	68.4%

Workers profile

Bettiah has 28% (about 37 thousand) population engaged in either main or marginal works. 45% male and 9% female population are working population.

37% of the total male population are main (full time) workers and 8% are marginal (part-time) workers.

For women, 7% of total female population is the main, and 3% are marginal workers.

Percentage of working population – Bettiah

#	Worker	Main Worker	Marginal Worker	Non Worker
Total	27.9%	22.6%	5.4%	72.1%
Male	44.7%	37%	7.7%	55.3%
Female	9.3%	6.5%	2.8%	90.7%

Bettiah Religion Data 2011

TOWN	POPULATION	HINDU	MUSLIM	CHRISTIAN	SIKH	BUDDHIST	JAIN	OTHERS	NOT STATED
Bettiah	132,209	64.08%	33.72%	1.90%	0.11%	0.01%	0.01%	0.03%	0.14%

Caste wise Population Of Bettiah City

Schedule Caste (SC) constitutes 6.3% while Schedule Tribe (ST) were 0.6% of total population in Bettiah.

#	Total	Male	Female
Schedule Caste	8,266	4,315	3,951
Schedule Tribe	828	437	391

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