Lahan Municipality Profile | Facts & Statistics

Lahan is a Municipality, which is located in Siraha district, Province No. 2 of Nepal. Lahan has total 24 wards, which are scattered across 167 square kilometers of geographical area. According to 2011 Census conducted by Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Lahan Municipality had total population of 91,766.

As of 2011, 3,601 population in Lahan Municipality were absent from their households, which equals to 3.92 percent of the total population. Absence of males was 3,532, which equals to 7.76 percent of total 45,515 males. Same as, 69 females were absent, which equals to 0.15 percent of 46,251 females. At least one member of 2,984 (17.37 percent) households were absent.

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As illustrated in the charts, the ratio of absentee population was 24.48, while male to female absentee population ratio was 51.19. Same as, the household ratio of present vs. absent population was 4.76.

In terms of age, the largest population in Lahan Municipality were between 10 and 14 years of age with total 12,423. Gender wise, there were 6,299 males and 6,124 females of the same age group. The least populated age group was above 75 with total 939 population, which consistes of 470 males and 469 females. Top 5 most populated age groups were between 10 and 14 (12,423), between 5 and 9 (11,993), between 15 and 19 (9,682), below 4 (8,928), between 20 and 24 (7,463) with total population of 50,489. In contrast, bottom 5 least populated age groups were above 75 (939), between 70 and 74 (1,121), between 65 and 69 (1,746), between 60 and 64 (2,686), and between 55 and 59 (2,981) with total population of 9,473. The median age-group of total population falls between 35 and 39 and between 40 and 44 with average population of 5,508.

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Gender wise, top 5 most age groups male population were between 10 and 14 (6,299), between 5 and 9 (6,225), between 15 and 19 (4,958), below 4 (4,604), and between 20 and 24 (3,431), with total population of 25,517. In contrast, bottom 5 least age group male population were above 75 (470), between 70 and 74 (575), between 65 and 69 (923),between 60 and 64 (1,304), and between 55 and 59 (1,580), with total population of 4,852. With regards to female population, top 5 age groups females were between 10 and 14 (6,124), between 5 and 9 (5,768), between 15 and 19 (4,724), below 4 (4,324), and between 20 and 24 (4,032), with total population of 24,972. In contrast, bottom 5 least age group male population were above 75 (469), between 70 and 74 (546), between 65 and 69 (823),between 60 and 64 (1,382), and between 55 and 59 (1,401), with total population of 4,621.

The population with age-group 45 to 49 had male to female ratio of 1.13, 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 0.79. The age-groups 45 to 49, 55 to 59, 65 to 69, 5 to 9, below 4, 15 to 19, 50 to 54, 70 to 74, 10 to 14 had majority of male population while age-groups 40 to 44, 60 to 64, 35 to 39, 20 to 24, 25 to 29, 30 to 34 had majority of female population as per male-female ratios. Moreover, age-groups above 75 had eqivalent or almost equal numbers of male and female population with male-female ratios of 1.

The population pyramid for Lahan 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 Lahan Municipality as per 2011 population census was 0.98 with 49.60% (45,515) of males and 50.40% (46,251) of females.

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There were 59.52 % (54,616 ) of independent population, the working age people between ages of 15 and 64 years. The dependent children, ages below 15 years, were 36.34 % with total number of 33,344. The dependent elderly population, aged 65 and above were 4.15 % with total number of 3,806. As such, total dependent population including children and elderly people were 40.48 with total number of 37,150

There were 23,780 women of child-bearing age-group of 15 to 49 years. Same as, the todlers or children of 4 years or below were 8,928. The ratio of woman of child-bearing age and the number of todlers state that, approximately 375 children were born per 1,000 women. This number is also roughly used as fertility levels when direct measures of births are not available.

According to Nepal Government records as of 2017, there were total 4,438 in Lahan Municipality with 2,268 (51.10%) of males and 2,170 (48.90%) females. There were total 113 schools. In average, 39 students were studying in each school.

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The pie-chart and graphs above further illustrates the students and schools.

Mostly spoken language in Lahan is Maithili, which is spoken by 64,194 people. The Lahan has people who speak other languages, such as Tharu, Nepali, Urdu, Sunuwar, Magar, Tamang, Danuwar, Rajsthani, Doteli, Hindi, Newar, Bangla, Limbu, Rai, Bhojpuri, Magahi, Gurung, etc.

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Out of total population, 32,001 female speaks Maithili language, while 32,193 male speaks Maithili language.Details information about languages spoken by male and female groups of population has been illustrated in the table.

According to 2011 census conducted by Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Lahan Municipality was inhabitted by mostly the people of Tharu caste with total population of 15,660. There were as little as Dev caste with population of as little as 21 in total. People of several other castes who live in Lahan are Yadav, Koiri/Kushwaha, Muslim, Musahar, Chamar/Harijan/Ram, Teli, Dusadh/Pasawan/Pasi, Sudhi, Haluwai, Tatma/Tatwa, Chhetri, Dhanuk, Kathbaniyan, Brahmin - Hill, Mallaha, Khatwe, Hajam/Thakur, Kewat, Danuwar, Kami, Magar, Kumhar, Tamang, Sunuwar, Kalwar, Baraee, Rajput, Terai Others, Sonar, Damai/Dholi, Brahmin - Tarai, Marwadi, Sarki, Kayastha, Rai, Dhobi, Badhaee, Dom, Kurmi, Newar, Sanyasi/Dashnami, Halkhor, Lohar, Gharti/Bhujel, Mali, Bangali, Undefined Others, Kumal, Punjabi/Shikh, Limbu, Gaderi/Bhedhar, Amat, Rajdhob, Majhi, Kalar, Thakuri, Gurung, Dev, etc. Only the population of castes with above 1,000 population are illustrated in the table.

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Top five castes of people in Lahan Municipality are Tharu (15,660), Yadav (10,648), Koiri/Kushwaha (7,795), Muslim (7,382) and Musahar (7,380) with total population of 48,865, which forms 53.25 percent out of total population of 91,766 in Lahan Municipality.

Out of total population of 91,766, there were total 1,448 (1.58%) disabled persons in Lahan Municipality with 822 (56.77%) males and 626 (43.23%) females. The physically disabled persons were 468, while mentally disabled people were 112 and intellectually disabled were 38.

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Similarly, there were 295 people who were blind and 189 people were deaf, while 31 people were both blind and deaf. Moreover, 159 persons had reported of having speech problems. Total 156 people had multiple disabilities.

The pie-chart above illustrate the better picture of disabled population along with genderwise ratios.

Out of total 17182 households in Lahan Municipality, there were 737 houses that were founded on mud bonded while 4,676 houses were cement bonded. Same as, 941 households were reported of being founded on RCC piller, 10,572houses were founded on wood.

With respect to wall of the houses, 782 houses were mud bonded, 5,392 houses were cement bonded, 607 houses were wood planks bonded, 10,117 houses were bamboo bonded and 24 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.

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There were several types of house roofs reported. Total 5,200 houses were reported of having thatch roofs while 1,235 houses had galvanized roofs. Similarly, 7,033 houses had roof of tile, 3,275 houses had RCC roofs, 169 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.

With respect to the toilets, 11,002 out of 17,182 houses didn't report of having a private toilet for their households. Nevertheless, 3,971 houses were reported of having flush toilet while 2,076 houses reported having ordinary toilets.

In Lahan Municipality, there were total 2,040 houses, which were equiped with piped tap water resources while 13,123 houses were reported of having tubewell water facilities. Same as, 93 houses had covered well while 1,399 houses didn't have any cover on their tubewell. Other resources of water facilities were spout water (31) and river stream (118), which were reported of the household's source of water.

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With reference to source of fuel, 8,498 households reported their source of fuel as firewood while 174 households had kerosene as their fuel source. The LP gas was used by 1,878 households as a source of fuel. Moreover, other sources of fuel were cow dung (6,435), bio-gas (46), fuel electricity (4), etc.

Same as, total 13,164 households had reported of having electricity as the source of their household's lighting. The households still using kerosene as source of light were 3,323, while 288 households used solar energy as source of lights. Total 0 households also reported of using bio-gas as a source of light. The ratio of use of electricity as compared to other source of light was 0.77.

out of 17,182 households in Lahan Municipality, 2,238 houses reported of having no any facility in their household while 14,498 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.Bicycle was used by the maximum households with total users of 10,584, while MobilePhone was the next mostly used facilities with total household users of 10,317.

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According to 2018 Economic Census, there are total 2,126 establishments in Lahan Municipality that are involved in various economic activities. In those establishments, total 6,196 persons are engaged for the economic activities, as a self-employed or an employee, with total male engagement of 4,550 and female engagement of 1,646 persons.In every business, there were an average of 2.91 people engaged with average males are 2.14 and females are 0.77. The ratio of male to female engagement in the establishments are 2.76, which means as many as 2.76 males are enagement in the economic activities per female.

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Similarly, the engagement of males were 73.43 percent while the females are 26.57 percent.

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