Chhatrakot Rural Municipality Profile | Facts & Statistics
Chhatrakot is a Rural Municipality located in Gulmi District of Nepal. It has total 6 wards and 87 square kilometers of geographical area. According to 2011 census, it had total population of 21,481.
Wardwise Population and Households
As per 2011 population census, Chhatrakot Rural Municipality had total 21,481 population with 8,846 males and 12,635 females. Out of total wards, ward number 4 had the largest population 4,503, while ward number 6 had least number of population with 4,503.
With respect to number of households, Chhatrakot Rural Municipality had total 5,315 households. The ward number 4 had most households with total 1,182, while ward number 2 had least number of households with total 633 number of households.
As illustrated in the chart, the ratio of male to female population was 0.70, which indicates that Chhatrakot Rural Municipality had 30 percent lower males as compared to the females. Same as, the population to household ratio was 4.04, which means that in average 4.04 family members lived in each household.
Absentee Population
As illustrated in the charts, the ratio of absentee population was 2.92, while male to female absentee population ratio was 7.42. Same as, the household ratio of present vs. absent population was 0.62.
Population by Age Group
Gender wise, top 5 most age groups male population were between 10 and 14 (1,386), between 5 and 9 (1,327), below 4 (1,129), between 15 and 19 (914), and between 50 and 54 (406), with total population of 5,162. In contrast, bottom 5 least age group male population were between 70 and 74 (232), between 30 and 34 (285), between 35 and 39 (295),above 75 (298), and between 65 and 69 (340), with total population of 1,450. With regards to female population, top 5 age groups females were between 10 and 14 (1,461), between 15 and 19 (1,421), between 5 and 9 (1,310), between 20 and 24 (1,146), and below 4 (1,068), with total population of 6,406. In contrast, bottom 5 least age group male population were between 70 and 74 (228), above 75 (272), between 65 and 69 (348),between 60 and 64 (496), and between 55 and 59 (506), with total population of 1,850.
The population with age-group above 75 had male to female ratio of 1.10, which states that this age group had maximum males as compared to females. Similarly, age-group 20 to 24 had most female population as compared to male population with male to female ratio of 0.33. The age-groups above 75, below 4, 70 to 74, 5 to 9 had majority of male population while age-groups 65 to 69, 10 to 14, 60 to 64, 55 to 59, 50 to 54, 15 to 19, 45 to 49, 40 to 44, 30 to 34, 35 to 39, 25 to 29, 20 to 24 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 Chhatrakot Rural 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.
Population Ratios
There were 56.25 % (12,082 ) of independent population, the working age people between ages of 15 and 64 years. The dependent children, ages below 15 years, were 35.76 % with total number of 7,681. The dependent elderly population, aged 65 and above were 8.00 % with total number of 1,718. As such, total dependent population including children and elderly people were 43.75 with total number of 9,399
There were 6,353 women of child-bearing age-group of 15 to 49 years. Same as, the todlers or children of 4 years or below were 2,197. The ratio of woman of child-bearing age and the number of todlers state that, approximately 346 children were born per 1,000 women. This number is also roughly used as fertility levels when direct measures of births are not available.
Grade 1-12 Students & Schools
The pie-chart and graphs above further illustrates the students and schools.
Population by Language Spoken
Mostly spoken language in Chhatrakot is Nepali, which is spoken by 20,761 people. The Chhatrakot has people who speak other languages, such as Magar, Kumal, Newar, etc.
Out of total population, 12,254 female speaks Nepali language, while 8,507 male speaks Nepali language.Details information about languages spoken by male and female groups of population has been illustrated in the table.Population by Castes
According to 2011 census conducted by Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Chhatrakot Rural Municipality was inhabitted by mostly the people of Brahmin - Hill caste with total population of 8,196. There were as little as Terai Others caste with population of as little as 13 in total. People of several other castes who live in Chhatrakot are Magar, Chhetri, Kami, Sarki, Damai/Dholi, Kumal, Newar, Gharti/Bhujel, Sanyasi/Dashnami, Bote, Muslim, Tharu, Dalit Others, Thakuri, Terai Others, etc. Only the population of castes with above 1,000 population are illustrated in the table.
Top five castes of people in Chhatrakot Rural Municipality are Brahmin - Hill (8,196), Magar (6,219), Chhetri (1,714), Kami (1,602) and Sarki (1,424) with total population of 19,155, which forms 89.17 percent out of total population of 21,481 in Chhatrakot Rural Municipality.Population by Disability
Similarly, there were 91 people who were blind and 63 people were deaf, while 10 people were both blind and deaf. Moreover, 90 persons had reported of having speech problems. Total 49 people had multiple disabilities.
The pie-chart above illustrate the better picture of disabled population along with genderwise ratios.
Household Foundation
With respect to wall of the houses, 4,857 houses were mud bonded, 294 houses were cement bonded, 22 houses were wood planks bonded, 127 houses were bamboo bonded and 0 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 820 houses were reported of having thatch roofs while 3,937 houses had galvanized roofs. Similarly, 438 houses had roof of tile, 95 houses had RCC roofs, 2 houses had roof of woods while 3 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, 1,039 out of 5,315 houses didn't report of having a private toilet for their households. Nevertheless, 2,798 houses were reported of having flush toilet while 1,468 houses reported having ordinary toilets.
Utilities
With reference to source of fuel, 5,150 households reported their source of fuel as firewood while 6 households had kerosene as their fuel source. The LP gas was used by 125 households as a source of fuel. Moreover, other sources of fuel were cow dung (0), bio-gas (21), fuel electricity (0), etc.
Same as, total 4,865 households had reported of having electricity as the source of their household's lighting. The households still using kerosene as source of light were 426, while 3 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 0.92.
Facilities
Economic Census
According to 2018 Economic Census, there are total 656 establishments in Chhatrakot Rural Municipality that are involved in various economic activities. In those establishments, total 1,544 persons are engaged for the economic activities, as a self-employed or an employee, with total male engagement of 897 and female engagement of 647 persons.In every business, there were an average of 2.35 people engaged with average males are 1.37 and females are 0.99. The ratio of male to female engagement in the establishments are 1.39, which means as many as 1.39 males are enagement in the economic activities per female.
Similarly, the engagement of males were 58.10 percent while the females are 41.90 percent.
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