Balra Municipality Profile | Facts & Statistics

Balra is a Municipality, which is located in Sarlahi district, Province No. 2 of Nepal. Balra has total 11 wards, which are scattered across 49 square kilometers of geographical area. According to 2011 Census conducted by Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Balra Municipality had total population of 45,194.

As of 2011, 361 population in Balra Municipality were absent from their households, which equals to 0.80 percent of the total population. Absence of males was 324, which equals to 1.37 percent of total 23,647 males. Same as, 37 females were absent, which equals to 0.17 percent of 21,547 females. At least one member of 258 (3.35 percent) households were absent.

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As illustrated in the charts, the ratio of absentee population was 124.19, while male to female absentee population ratio was 8.76. Same as, the household ratio of present vs. absent population was 28.82.

In terms of age, the largest population in Balra Municipality were between 5 and 9 years of age with total 6,356. Gender wise, there were 3,343 males and 3,013 females of the same age group. The least populated age group was above 75 with total 695 population, which consistes of 373 males and 322 females. Top 5 most populated age groups were between 5 and 9 (6,356), between 10 and 14 (5,967), below 4 (5,201), between 15 and 19 (4,113), between 25 and 29 (3,440) with total population of 25,077. In contrast, bottom 5 least populated age groups were above 75 (695), between 70 and 74 (832), between 65 and 69 (1,013), between 60 and 64 (1,278), and between 55 and 59 (1,285) with total population of 5,103. The median age-group of total population falls between 35 and 39 and between 40 and 44 with average population of 2,600.

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Gender wise, top 5 most age groups male population were between 5 and 9 (3,343), between 10 and 14 (3,084), below 4 (2,657), between 15 and 19 (2,333), and between 25 and 29 (1,769), with total population of 13,186. In contrast, bottom 5 least age group male population were above 75 (373), between 70 and 74 (440), between 65 and 69 (519),between 60 and 64 (646), and between 55 and 59 (685), with total population of 2,663. With regards to female population, top 5 age groups females were between 5 and 9 (3,013), between 10 and 14 (2,883), below 4 (2,544), between 15 and 19 (1,780), and between 20 and 24 (1,688), with total population of 11,908. In contrast, bottom 5 least age group male population were above 75 (322), between 70 and 74 (392), between 65 and 69 (494),between 55 and 59 (600), and between 60 and 64 (632), with total population of 2,440.

The population with age-group 15 to 19 had male to female ratio of 1.31, 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 0.94. The age-groups 15 to 19, 50 to 54, 45 to 49, above 75, 55 to 59, 70 to 74, 5 to 9, 35 to 39, 40 to 44, 10 to 14, 25 to 29, 65 to 69, below 4, 20 to 24, 60 to 64 had majority of male population while age-groups 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 Balra 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 Balra Municipality as per 2011 population census was 1.10 with 52.32% (23,647) of males and 47.68% (21,547) of females.

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There were 55.60 % (25,130 ) of independent population, the working age people between ages of 15 and 64 years. The dependent children, ages below 15 years, were 38.78 % with total number of 17,524. The dependent elderly population, aged 65 and above were 5.62 % with total number of 2,540. As such, total dependent population including children and elderly people were 44.40 with total number of 20,064

There were 10,007 women of child-bearing age-group of 15 to 49 years. Same as, the todlers or children of 4 years or below were 5,201. The ratio of woman of child-bearing age and the number of todlers state that, approximately 520 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 13,936 in Balra Municipality with 6,682 (47.95%) of males and 7,254 (52.05%) females. There were total 27 schools. In average, 516 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 Balra is Bajjika, which is spoken by 38,777 people. The Balra has people who speak other languages, such as Bhojpuri, Maithili, Urdu, Nepali, Hindi, Limbu, etc.

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Out of total population, 18,463 female speaks Bajjika language, while 20,314 male speaks Bajjika 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), Balra Municipality was inhabitted by mostly the people of Mallaha caste with total population of 4,687. There were as little as Limbu caste with population of as little as 19 in total. People of several other castes who live in Balra are Koiri/Kushwaha, Brahmin - Tarai, Rajput, Yadav, Dusadh/Pasawan/Pasi, Kurmi, Chamar/Harijan/Ram, Kanu, Muslim, Teli, Dhanuk, Dhobi, Kathbaniyan, Lohar, Kalwar, Nuniya, Kumhar, Kewat, Hajam/Thakur, Terai Others, Brahmin - Hill, Tatma/Tatwa, Sanyasi/Dashnami, Musahar, Marwadi, Undefined Others, Sonar, Sudhi, Dhunia, Kayastha, Mali, Baraee, Kahar, Dom, Chhetri, Haluwai, Limbu, 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 Balra Municipality are Mallaha (4,687), Koiri/Kushwaha (3,965), Brahmin - Tarai (3,891), Rajput (3,763) and Yadav (2,779) with total population of 19,085, which forms 42.23 percent out of total population of 45,194 in Balra Municipality.

Out of total population of 45,194, there were total 439 (0.97%) disabled persons in Balra Municipality with 276 (62.87%) males and 163 (37.13%) females. The physically disabled persons were 157, while mentally disabled people were 19 and intellectually disabled were 24.

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Similarly, there were 109 people who were blind and 59 people were deaf, while 11 people were both blind and deaf. Moreover, 28 persons had reported of having speech problems. Total 32 people had multiple disabilities.

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

Out of total 7693 households in Balra Municipality, there were 246 houses that were founded on mud bonded while 1,355 houses were cement bonded. Same as, 199 households were reported of being founded on RCC piller, 5,493houses were founded on wood.

With respect to wall of the houses, 135 houses were mud bonded, 1,384 houses were cement bonded, 75 houses were wood planks bonded, 5,985 houses were bamboo bonded and 8 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 2,751 houses were reported of having thatch roofs while 50 houses had galvanized roofs. Similarly, 4,009 houses had roof of tile, 736 houses had RCC roofs, 31 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, 5,719 out of 7,693 houses didn't report of having a private toilet for their households. Nevertheless, 643 houses were reported of having flush toilet while 1,248 houses reported having ordinary toilets.

In Balra Municipality, there were total 216 houses, which were equiped with piped tap water resources while 7,219 houses were reported of having tubewell water facilities. Same as, 18 houses had covered well while 111 houses didn't have any cover on their tubewell. Other resources of water facilities were spout water (5) and river stream (0), which were reported of the household's source of water.

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With reference to source of fuel, 2,887 households reported their source of fuel as firewood while 167 households had kerosene as their fuel source. The LP gas was used by 45 households as a source of fuel. Moreover, other sources of fuel were cow dung (4,482), bio-gas (11), fuel electricity (7), etc.

Same as, total 1,840 households had reported of having electricity as the source of their household's lighting. The households still using kerosene as source of light were 5,710, while 41 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 0.24.

out of 7,693 households in Balra Municipality, 2,335 houses reported of having no any facility in their household while 5,248 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 4,139, while MobilePhone was the next mostly used facilities with total household users of 3,032.

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According to 2018 Economic Census, there are total 621 establishments in Balra Municipality that are involved in various economic activities. In those establishments, total 1,291 persons are engaged for the economic activities, as a self-employed or an employee, with total male engagement of 1,052 and female engagement of 239 persons.In every business, there were an average of 2.08 people engaged with average males are 1.69 and females are 0.38. The ratio of male to female engagement in the establishments are 4.40, which means as many as 4.40 males are enagement in the economic activities per female.

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Similarly, the engagement of males were 81.49 percent while the females are 18.51 percent.

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