Chhayanath Rara Municipality Profile | Facts & Statistics
Chhayanath Rara is a Municipality located in Mugu District of Nepal. It has total 14 wards and 481 square kilometers of geographical area. According to 2011 census, it had total population of 20,078.
Wardwise Population and Households
As per 2011 population census, Chhayanath Rara Municipality had total 20,082 population with 10,247 males and 9,835 females. Out of total wards, ward number 13 had the largest population 2,260, while ward number 9 had least number of population with 2,260.
With respect to number of households, Chhayanath Rara Municipality had total 3,641 households. The ward number 13 had most households with total 416, while ward number 9 had least number of households with total 66 number of households.
As illustrated in the chart, the ratio of male to female population was 1.04, which indicates that Chhayanath Rara Municipality had -4 percent lower males as compared to the females. Same as, the population to household ratio was 5.52, which means that in average 5.52 family members lived in each household.
Absentee Population
As illustrated in the charts, the ratio of absentee population was 98.89, while male to female absentee population ratio was 3.37. Same as, the household ratio of present vs. absent population was 29.09.
Population by Age Group
Gender wise, top 5 most age groups male population were below 4 (1,627), between 5 and 9 (1,416), between 10 and 14 (1,379), between 15 and 19 (1,003), and between 25 and 29 (791), with total population of 6,216. In contrast, bottom 5 least age group male population were between 70 and 74 (68), above 75 (73), between 65 and 69 (148),between 50 and 54 (288), and between 60 and 64 (294), with total population of 871. With regards to female population, top 5 age groups females were below 4 (1,512), between 5 and 9 (1,386), between 10 and 14 (1,313), between 15 and 19 (964), and between 20 and 24 (874), with total population of 6,049. In contrast, bottom 5 least age group male population were above 75 (37), between 70 and 74 (60), between 65 and 69 (161),between 55 and 59 (236), and between 50 and 54 (291), with total population of 785.
The population with age-group above 75 had male to female ratio of 1.97, which states that this age group had maximum males as compared to females. Similarly, age-group 60 to 64 had most female population as compared to male population with male to female ratio of 0.82. The age-groups above 75, 45 to 49, 55 to 59, 40 to 44, 70 to 74, 35 to 39, below 4, 10 to 14, 25 to 29, 15 to 19, 5 to 9 had majority of male population while age-groups 30 to 34, 50 to 54, 65 to 69, 20 to 24, 60 to 64 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 Chhayanath Rara 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 54.30 % (10,902 ) of independent population, the working age people between ages of 15 and 64 years. The dependent children, ages below 15 years, were 43.00 % with total number of 8,633. The dependent elderly population, aged 65 and above were 2.72 % with total number of 547. As such, total dependent population including children and elderly people were 45.72 with total number of 9,180
There were 4,479 women of child-bearing age-group of 15 to 49 years. Same as, the todlers or children of 4 years or below were 3,139. The ratio of woman of child-bearing age and the number of todlers state that, approximately 701 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 Chhayanath Rara is Nepali, which is spoken by 19,989 people. The Chhayanath Rara has people who speak other languages, such as Sherpa, Tamang, etc.
Out of total population, 9,792 female speaks Nepali language, while 10,197 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), Chhayanath Rara Municipality was inhabitted by mostly the people of Chhetri caste with total population of 12,075. There were as little as Tharu caste with population of as little as 12 in total. People of several other castes who live in Chhayanath Rara are Kami, Thakuri, Damai/Dholi, Dalit Others, Brahmin - Hill, Newar, Sarki, Bhote, Tamang, Kumal, Terai Others, Badi, Mallaha, Tharu, etc. Only the population of castes with above 1,000 population are illustrated in the table.
Top five castes of people in Chhayanath Rara Municipality are Chhetri (12,075), Kami (3,208), Thakuri (2,408), Damai/Dholi (1,085) and Dalit Others (531) with total population of 19,307, which forms 96.16 percent out of total population of 20,078 in Chhayanath Rara Municipality.Population by Disability
Similarly, there were 97 people who were blind and 216 people were deaf, while 19 people were both blind and deaf. Moreover, 66 persons had reported of having speech problems. Total 38 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, 3,463 houses were mud bonded, 93 houses were cement bonded, 30 houses were wood planks bonded, 1 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 46 houses were reported of having thatch roofs while 287 houses had galvanized roofs. Similarly, 49 houses had roof of tile, 9 houses had RCC roofs, 87 houses had roof of woods while 3,029 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, 1,098 out of 3,641 houses didn't report of having a private toilet for their households. Nevertheless, 137 houses were reported of having flush toilet while 2,373 houses reported having ordinary toilets.
Utilities
With reference to source of fuel, 3,598 households reported their source of fuel as firewood while 2 households had kerosene as their fuel source. The LP gas was used by 3 households as a source of fuel. Moreover, other sources of fuel were cow dung (0), bio-gas (5), fuel electricity (0), etc.
Same as, total 420 households had reported of having electricity as the source of their household's lighting. The households still using kerosene as source of light were 9, while 1,889 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 0.12.
Facilities
Economic Census
According to 2018 Economic Census, there are total 849 establishments in Chhayanath Rara Municipality that are involved in various economic activities. In those establishments, total 2,725 persons are engaged for the economic activities, as a self-employed or an employee, with total male engagement of 1,372 and female engagement of 1,353 persons.In every business, there were an average of 3.21 people engaged with average males are 1.62 and females are 1.59. The ratio of male to female engagement in the establishments are 1.01, which means as many as 1.01 males are enagement in the economic activities per female.
Similarly, the engagement of males were 50.35 percent while the females are 49.65 percent.
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