Chishankhugadhi Rural Municipality Profile | Facts & Statistics

Chishankhugadhi is a Rural Municipality, which is located in Okhaldhunga district, Province No. 1 of Nepal. Chishankhugadhi has total 8 wards, which are scattered across 127 square kilometers of geographical area. According to 2011 Census conducted by Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Chishankhugadhi Rural Municipality had total population of 15,196.

As of 2011, 855 population in Chishankhugadhi Rural Municipality were absent from their households, which equals to 5.63 percent of the total population. Absence of males was 788, which equals to 11.31 percent of total 6,968 males. Same as, 67 females were absent, which equals to 0.81 percent of 8,228 females. At least one member of 684 (20.52 percent) households were absent.

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As illustrated in the charts, the ratio of absentee population was 16.77, while male to female absentee population ratio was 11.76. Same as, the household ratio of present vs. absent population was 3.87.

In terms of age, the largest population in Chishankhugadhi Rural Municipality were between 10 and 14 years of age with total 2,117. Gender wise, there were 1,012 males and 1,105 females of the same age group. The least populated age group was between 70 and 74 with total 385 population, which consistes of 203 males and 182 females. Top 5 most populated age groups were between 10 and 14 (2,117), between 15 and 19 (1,916), between 5 and 9 (1,826), below 4 (1,445), between 20 and 24 (986) with total population of 8,290. In contrast, bottom 5 least populated age groups were between 70 and 74 (385), between 65 and 69 (485), above 75 (513), between 60 and 64 (540), and between 55 and 59 (586) with total population of 2,509. The median age-group of total population falls between 35 and 39 and between 50 and 54 with average population of 736.

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Gender wise, top 5 most age groups male population were between 10 and 14 (1,012), between 5 and 9 (899), between 15 and 19 (888), below 4 (764), and between 50 and 54 (374), with total population of 3,937. In contrast, bottom 5 least age group male population were between 70 and 74 (203), above 75 (248), between 65 and 69 (253),between 60 and 64 (254), and between 30 and 34 (261), with total population of 1,219. With regards to female population, top 5 age groups females were between 10 and 14 (1,105), between 15 and 19 (1,028), between 5 and 9 (927), below 4 (681), and between 20 and 24 (644), with total population of 4,385. In contrast, bottom 5 least age group male population were between 70 and 74 (182), between 65 and 69 (232), above 75 (265),between 60 and 64 (286), and between 55 and 59 (311), with total population of 1,276.

The population with age-group below 4 had male to female ratio of 1.12, 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 0.53. The age-groups below 4, 70 to 74, 65 to 69, 50 to 54 had majority of male population while age-groups 5 to 9, above 75, 10 to 14, 60 to 64, 55 to 59, 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 Chishankhugadhi 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.

As illustrated in the pie-chart, overall ratio of male to female population in Chishankhugadhi Rural Municipality as per 2011 population census was 0.85 with 45.85% (6,968) of males and 54.15% (8,228) of females.

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There were 55.44 % (8,425 ) of independent population, the working age people between ages of 15 and 64 years. The dependent children, ages below 15 years, were 35.46 % with total number of 5,388. The dependent elderly population, aged 65 and above were 9.10 % with total number of 1,383. As such, total dependent population including children and elderly people were 44.56 with total number of 6,771

There were 3,880 women of child-bearing age-group of 15 to 49 years. Same as, the todlers or children of 4 years or below were 1,445. The ratio of woman of child-bearing age and the number of todlers state that, approximately 372 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 5,953 in Chishankhugadhi Rural Municipality with 2,852 (47.91%) of males and 3,101 (52.09%) females. There were total 45 schools. In average, 132 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 Chishankhugadhi is Nepali, which is spoken by 9,023 people. The Chishankhugadhi has people who speak other languages, such as Magar, Bahing, Sherpa, Tamang, Thulung, Rai, Majhi, Dumi, Maithili, Bhujel, etc.

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Out of total population, 4,887 female speaks Nepali language, while 4,136 male speaks Nepali 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), Chishankhugadhi Rural Municipality was inhabitted by mostly the people of Chhetri caste with total population of 3,139. There were as little as Undefined Others caste with population of as little as 19 in total. People of several other castes who live in Chishankhugadhi are Magar, Brahmin - Hill, Rai, Newar, Kami, Bahing, Sarki, Gharti/Bhujel, Sherpa, Tamang, Damai/Dholi, Bin, Majhi, Thakuri, Thulung, Sanyasi/Dashnami, Undefined Others, 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 Chishankhugadhi Rural Municipality are Chhetri (3,139), Magar (2,995), Brahmin - Hill (1,907), Rai (1,157) and Newar (831) with total population of 10,029, which forms 66.00 percent out of total population of 15,196 in Chishankhugadhi Rural Municipality.

Out of total population of 15,196, there were total 345 (2.27%) disabled persons in Chishankhugadhi Rural Municipality with 213 (61.74%) males and 132 (38.26%) females. The physically disabled persons were 134, while mentally disabled people were 21 and intellectually disabled were 13.

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Similarly, there were 43 people who were blind and 55 people were deaf, while 8 people were both blind and deaf. Moreover, 52 persons had reported of having speech problems. Total 19 people had multiple disabilities.

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

Out of total 3334 households in Chishankhugadhi Rural Municipality, there were 3,270 houses that were founded on mud bonded while 0 houses were cement bonded. Same as, 0 households were reported of being founded on RCC piller, 25houses were founded on wood.

With respect to wall of the houses, 3,265 houses were mud bonded, 1 houses were cement bonded, 3 houses were wood planks bonded, 28 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.

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There were several types of house roofs reported. Total 2,976 houses were reported of having thatch roofs while 183 houses had galvanized roofs. Similarly, 73 houses had roof of tile, 3 houses had RCC roofs, 0 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, 732 out of 3,334 houses didn't report of having a private toilet for their households. Nevertheless, 136 houses were reported of having flush toilet while 2,437 houses reported having ordinary toilets.

In Chishankhugadhi Rural Municipality, there were total 2,709 houses, which were equiped with piped tap water resources while 2 houses were reported of having tubewell water facilities. Same as, 48 houses had covered well while 198 houses didn't have any cover on their tubewell. Other resources of water facilities were spout water (340) and river stream (8), which were reported of the household's source of water.

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With reference to source of fuel, 3,291 households reported their source of fuel as firewood while 7 households had kerosene as their fuel source. The LP gas was used by 0 households as a source of fuel. Moreover, other sources of fuel were cow dung (3), bio-gas (2), fuel electricity (0), etc.

Same as, total 580 households had reported of having electricity as the source of their household's lighting. The households still using kerosene as source of light were 648, while 1,478 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 0.17.

out of 3,334 households in Chishankhugadhi Rural Municipality, 616 houses reported of having no any facility in their household while 2,605 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.Radio was used by the maximum households with total users of 2,454, while MobilePhone was the next mostly used facilities with total household users of 1,419.

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According to 2018 Economic Census, there are total 327 establishments in Chishankhugadhi Rural Municipality that are involved in various economic activities. In those establishments, total 4,163 persons are engaged for the economic activities, as a self-employed or an employee, with total male engagement of 2,023 and female engagement of 2,140 persons.In every business, there were an average of 12.73 people engaged with average males are 6.19 and females are 6.54. The ratio of male to female engagement in the establishments are 0.95, which means as many as 0.95 males are enagement in the economic activities per female.

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Similarly, the engagement of males were 48.59 percent while the females are 51.41 percent.

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