Khandbari Municipality Profile | Facts & Statistics

Khandbari is a Municipality, which is located in Sankhuwasabha district, Province No. 1 of Nepal. Khandbari has total 11 wards, which are scattered across 123 square kilometers of geographical area. According to 2011 Census conducted by Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Khandbari Municipality had total population of 31,177.

As of 2011, 2,401 population in Khandbari Municipality were absent from their households, which equals to 7.70 percent of the total population. Absence of males was 2,178, which equals to 14.81 percent of total 14,710 males. Same as, 223 females were absent, which equals to 1.35 percent of 16,467 females. At least one member of 1,857 (24.94 percent) households were absent.

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As illustrated in the charts, the ratio of absentee population was 11.99, while male to female absentee population ratio was 9.77. Same as, the household ratio of present vs. absent population was 3.01.

In terms of age, the largest population in Khandbari Municipality were between 10 and 14 years of age with total 3,906. Gender wise, there were 1,985 males and 1,921 females of the same age group. The least populated age group was between 70 and 74 with total 497 population, which consistes of 233 males and 264 females. Top 5 most populated age groups were between 10 and 14 (3,906), between 5 and 9 (3,772), between 15 and 19 (3,463), below 4 (2,758), between 20 and 24 (2,689) with total population of 16,588. In contrast, bottom 5 least populated age groups were between 70 and 74 (497), between 65 and 69 (706), above 75 (820), between 60 and 64 (953), and between 55 and 59 (1,146) with total population of 4,122. The median age-group of total population falls between 35 and 39 and between 40 and 44 with average population of 1,677.

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Gender wise, top 5 most age groups male population were between 10 and 14 (1,985), between 5 and 9 (1,927), between 15 and 19 (1,718), below 4 (1,420), and between 20 and 24 (1,014), with total population of 8,064. In contrast, bottom 5 least age group male population were between 70 and 74 (233), between 65 and 69 (327), above 75 (370),between 60 and 64 (473), and between 55 and 59 (552), with total population of 1,955. With regards to female population, top 5 age groups females were between 10 and 14 (1,921), between 5 and 9 (1,845), between 15 and 19 (1,745), between 20 and 24 (1,675), and between 25 and 29 (1,414), with total population of 8,600. In contrast, bottom 5 least age group male population were between 70 and 74 (264), between 65 and 69 (379), above 75 (450),between 60 and 64 (480), and between 55 and 59 (594), with total population of 2,167.

The population with age-group below 4 had male to female ratio of 1.06, 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 0.61. The age-groups below 4, 5 to 9, 10 to 14 had majority of male population while age-groups 60 to 64, 15 to 19, 45 to 49, 40 to 44, 55 to 59, 70 to 74, 50 to 54, 65 to 69, 30 to 34, above 75, 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 Khandbari 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 Khandbari Municipality as per 2011 population census was 0.89 with 47.18% (14,710) of males and 52.82% (16,467) of females.

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There were 60.04 % (18,718 ) of independent population, the working age people between ages of 15 and 64 years. The dependent children, ages below 15 years, were 33.47 % with total number of 10,436. The dependent elderly population, aged 65 and above were 6.49 % with total number of 2,023. As such, total dependent population including children and elderly people were 39.96 with total number of 12,459

There were 8,371 women of child-bearing age-group of 15 to 49 years. Same as, the todlers or children of 4 years or below were 2,758. The ratio of woman of child-bearing age and the number of todlers state that, approximately 329 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 1,856 in Khandbari Municipality with 902 (48.60%) of males and 954 (51.40%) females. There were total 62 schools. In average, 30 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 Khandbari is Nepali, which is spoken by 21,411 people. The Khandbari has people who speak other languages, such as Lohorung, Tamang, Sherpa, Rai, Kulung, Magar, Newar, Gurung, Yamphu/Yamphe, Thulung, Koyee, Khaling, Limbu, Maithili, Chamling, Bantawa, Mewahang, Nachhiring, Kumal, Bhujel, Yakkha, Majhi, Dumi, Sampang, Bahing, Tharu, Bote, Lhomi, Bhojpuri, etc.

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Out of total population, 11,419 female speaks Nepali language, while 9,992 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), Khandbari Municipality was inhabitted by mostly the people of Chhetri caste with total population of 6,047. There were as little as Sunuwar caste with population of as little as 14 in total. People of several other castes who live in Khandbari are Rai, Newar, Brahmin - Hill, Gurung, Kami, Tamang, Magar, Sherpa, Damai/Dholi, Kumal, Sarki, Kulung, Limbu, Bhote, Sanyasi/Dashnami, Gharti/Bhujel, Loharung, Majhi, Yakkha, Undefined Others, Thakuri, Yamphu, Marwadi, Tharu, Khaling, Chamling, Bote, Ghale, Mewahang Bala, Pattharkatta/Kushwadiya, Samgpang, Muslim, Hajam/Thakur, Lhomi, Khawas, Yadav, Badi, Sunuwar, 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 Khandbari Municipality are Chhetri (6,047), Rai (5,669), Newar (2,838), Brahmin - Hill (2,468) and Gurung (2,350) with total population of 19,372, which forms 62.14 percent out of total population of 31,177 in Khandbari Municipality.

Out of total population of 31,177, there were total 682 (2.19%) disabled persons in Khandbari Municipality with 383 (56.16%) males and 299 (43.84%) females. The physically disabled persons were 241, while mentally disabled people were 41 and intellectually disabled were 14.

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Similarly, there were 107 people who were blind and 114 people were deaf, while 16 people were both blind and deaf. Moreover, 77 persons had reported of having speech problems. Total 72 people had multiple disabilities.

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

Out of total 7446 households in Khandbari Municipality, there were 5,224 houses that were founded on mud bonded while 218 houses were cement bonded. Same as, 45 households were reported of being founded on RCC piller, 1,795houses were founded on wood.

With respect to wall of the houses, 4,977 houses were mud bonded, 283 houses were cement bonded, 139 houses were wood planks bonded, 1,914 houses were bamboo bonded and 38 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 4,065 houses were reported of having thatch roofs while 3,111 houses had galvanized roofs. Similarly, 54 houses had roof of tile, 107 houses had RCC roofs, 9 houses had roof of woods while 1 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, 899 out of 7,446 houses didn't report of having a private toilet for their households. Nevertheless, 1,998 houses were reported of having flush toilet while 4,489 houses reported having ordinary toilets.

In Khandbari Municipality, there were total 3,997 houses, which were equiped with piped tap water resources while 1 houses were reported of having tubewell water facilities. Same as, 73 houses had covered well while 582 houses didn't have any cover on their tubewell. Other resources of water facilities were spout water (2675) and river stream (56), which were reported of the household's source of water.

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With reference to source of fuel, 6,245 households reported their source of fuel as firewood while 81 households had kerosene as their fuel source. The LP gas was used by 1,015 households as a source of fuel. Moreover, other sources of fuel were cow dung (0), bio-gas (18), fuel electricity (21), etc.

Same as, total 5,740 households had reported of having electricity as the source of their household's lighting. The households still using kerosene as source of light were 1,284, while 313 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 7,446 households in Khandbari Municipality, 870 houses reported of having no any facility in their household while 6,405 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.MobilePhone was used by the maximum households with total users of 5,151, while Radio was the next mostly used facilities with total household users of 4,658.

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According to 2018 Economic Census, there are total 1,913 establishments in Khandbari Municipality that are involved in various economic activities. In those establishments, total 6,597 persons are engaged for the economic activities, as a self-employed or an employee, with total male engagement of 4,065 and female engagement of 2,532 persons.In every business, there were an average of 3.45 people engaged with average males are 2.12 and females are 1.32. The ratio of male to female engagement in the establishments are 1.61, which means as many as 1.61 males are enagement in the economic activities per female.

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Similarly, the engagement of males were 61.62 percent while the females are 38.38 percent.

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