Kirtipur Municipality Profile | Facts & Statistics

Kirtipur is a Municipality, which is located in Kathmandu district, Province No. 3 of Nepal. Kirtipur has total 10 wards, which are scattered across 15 square kilometers of geographical area. According to 2011 Census conducted by Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Kirtipur Municipality had total population of 65,602.

As of 2011, 2,536 population in Kirtipur Municipality were absent from their households, which equals to 3.87 percent of the total population. Absence of males was 1,906, which equals to 5.23 percent of total 36,476 males. Same as, 630 females were absent, which equals to 2.16 percent of 29,126 females. At least one member of 1,843 (9.48 percent) households were absent.

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As illustrated in the charts, the ratio of absentee population was 24.87, while male to female absentee population ratio was 3.03. Same as, the household ratio of present vs. absent population was 9.55.

In terms of age, the largest population in Kirtipur Municipality were between 20 and 24 years of age with total 10,854. Gender wise, there were 6,576 males and 4,278 females of the same age group. The least populated age group was between 70 and 74 with total 828 population, which consistes of 381 males and 447 females. Top 5 most populated age groups were between 20 and 24 (10,854), between 25 and 29 (9,865), between 15 and 19 (6,932), between 30 and 34 (5,955), between 10 and 14 (4,726) with total population of 38,332. In contrast, bottom 5 least populated age groups were between 70 and 74 (828), between 65 and 69 (1,134), above 75 (1,179), between 60 and 64 (1,457), and between 55 and 59 (1,749) with total population of 6,347. The median age-group of total population falls between 40 and 44 and below 4 with average population of 3,654.

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Gender wise, top 5 most age groups male population were between 20 and 24 (6,576), between 25 and 29 (6,177), between 15 and 19 (4,027), between 30 and 34 (3,259), and between 10 and 14 (2,468), with total population of 22,507. In contrast, bottom 5 least age group male population were between 70 and 74 (381), between 65 and 69 (515), above 75 (523),between 60 and 64 (715), and between 55 and 59 (878), with total population of 3,012. With regards to female population, top 5 age groups females were between 20 and 24 (4,278), between 25 and 29 (3,688), between 15 and 19 (2,905), between 30 and 34 (2,696), and between 10 and 14 (2,258), with total population of 15,825. In contrast, bottom 5 least age group male population were between 70 and 74 (447), between 65 and 69 (619), above 75 (656),between 60 and 64 (742), and between 55 and 59 (871), with total population of 3,335.

The population with age-group 25 to 29 had male to female ratio of 1.67, which states that this age group had maximum males as compared to females. Similarly, age-group above 75 had most female population as compared to male population with male to female ratio of 0.80. The age-groups 25 to 29, 20 to 24, 15 to 19, 30 to 34, below 4, 5 to 9, 40 to 44, 45 to 49, 10 to 14, 50 to 54, 55 to 59 had majority of male population while age-groups 60 to 64, 70 to 74, 65 to 69, above 75 had majority of female population as per male-female ratios. Moreover, age-groups 35 to 39 had eqivalent or almost equal numbers of male and female population with male-female ratios of 1.

The population pyramid for Kirtipur 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 Kirtipur Municipality as per 2011 population census was 1.25 with 55.60% (36,476) of males and 44.40% (29,126) of females.

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There were 76.42 % (50,130 ) of independent population, the working age people between ages of 15 and 64 years. The dependent children, ages below 15 years, were 18.80 % with total number of 12,331. The dependent elderly population, aged 65 and above were 4.79 % with total number of 3,141. As such, total dependent population including children and elderly people were 23.58 with total number of 15,472

There were 18,917 women of child-bearing age-group of 15 to 49 years. Same as, the todlers or children of 4 years or below were 3,481. The ratio of woman of child-bearing age and the number of todlers state that, approximately 184 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 6,089 in Kirtipur Municipality with 3,055 (50.17%) of males and 3,034 (49.83%) females. There were total 37 schools. In average, 165 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 Kirtipur is Nepali, which is spoken by 34,900 people. The Kirtipur has people who speak other languages, such as Newar, Tamang, Maithili, Magar, Doteli, Tharu, Bhojpuri, Rai, Gurung, Limbu, English, Hindi, Avadhi, Sherpa, Chamling, Bantawa, Bajjika, Urdu, Bajhangi, Sampang, Baitadeli, Khash, Rajbanshi, Chepang, Achhami, Kumal, Thami, Sunuwar, etc.

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Out of total population, 14,772 female speaks Nepali language, while 20,128 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), Kirtipur Municipality was inhabitted by mostly the people of Newar caste with total population of 24,441. There were as little as Sonar caste with population of as little as 11 in total. People of several other castes who live in Kirtipur are Brahmin - Hill, Chhetri, Tamang, Magar, Rai, Tharu, Thakuri, Gurung, Yadav, Kami, Limbu, Dalit Others, Damai/Dholi, Sarki, Muslim, Terai Others, Teli, Sanyasi/Dashnami, Gharti/Bhujel, Koiri/Kushwaha, Majhi, Hajam/Thakur, Brahmin - Tarai, Dhanuk, Sherpa, Chepang/Praja, Haluwai, Kayastha, Kurmi, Kalwar, Thakali, Kumal, Gaine, Sudhi, Kathbaniyan, Rajbansi, Danuwar, Sunuwar, Bhote, Marwadi, Rajput, Badi, Chamling, Kanu, Chamar/Harijan/Ram, Kumhar, Foreigner, Mali, Thami, Lohar, Ghale, Sonar, 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 Kirtipur Municipality are Newar (24,441), Brahmin - Hill (15,883), Chhetri (13,370), Tamang (3,419) and Magar (1,936) with total population of 59,049, which forms 90.01 percent out of total population of 65,602 in Kirtipur Municipality.

Out of total population of 65,602, there were total 731 (1.11%) disabled persons in Kirtipur Municipality with 414 (56.63%) males and 317 (43.37%) females. The physically disabled persons were 225, while mentally disabled people were 55 and intellectually disabled were 19.

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Similarly, there were 171 people who were blind and 126 people were deaf, while 10 people were both blind and deaf. Moreover, 87 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.

Out of total 19441 households in Kirtipur Municipality, there were 5,589 houses that were founded on mud bonded while 7,711 houses were cement bonded. Same as, 5,695 households were reported of being founded on RCC piller, 51houses were founded on wood.

With respect to wall of the houses, 3,864 houses were mud bonded, 14,957 houses were cement bonded, 80 houses were wood planks bonded, 169 houses were bamboo bonded and 17 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 185 houses were reported of having thatch roofs while 2,689 houses had galvanized roofs. Similarly, 741 houses had roof of tile, 15,403 houses had RCC roofs, 20 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, 92 out of 19,441 houses didn't report of having a private toilet for their households. Nevertheless, 17,758 houses were reported of having flush toilet while 1,468 houses reported having ordinary toilets.

In Kirtipur Municipality, there were total 14,734 houses, which were equiped with piped tap water resources while 47 houses were reported of having tubewell water facilities. Same as, 382 houses had covered well while 52 houses didn't have any cover on their tubewell. Other resources of water facilities were spout water (754) and river stream (3), which were reported of the household's source of water.

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With reference to source of fuel, 1,383 households reported their source of fuel as firewood while 301 households had kerosene as their fuel source. The LP gas was used by 17,542 households as a source of fuel. Moreover, other sources of fuel were cow dung (15), bio-gas (5), fuel electricity (21), etc.

Same as, total 19,108 households had reported of having electricity as the source of their household's lighting. The households still using kerosene as source of light were 117, while 8 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 0.98.

out of 19,441 households in Kirtipur Municipality, 286 houses reported of having no any facility in their household while 19,077 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 18,097, while Radio was the next mostly used facilities with total household users of 12,911.

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According to 2018 Economic Census, there are total 4,510 establishments in Kirtipur Municipality that are involved in various economic activities. In those establishments, total 15,013 persons are engaged for the economic activities, as a self-employed or an employee, with total male engagement of 8,420 and female engagement of 6,593 persons.In every business, there were an average of 3.33 people engaged with average males are 1.87 and females are 1.46. The ratio of male to female engagement in the establishments are 1.28, which means as many as 1.28 males are enagement in the economic activities per female.

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Similarly, the engagement of males were 56.08 percent while the females are 43.92 percent.

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