Kolhabi Municipality Profile | Facts & Statistics

Kolhabi is a Municipality, which is located in Bara district, Province No. 2 of Nepal. Kolhabi has total 11 wards, which are scattered across 157 square kilometers of geographical area. According to 2011 Census conducted by Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Kolhabi Municipality had total population of 43,036.

As of 2011, 1,260 population in Kolhabi Municipality were absent from their households, which equals to 2.93 percent of the total population. Absence of males was 1,196, which equals to 5.61 percent of total 21,305 males. Same as, 64 females were absent, which equals to 0.28 percent of 22,730 females. At least one member of 1,061 (13.08 percent) households were absent.

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As illustrated in the charts, the ratio of absentee population was 33.16, while male to female absentee population ratio was 18.69. Same as, the household ratio of present vs. absent population was 6.64.

In terms of age, the largest population in Kolhabi Municipality were between 10 and 14 years of age with total 5,885. Gender wise, there were 2,934 males and 2,951 females of the same age group. The least populated age group was above 75 with total 540 population, which consistes of 266 males and 274 females. Top 5 most populated age groups were between 10 and 14 (5,885), between 5 and 9 (5,528), between 15 and 19 (4,902), below 4 (4,003), between 20 and 24 (3,606) with total population of 23,924. In contrast, bottom 5 least populated age groups were above 75 (540), between 70 and 74 (589), between 65 and 69 (985), between 60 and 64 (1,234), and between 55 and 59 (1,411) with total population of 4,759. The median age-group of total population falls between 35 and 39 and between 40 and 44 with average population of 2,618.

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Gender wise, top 5 most age groups male population were between 10 and 14 (2,934), between 5 and 9 (2,784), between 15 and 19 (2,311), below 4 (2,030), and between 20 and 24 (1,627), with total population of 11,686. In contrast, bottom 5 least age group male population were above 75 (266), between 70 and 74 (286), between 65 and 69 (482),between 60 and 64 (583), and between 55 and 59 (716), with total population of 2,333. With regards to female population, top 5 age groups females were between 10 and 14 (2,951), between 5 and 9 (2,744), between 15 and 19 (2,591), between 20 and 24 (1,979), and below 4 (1,973), with total population of 12,238. In contrast, bottom 5 least age group male population were above 75 (274), between 70 and 74 (303), between 65 and 69 (503),between 60 and 64 (651), and between 55 and 59 (695), with total population of 2,426.

The population with age-group 45 to 49 had male to female ratio of 1.09, 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 0.80. The age-groups 45 to 49, below 4, 55 to 59, 5 to 9, 50 to 54 had majority of male population while age-groups 10 to 14, above 75, 40 to 44, 65 to 69, 70 to 74, 35 to 39, 60 to 64, 15 to 19, 20 to 24, 25 to 29, 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 Kolhabi 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 Kolhabi Municipality as per 2011 population census was 0.94 with 49.51% (21,305) of males and 52.82% (22,730) of females.

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There were 61.59 % (26,505 ) of independent population, the working age people between ages of 15 and 64 years. The dependent children, ages below 15 years, were 35.82 % with total number of 15,416. The dependent elderly population, aged 65 and above were 4.91 % with total number of 2,114. As such, total dependent population including children and elderly people were 40.73 with total number of 17,530

There were 11,833 women of child-bearing age-group of 15 to 49 years. Same as, the todlers or children of 4 years or below were 4,003. The ratio of woman of child-bearing age and the number of todlers state that, approximately 338 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 27,075 in Kolhabi Municipality with 13,035 (48.14%) of males and 14,040 (51.86%) females. There were total 41 schools. In average, 660 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 Kolhabi is Tharu, which is spoken by 22,355 people. The Kolhabi has people who speak other languages, such as Bhojpuri, Nepali, Maithili, Tamang, Urdu, Newar, Magar, Doteli, etc.

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Out of total population, 11,602 female speaks Tharu language, while 10,753 male speaks Tharu 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), Kolhabi Municipality was inhabitted by mostly the people of Tharu caste with total population of 26,106. There were as little as Baraee caste with population of as little as 12 in total. People of several other castes who live in Kolhabi are Brahmin - Hill, Musahar, Chhetri, Chamar/Harijan/Ram, Tamang, Muslim, Dusadh/Pasawan/Pasi, Teli, Newar, Magar, Mallaha, Kami, Bin, Kalwar, Kanu, Majhi, Nuniya, Hajam/Thakur, Koiri/Kushwaha, Terai Others, Thakuri, Damai/Dholi, Brahmin - Tarai, Sonar, Sanyasi/Dashnami, Yadav, Kathbaniyan, Dhanuk, Mali, Thami, Dalit Others, Gharti/Bhujel, Kurmi, Rai, Dhobi, Kumal, Lohar, Kayastha, Tatma/Tatwa, Rajput, Badhaee, Kumhar, Sunuwar, Undefined Others, Baraee, 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 Kolhabi Municipality are Tharu (26,106), Brahmin - Hill (3,546), Musahar (2,263), Chhetri (2,029) and Chamar/Harijan/Ram (1,568) with total population of 35,512, which forms 82.52 percent out of total population of 43,036 in Kolhabi Municipality.

Out of total population of 44,035, there were total 627 (1.42%) disabled persons in Kolhabi Municipality with 356 (56.78%) males and 271 (43.22%) females. The physically disabled persons were 202, while mentally disabled people were 37 and intellectually disabled were 20.

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Similarly, there were 154 people who were blind and 71 people were deaf, while 11 people were both blind and deaf. Moreover, 89 persons had reported of having speech problems. Total 43 people had multiple disabilities.

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

Out of total 8111 households in Kolhabi Municipality, there were 261 houses that were founded on mud bonded while 1,216 houses were cement bonded. Same as, 1,523 households were reported of being founded on RCC piller, 4,934houses were founded on wood.

With respect to wall of the houses, 182 houses were mud bonded, 1,522 houses were cement bonded, 698 houses were wood planks bonded, 5,553 houses were bamboo bonded and 35 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 284 houses were reported of having thatch roofs while 274 houses had galvanized roofs. Similarly, 6,771 houses had roof of tile, 644 houses had RCC roofs, 35 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, 6,240 out of 8,111 houses didn't report of having a private toilet for their households. Nevertheless, 1,291 houses were reported of having flush toilet while 518 houses reported having ordinary toilets.

In Kolhabi Municipality, there were total 609 houses, which were equiped with piped tap water resources while 7,284 houses were reported of having tubewell water facilities. Same as, 15 houses had covered well while 108 houses didn't have any cover on their tubewell. Other resources of water facilities were spout water (3) and river stream (1), which were reported of the household's source of water.

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With reference to source of fuel, 7,562 households reported their source of fuel as firewood while 33 households had kerosene as their fuel source. The LP gas was used by 108 households as a source of fuel. Moreover, other sources of fuel were cow dung (34), bio-gas (286), fuel electricity (0), etc.

Same as, total 6,599 households had reported of having electricity as the source of their household's lighting. The households still using kerosene as source of light were 1,422, while 24 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 0.81.

out of 8,111 households in Kolhabi Municipality, 728 houses reported of having no any facility in their household while 7,216 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 6,187, while MobilePhone was the next mostly used facilities with total household users of 4,925.

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According to 2018 Economic Census, there are total 703 establishments in Kolhabi Municipality that are involved in various economic activities. In those establishments, total 2,897 persons are engaged for the economic activities, as a self-employed or an employee, with total male engagement of 2,111 and female engagement of 786 persons.In every business, there were an average of 4.12 people engaged with average males are 3.00 and females are 1.12. The ratio of male to female engagement in the establishments are 2.69, which means as many as 2.69 males are enagement in the economic activities per female.

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Similarly, the engagement of males were 72.87 percent while the females are 27.13 percent.

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