Suryodaya Municipality Profile | Facts & Statistics

Suryodaya is a Municipality, which is located in Ilam district, Province No. 1 of Nepal. Suryodaya has total 14 wards, which are scattered across 253 square kilometers of geographical area. According to 2011 Census conducted by Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Suryodaya Municipality had total population of 56,691.

As of 2011, 3,373 population in Suryodaya Municipality were absent from their households, which equals to 5.95 percent of the total population. Absence of males was 2,783, which equals to 9.99 percent of total 27,867 males. Same as, 590 females were absent, which equals to 2.05 percent of 28,840 females. At least one member of 2,579 (19.52 percent) households were absent.

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As illustrated in the charts, the ratio of absentee population was 15.81, while male to female absentee population ratio was 4.72. Same as, the household ratio of present vs. absent population was 4.12.

In terms of age, the largest population in Suryodaya Municipality were between 10 and 14 years of age with total 6,349. However, gender wise largest population age group differs from the total population, such as largest male population falls between 10 and 14 with total 3,155 while female population falls between 15 and 19 with total 3,264 population. The least populated age group was between 70 and 74 with total 909 population, which consistes of 503 males and 406 females. Top 5 most populated age groups were between 10 and 14 (6,349), between 15 and 19 (6,313), between 5 and 9 (5,331), between 20 and 24 (5,245), between 25 and 29 (4,900) with total population of 28,138. In contrast, bottom 5 least populated age groups were between 70 and 74 (909), above 75 (1,136), between 65 and 69 (1,260), between 60 and 64 (1,686), and between 55 and 59 (2,225) with total population of 7,216. The median age-group of total population falls between 40 and 44 and below 4 with average population of 3,458.

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Gender wise, top 5 most age groups male population were between 10 and 14 (3,155), between 15 and 19 (3,049), between 5 and 9 (2,692), between 20 and 24 (2,315), and between 25 and 29 (2,132), with total population of 13,343. In contrast, bottom 5 least age group male population were between 70 and 74 (503), above 75 (667), between 65 and 69 (703),between 60 and 64 (916), and between 55 and 59 (1,191), with total population of 3,980. With regards to female population, top 5 age groups females were between 15 and 19 (3,264), between 10 and 14 (3,194), between 20 and 24 (2,930), between 25 and 29 (2,768), and between 5 and 9 (2,639), with total population of 14,795. In contrast, bottom 5 least age group male population were between 70 and 74 (406), above 75 (469), between 65 and 69 (557),between 60 and 64 (770), and between 55 and 59 (1,034), with total population of 3,236.

The population with age-group above 75 had male to female ratio of 1.42, which states that this age group had maximum males as compared to females. Similarly, age-group 25 to 29 had most female population as compared to male population with male to female ratio of 0.77. The age-groups above 75, 65 to 69, 70 to 74, 60 to 64, 55 to 59, 50 to 54, below 4, 45 to 49, 5 to 9, 40 to 44 had majority of male population while age-groups 10 to 14, 15 to 19, 35 to 39, 30 to 34, 20 to 24, 25 to 29 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 Suryodaya 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 Suryodaya Municipality as per 2011 population census was 0.97 with 49.16% (27,867) of males and 50.87% (28,840) of females.

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There were 67.65 % (38,349 ) of independent population, the working age people between ages of 15 and 64 years. The dependent children, ages below 15 years, were 26.55 % with total number of 15,053. The dependent elderly population, aged 65 and above were 5.83 % with total number of 3,305. As such, total dependent population including children and elderly people were 32.38 with total number of 18,358

There were 16,745 women of child-bearing age-group of 15 to 49 years. Same as, the todlers or children of 4 years or below were 3,373. The ratio of woman of child-bearing age and the number of todlers state that, approximately 201 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 13,634 in Suryodaya Municipality with 6,218 (45.61%) of males and 7,416 (54.39%) females. There were total 95 schools. In average, 144 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 Suryodaya is Nepali, which is spoken by 27,381 people. The Suryodaya has people who speak other languages, such as Tamang, Rai, Bantawa, Limbu, Newar, Lapcha, Magar, Sherpa, Chamling, Gurung, Yamphu/Yamphe, Sunuwar, Bote, Mewahang, Maithili, Sampang, Hyolmo/Yholmo, Kulung, Thami, Yakkha, Rajsthani, Sanskrit, Bhujel, Thulung, Hindi, Bhojpuri, Sam, Byansi, Wambule, Khaling, Urdu, Khash, Sign Language, Rajbanshi, Tharu, Nachhiring, Lohorung, Tajpuriya, Koyee, etc.

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Out of total population, 14,128 female speaks Nepali language, while 13,253 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), Suryodaya Municipality was inhabitted by mostly the people of Rai caste with total population of 14,912. There were as little as Chepang/Praja caste with population of as little as 11 in total. People of several other castes who live in Suryodaya are Brahmin - Hill, Chhetri, Tamang, Newar, Limbu, Magar, Lepcha, Gurung, Kami, Sherpa, Hyolmo, Sunuwar, Damai/Dholi, Sanyasi/Dashnami, Gharti/Bhujel, Thami, Yakkha, Undefined Others, Sarki, Marwadi, Bhote, Bantaba, Haluwai, Thakuri, Teli, Kulung, Muslim, Yamphu, Hajam/Thakur, Kewat, Kathbaniyan, Terai Others, Rajbansi, Tharu, Bangali, Khawas, Punjabi/Shikh, Ghale, Kayastha, Yadav, Chamling, Satar/Santhal, Mewahang Bala, Halkhor, Tajpuriya, Thakali, Koiri/Kushwaha, Chepang/Praja, Pattharkatta/Kushwadiya, 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 Suryodaya Municipality are Rai (14,912), Brahmin - Hill (8,624), Chhetri (7,699), Tamang (6,938) and Newar (2,990) with total population of 41,163, which forms 72.61 percent out of total population of 56,691 in Suryodaya Municipality.

Out of total population of 56,707, there were total 1,137 (2.01%) disabled persons in Suryodaya Municipality with 601 (52.86%) males and 536 (47.14%) females. The physically disabled persons were 374, while mentally disabled people were 82 and intellectually disabled were 37.

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Similarly, there were 154 people who were blind and 255 people were deaf, while 17 people were both blind and deaf. Moreover, 126 persons had reported of having speech problems. Total 92 people had multiple disabilities.

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

Out of total 13211 households in Suryodaya Municipality, there were 9,142 houses that were founded on mud bonded while 1,658 houses were cement bonded. Same as, 463 households were reported of being founded on RCC piller, 1,505houses were founded on wood.

With respect to wall of the houses, 6,333 houses were mud bonded, 2,445 houses were cement bonded, 2,762 houses were wood planks bonded, 1,156 houses were bamboo bonded and 7 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 526 houses were reported of having thatch roofs while 11,693 houses had galvanized roofs. Similarly, 92 houses had roof of tile, 692 houses had RCC roofs, 58 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, 428 out of 13,211 houses didn't report of having a private toilet for their households. Nevertheless, 6,031 houses were reported of having flush toilet while 6,699 houses reported having ordinary toilets.

In Suryodaya Municipality, there were total 11,572 houses, which were equiped with piped tap water resources while 18 houses were reported of having tubewell water facilities. Same as, 102 houses had covered well while 628 houses didn't have any cover on their tubewell. Other resources of water facilities were spout water (679) and river stream (43), which were reported of the household's source of water.

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With reference to source of fuel, 11,392 households reported their source of fuel as firewood while 72 households had kerosene as their fuel source. The LP gas was used by 1,152 households as a source of fuel. Moreover, other sources of fuel were cow dung (16), bio-gas (514), fuel electricity (5), etc.

Same as, total 11,045 households had reported of having electricity as the source of their household's lighting. The households still using kerosene as source of light were 1,899, while 96 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 0.84.

out of 13,211 households in Suryodaya Municipality, 989 houses reported of having no any facility in their household while 12,096 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 9,705, while Radio was the next mostly used facilities with total household users of 9,043.

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According to 2018 Economic Census, there are total 2,239 establishments in Suryodaya Municipality that are involved in various economic activities. In those establishments, total 6,560 persons are engaged for the economic activities, as a self-employed or an employee, with total male engagement of 3,655 and female engagement of 2,905 persons.In every business, there were an average of 2.93 people engaged with average males are 1.63 and females are 1.30. The ratio of male to female engagement in the establishments are 1.26, which means as many as 1.26 males are enagement in the economic activities per female.

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Similarly, the engagement of males were 55.72 percent while the females are 44.28 percent.

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