The 2011 Census data
released by Office of Registrar General of India just recently has been further
analyzed in order to get Characteristic of Indian Village. There are about O.6 million villages in India
and these house over 833 million people i.e. the average size or occupants per
village comes out to be about 1400. The
other characteristics are:
Ø The
villages with population of less than 200 are about 82 thousand (14% of total
number) and the average population is only 100 and these house not even one
percent of total rural population.
Ø The
villages with population between 200 and 500 are about 115 thousand (19% of
total number) and the average population is only 346 and these house not even
five percent of total rural population.
Ø The villages with population between 500 and 1000
are about 142 thousand (24% of total number) and the average population is only
729 and these house over twelve percent of total rural population.
Ø The villages with population between 1000 and 2000
are about 139 thousand (23% of total number) and the average population is only
1419 and these house about twenty four percent of total rural population.
Ø The
villages with population between 2000 and 5000 are about 96 thousand (16% of
total number) and the average population is only 2995 and these house about
thirty five percent of total rural population.
Ø The
villages with population between 5000 and 10000 are about 18.6 thousand (3% of
total number) and the average population is only 6642 and these house about
fifteen percent of total rural population.
Ø The
villages with population over 10000 are only 4682 (0.8% of total number) and
the average population is 15456 and these house about 8.7 percent of total
rural population. The bigger villages
lie mostly in Bihar (1129), Kerala (797), Uttar Pradesh (545), Andhra Pradesh
(482) and West Bengal (417).
India is having variety of
villages both small and big ones. The
following table gives state wise averages of smallest class of up to 200
populations, of biggest class of over 10000 populations and overall average
size are as below:
|
STATE
|
Average for Below 200 Population
Class
|
Average for Above 10000 Population
Class
|
Average Size of Villages
|
|
JAMMU & KASHMIR
|
108
|
13982
|
1437
|
|
HIMACHAL PRADESH
|
96
|
12384
|
345
|
|
PUNJAB
|
96
|
12464
|
1425
|
|
CHANDIGARH
|
0
|
0
|
5798
|
|
UTTARAKHAND
|
92
|
17946
|
447
|
|
HARYANA
|
97
|
13248
|
2486
|
|
NCT OF DELHI
|
121
|
23601
|
4068
|
|
RAJASTHAN
|
98
|
13280
|
1190
|
|
UTTAR PRADESH
|
90
|
13401
|
1588
|
|
BIHAR
|
103
|
15075
|
2363
|
|
SIKKIM
|
60
|
0
|
1075
|
|
ARUNACHAL PRADESH
|
83
|
0
|
203
|
|
NAGALAND
|
127
|
11116
|
1005
|
|
MANIPUR
|
124
|
12028
|
730
|
|
MIZORAM
|
123
|
0
|
746
|
|
TRIPURA
|
125
|
13236
|
3143
|
|
MEGHALAYA
|
115
|
0
|
367
|
|
ASSAM
|
108
|
16707
|
1057
|
|
WEST BENGAL
|
107
|
14778
|
1659
|
|
JHARKHAND
|
105
|
13883
|
850
|
|
ODISHA
|
102
|
12740
|
733
|
|
CHHATTISGARH
|
115
|
11520
|
1002
|
|
MADHYA PRADESH
|
101
|
12321
|
1012
|
|
GUJARAT
|
109
|
13044
|
1944
|
|
DAMAN & DIU
|
0
|
0
|
3179
|
|
DADRA & NAGAR HAVELI
|
115
|
15655
|
2817
|
|
MAHARASHTRA
|
104
|
15466
|
1503
|
|
ANDHRA PRADESH
|
104
|
15461
|
2144
|
|
KARNATAKA
|
94
|
13622
|
1368
|
|
GOA
|
101
|
14041
|
1724
|
|
LAKSHADWEEP
|
28
|
0
|
2357
|
|
KERALA
|
73
|
20214
|
17179
|
|
TAMIL NADU
|
102
|
13395
|
2474
|
|
PUDUCHERRY
|
0
|
10745
|
4391
|
|
ANDAMAN & NICOBAR
ISLANDS
|
67
|
0
|
599
|
|
INDIA
|
100
|
15456
|
1395
|
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