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Town including outgrowths · Census 2011 · code 802008
Bhilai Nagar population. Households, literacy and work.
A detailed town profile in Chhattisgarh, using the original Primary Census Abstract. Every figure on this page belongs to the source’s 2011 population and geography.
Historical geographic unit. Census 2011 town boundary and classification. The primary total includes the outgrowths (OG) explicitly included in the source name; it is not a municipal-core-only count. The town total is our sum of 2 separately published geographic parts, all sharing this Census town code. This is not a present-day population or an urban-agglomeration total.
The source records 135,569 households and 627,734 residents. These household and person counts are separate measures.
Children aged 0–6 accounted for 11.07% of residents. This historical age group helps describe the age structure in 2011; it does not measure today’s children.
Male literacy was 92.21% and female literacy was 80.69%, each calculated among the corresponding population aged 7 and above.
Of 205,520 Census workers, 95.37% were main workers. Census work includes more than salaried employment.
What kinds of work were recorded?
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Economic activity
Main workers
Marginal workers
Cultivators
664
333
Agricultural labourers
1,099
545
Household industry workers
4,229
334
Other workers
190,012
8,304
Cultivators, agricultural labourers, household industry workers and other workers are separate Census activity categories. A worker count is not a count of employees on a company payroll.
Using the profile in research
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Definitions, calculation methods and source access
Literacy uses people aged 7 and above; work participation uses all residents. Main workers worked at least six months. Households are the PCA household count, not houses. Rates with zero denominators are unavailable. Names and boundaries belong to Census 2011.
The main profile combines the selected, non-overlapping components. A municipal-core row and its wider row including outgrowths are not added together.
Town proper, excluding outgrowths
The source also supplies a narrower town-proper record. It contains 625,700 people. This component is already inside the wider total and must not be added again.
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Indicator · Census 2011
Total
Males
Females
Populationpeople
625,700
322,309
303,391
Children aged 0–6people aged 0–6
69,237
36,025
33,212
Literate populationliterate people aged 7+
482,080
264,011
218,069
Literacy rate% of the corresponding population aged 7+
86.63%
92.22%
80.71%
Scheduled Castes populationpeople
88,330
44,709
43,621
Scheduled Tribes populationpeople
31,329
16,042
15,287
Total workersCensus workers
204,603
168,042
36,561
Work participation rate% of the corresponding total population