Wardwise Population and Households
As per 2011 population census, Katahari Rural Municipality had total 39,775 population with 20,199 males and 19,576 females. Out of total wards, ward number 4 had the largest population 7,322, while ward number 5 had least number of population with 7,322.
With respect to number of households, Katahari Rural Municipality had total 8,009 households. The ward number 2 had most households with total 1,465, while ward number 5 had least number of households with total 771 number of households.
As illustrated in the chart, the ratio of male to female population was 1.03, which indicates that Katahari Rural Municipality had -3 percent lower males as compared to the females. Same as, the population to household ratio was 4.97, which means that in average 4.97 family members lived in each household.
Absentee Population
As illustrated in the charts, the ratio of absentee population was 52.46, while male to female absentee population ratio was 8.66. Same as, the household ratio of present vs. absent population was 12.64.
Population by Age Group
Gender wise, top 5 most age groups male population were between 10 and 14 (2,643), between 5 and 9 (2,394), between 15 and 19 (2,268), below 4 (2,048), and between 20 and 24 (1,641), with total population of 10,994. In contrast, bottom 5 least age group male population were above 75 (157), between 70 and 74 (164), between 65 and 69 (317),between 60 and 64 (521), and between 55 and 59 (657), with total population of 1,816. With regards to female population, top 5 age groups females were between 10 and 14 (2,416), between 5 and 9 (2,232), between 15 and 19 (2,051), below 4 (1,939), and between 20 and 24 (1,866), with total population of 10,504. In contrast, bottom 5 least age group male population were between 70 and 74 (171), above 75 (177), between 65 and 69 (274),between 60 and 64 (512), and between 55 and 59 (612), with total population of 1,746.
The population with age-group 65 to 69 had male to female ratio of 1.16, which states that this age group had maximum males as compared to females. Similarly, age-group 20 to 24 had most female population as compared to male population with male to female ratio of 0.88. The age-groups 65 to 69, 50 to 54, 45 to 49, 15 to 19, 10 to 14, 35 to 39, 5 to 9, 55 to 59, below 4, 60 to 64 had majority of male population while age-groups 40 to 44, 70 to 74, 30 to 34, 25 to 29, above 75, 20 to 24 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 Katahari Rural 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.
Population Ratios
There were 62.46 % (24,843 ) of independent population, the working age people between ages of 15 and 64 years. The dependent children, ages below 15 years, were 34.37 % with total number of 13,672. The dependent elderly population, aged 65 and above were 3.17 % with total number of 1,260. As such, total dependent population including children and elderly people were 37.54 with total number of 14,932
There were 10,551 women of child-bearing age-group of 15 to 49 years. Same as, the todlers or children of 4 years or below were 3,987. The ratio of woman of child-bearing age and the number of todlers state that, approximately 378 children were born per 1,000 women. This number is also roughly used as fertility levels when direct measures of births are not available.
Literacy, Education Levels & Schooling
Grade 1-12 Students & Schools
The pie-chart and graphs above further illustrates the students and schools.
Population by Language Spoken
Mostly spoken language in Katahari is Maithili, which is spoken by 17,442 people. The Katahari has people who speak other languages, such as Nepali, Rajbanshi, Tharu, Santhali, Urdu, Uranw/Urau, Angika, Magahi, Hindi, Bhojpuri, Tamang, Rai, Bangla, Khariya, Newar, Bhujel, Rajsthani, Magar, Sunuwar, Limbu, etc.
Out of total population, 8,453 female speaks Maithili language, while 8,989 male speaks Maithili language.Details information about languages spoken by male and female groups of population has been illustrated in the table.Population by Castes
According to 2011 census conducted by Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Katahari Rural Municipality was inhabitted by mostly the people of Bantar/Sardar caste with total population of 7,819. There were as little as Sunuwar caste with population of as little as 16 in total. People of several other castes who live in Katahari are Rajbansi, Muslim, Musahar, Kewat, Tharu, Chhetri, Brahmin - Hill, Gangai, Jhangad/Dhagar, Mallaha, Kathbaniyan, Koiri/Kushwaha, Dusadh/Pasawan/Pasi, Satar/Santhal, Yadav, Munda, Terai Others, Sonar, Marwadi, Dalit Others, Chamar/Harijan/Ram, Newar, Haluwai, Dhanuk, Hajam/Thakur, Teli, Rai, Kami, Badi, Bangali, Magar, Tamang, Dom, Khawas, Rajput, Baraee, Kalwar, Majhi, Undefined Others, Kayastha, Sudhi, Brahmin - Tarai, Rajbhar, Sanyasi/Dashnami, Rajdhob, Tatma/Tatwa, Kurmi, Kumhar, Lohar, Limbu, Thakuri, Gurung, Damai/Dholi, Bin, Sarki, Nuniya, Badhaee, Dhobi, Danuwar, Foreigner, Sarbaria, Gharti/Bhujel, Sunuwar, etc. Only the population of castes with above 1,000 population are illustrated in the table.
Top five castes of people in Katahari Rural Municipality are Bantar/Sardar (7,819), Rajbansi (5,377), Muslim (2,820), Musahar (2,142) and Kewat (2,005) with total population of 20,163, which forms 50.69 percent out of total population of 39,775 in Katahari Rural Municipality.Population by Disability
Similarly, there were 91 people who were blind and 48 people were deaf, while 5 people were both blind and deaf. Moreover, 71 persons had reported of having speech problems. Total 45 people had multiple disabilities.
The pie-chart above illustrate the better picture of disabled population along with genderwise ratios.
Household Foundation
With respect to wall of the houses, 229 houses were mud bonded, 1,683 houses were cement bonded, 68 houses were wood planks bonded, 5,955 houses were bamboo bonded and 8 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.
There were several types of house roofs reported. Total 2,707 houses were reported of having thatch roofs while 4,587 houses had galvanized roofs. Similarly, 245 houses had roof of tile, 421 houses had RCC roofs, 10 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, 5,779 out of 8,009 houses didn't report of having a private toilet for their households. Nevertheless, 1,264 houses were reported of having flush toilet while 948 houses reported having ordinary toilets.
Utilities
With reference to source of fuel, 2,082 households reported their source of fuel as firewood while 92 households had kerosene as their fuel source. The LP gas was used by 807 households as a source of fuel. Moreover, other sources of fuel were cow dung (4,637), bio-gas (88), fuel electricity (1), etc.
Same as, total 5,037 households had reported of having electricity as the source of their household's lighting. The households still using kerosene as source of light were 2,782, while 41 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 0.63.
Facilities
Economic Census
According to 2018 Economic Census, there are total 1,012 establishments in Katahari Rural Municipality that are involved in various economic activities. In those establishments, total 6,004 persons are engaged for the economic activities, as a self-employed or an employee, with total male engagement of 4,174 and female engagement of 1,830 persons.In every business, there were an average of 5.93 people engaged with average males are 4.12 and females are 1.81. The ratio of male to female engagement in the establishments are 2.28, which means as many as 2.28 males are enagement in the economic activities per female.
Similarly, the engagement of males were 69.52 percent while the females are 30.48 percent.
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