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Municipality · Kathmandu District

Shankharapur

शंङ्खरापुर नगरपालिका

A municipality in Kathmandu District, Bagmati Province, one of 11 local governments there.NP0327307

Population

29,318

2021

Households

7,140

20214.11 people each

Area

60 km²

487 per km²

Literacy

79.9%

202189th of 276

Population & Demographics

Population nationally

Population, 2021 census

29,318

National Statistics Office

14,885 women, 14,433 men — 50.8% female. 1.4% of Kathmandu.

Literacy rate, 2021 census

79.9%

Population aged 5 and over

3.7 pp above the national figure · 89th of 276.

87.6% of men, 72.6% of women — a 15.0-point gap.

79.9%

Shankharapur

89.2%

Kathmandu

82.1%

Bagmati

76.2%

Nepal

Shankharapur 79.9%, Kathmandu 89.2%, Bagmati 82.1%, Nepal 76.2%.

Literacy rate, 2021 census. Shankharapur marked in black.

Population aged 5 and over, by literacy status

The census partition behind the rate.

  • Can read and write79.9%
  • Cannot read or write20.0%
  • Can read only0.1%
  • Not stated0.0%

27,446 people aged 5 and over. Counts are in the table.

View all 4 categories
Population aged 5 and over by literacy status and sex, 2021
Literacy statusAllFemaleMale
Can read and write21,94310,16211,781
Cannot read or write5,4773,8241,653
Can read only251312
Not stated110

In context

All places

Where Shankharapur sits among the 11 local governments of Kathmandu. By population, 2021 census.

Kathmandu by local government
26,372Population · 862,400

One order throughout, set by population, so a mark out of step ranks differently on that measure. Counts are bars from zero; rates are dots on a trimmed axis, because a rate is not additive and its spread matters more than its distance from nothing. 3 more in the table below.

View all 11 local governments
Kathmandu by local governments, census
PlaceTypePopulationHouseholdsLiteracy
Kathmandumetropolitan city862,400238,96690.5%
Budhanilkhanthamunicipality177,55746,93089.7%
Tarakeshwormunicipality151,47941,36287.8%
Gokarneshwormunicipality149,36639,77185.5%
Chandragirimunicipality136,86035,99487.3%
Tokhamunicipality133,75537,02591.0%
Kageshwori Manaharamunicipality130,43333,76488.4%
Nagarjunmunicipality115,43731,30189.2%
Kirtipurmunicipality81,57824,15088.8%
Shankharapurmunicipality29,3187,14079.9%
Dakshinkalimunicipality26,3726,48980.0%

Sources and coverage

  • Nepal — Subnational Population StatisticsUnited Nations Population Fundcc-by-igo-3.0
  • Nepal — National Population and Housing Census 2021National Statistics Officenso-official-statistics

Measures such as gdp per capita, life expectancy at birth, and under-5 mortality rate are published for Nepal as a whole and are not broken down to this level by their source, so they have no section here. All indicators and their coverage →