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Municipality · Kavrepalanchok District

Panchkhal

पाँचखाल नगरपालिका

A municipality in Kavrepalanchok District, Bagmati Province, one of 13 local governments there.NP0324304

Population

35,521

2021

Households

9,133

20213.89 people each

Area

103 km²

345 per km²

Literacy

75.1%

2021154th of 276

Population & Demographics

Population nationally

Population, 2021 census

35,521

National Statistics Office

18,309 women, 17,212 men — 51.5% female. 9.8% of Kavrepalanchok.

Literacy rate, 2021 census

75.1%

Population aged 5 and over

1.1 pp below the national figure · 154th of 276.

84.5% of men, 66.5% of women — a 18.0-point gap.

75.1%

Panchkhal

75.7%

Kavrepalanchok

82.1%

Bagmati

76.2%

Nepal

Panchkhal 75.1%, Kavrepalanchok 75.7%, Bagmati 82.1%, Nepal 76.2%.

Literacy rate, 2021 census. Panchkhal marked in black.

Population aged 5 and over, by literacy status

The census partition behind the rate.

  • Can read and write75.1%
  • Cannot read or write24.6%
  • Can read only0.3%
  • Not stated0.0%

33,189 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 write24,94011,44013,500
Cannot read or write8,1565,7152,441
Can read only924943
Not stated110

In context

All places

Where Panchkhal sits among the 13 local governments of Kavrepalanchok. By population, 2021 census.

Kavrepalanchok by local government
12,201Population · 67,690

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. 5 more in the table below.

View all 13 local governments
Kavrepalanchok by local governments, census
PlaceTypePopulationHouseholdsLiteracy
Banepamunicipality67,69016,69884.8%
Panautimunicipality51,50412,80681.0%
Panchkhalmunicipality35,5219,13375.1%
Dhulikhelmunicipality33,7268,57080.1%
Mandan Deupurmunicipality30,3817,92472.6%
Namobuddhamunicipality26,1607,14871.0%
Roshirural municipality23,7906,07569.5%
Temalrural municipality16,9574,86961.2%
Mahabharatrural municipality16,0793,17470.3%
Bhumlurural municipality15,6784,51867.0%
Bethanchowkrural municipality14,9593,86171.7%
Chauri Deuralirural municipality14,0764,15657.8%
Khanikholarural municipality12,2012,39875.2%

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 →