Avg household size

Total population divided by number of households. Rural districts run 5.5+; metro cores run ~4.0. Proxies for urbanisation, joint-family prevalence, and youth dependency.

595 districts with this metric set.

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Rank	District	State	Metric (people)	Population
#101	Tamenglong	Manipur	5.62	1,40,651
#102	Jalore	Rajasthan	5.61	18,28,730
#103	Hardoi	Uttar Pradesh	5.6	40,92,845
#104	Pilibhit	Uttar Pradesh	5.6	20,31,007
#105	Dausa	Rajasthan	5.59	16,34,409
#106	Haridwar	Uttarakhand	5.59	18,90,422
#107	Sitapur	Uttar Pradesh	5.59	44,83,992
#108	Sonbhadra	Uttar Pradesh	5.59	18,62,559
#109	Churachandpur	Manipur	5.58	2,74,143
#110	Fatehpur	Uttar Pradesh	5.58	26,32,733
#111	Vaishali	Bihar	5.58	34,95,021
#112	Banaskantha (Palanpur)	Gujarat	5.57	31,20,506
#113	Auraiya	Uttar Pradesh	5.56	13,79,545
#114	Jhunjhunu	Rajasthan	5.56	21,37,045
#115	Karauli	Rajasthan	5.56	14,58,248
#116	West Champaran	Bihar	5.54	39,35,042
#117	Mahoba	Uttar Pradesh	5.53	8,75,958
#118	North East Delhi	Delhi	5.52	22,41,624
#119	Ri Bhoi	Meghalaya	5.52	2,58,840
#120	Ghaziabad	Uttar Pradesh	5.5	46,81,645
#121	Lalitpur	Uttar Pradesh	5.5	12,21,592
#122	RaeBareli	Uttar Pradesh	5.5	34,05,559
#123	Tarn Taran	Punjab	5.5	11,19,627
#124	East Garo Hills	Meghalaya	5.45	3,17,917
#125	Kanpur Dehat	Uttar Pradesh	5.45	17,96,184
#126	Latehar	Jharkhand	5.45	7,26,978
#127	Lower Subansiri	Arunachal Pradesh	5.44	83,030
#128	Jhansi	Uttar Pradesh	5.43	19,98,603
#129	Tirap	Arunachal Pradesh	5.43	1,11,975
#130	East Kameng	Arunachal Pradesh	5.42	78,690
#131	Gumla	Jharkhand	5.42	10,25,213
#132	Morena	Madhya Pradesh	5.42	19,65,970
#133	Palamu	Jharkhand	5.41	19,39,869
#134	Lakhimpur - Kheri	Uttar Pradesh	5.4	40,21,243
#135	Hamirpur	Uttar Pradesh	5.39	11,04,285
#136	Bhagalpur	Bihar	5.38	30,37,766
#137	Karbi Anglong	Assam	5.38	9,56,313
#138	Mahendragarh	Haryana	5.37	9,22,088
#139	Bhavnagar	Gujarat	5.35	28,80,365
#140	Panchmahal (Godhra)	Gujarat	5.35	23,90,776
#141	Tuensang	Nagaland	5.35	1,96,596
#142	Jind	Haryana	5.34	13,34,152
#143	Udham Singh Nagar	Uttarakhand	5.34	16,48,902
#144	Banka	Bihar	5.33	20,34,763
#145	Lucknow	Uttar Pradesh	5.33	45,89,838
#146	Tonk	Rajasthan	5.33	14,21,326
#147	Vijayapura (Bijapur)	Karnataka	5.33	21,77,331
#148	Bidar	Karnataka	5.32	17,03,300
#149	Kanpur Nagar	Uttar Pradesh	5.31	45,81,268
#150	Raichur	Karnataka	5.3	19,28,812