Indian states ranking by household size

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This is a list of the States of India ranked in order of average number of persons in a family. This information was compiled from NFHS-3. National Family health survey (NFHS) is a large-scale, multi round survey conducted by the International Institute of Population Sciences (IIPS), Mumbai designated by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MOHFW), Government of India. NFHS-3 was released on 11 Oct 2007 and the detailed survey can be viewed in the following website [1] The average household size of India is 4.8. The lowest is 3.5 in Tamil Nadu and the highest is 5.7 in Uttar Pradesh. India has more than 32 crore households (2022).

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List

RankStateHousehold

size (persons)

1 Tamil Nadu 3.5
2 Andhra Pradesh 3.9
3 Goa 4.2
4 Kerala 4.3
5 Tripura 4.3
6 West Bengal 4.5
7 Odisha 4.5
8 Sikkim 4.5
9 Nagaland 4.5
10 Himachal Pradesh 4.6
11 Karnataka 4.6
12 Assam 4.7
13 Gujarat 4.7
14 Maharashtra 4.7
15 Arunachal Pradesh 4.8
16 Mizoram 4.8
17 India average4.8
18 Chhattisgarh NA
19 Madhya Pradesh 5
20 Uttarakhand 5
21 Manipur 5
22 Meghalaya 5.1
23 Punjab 5.2
24 Rajasthan 5.5
25 Haryana 5.3
26 Bihar 5.4
27 Jharkhand 5.4
28 Jammu and Kashmir 5.7
29 Uttar Pradesh 5.7

Indian households with number of members

Total/ Rural/ Urban [2] Normal HouseholdsHousehold Size
NumberPopulation1234567-1011-1415+Mean Household Size
TOTAL  192,671,8081,018,865,868      7,564,196      15,871,465      22,472,551      37,022,159      35,873,420      26,147,067      40,876,110      4,547,141      2,297,699                5
RURAL  137,235,518   737,283,492      5,447,972      11,488,543      15,158,542      24,539,403      25,201,835      19,218,618      31,005,414      3,447,071      1,728,120                5
URBAN    55,436,290   281,582,376      2,116,224        4,382,922        7,314,009      12,482,756      10,671,585        6,928,499        9,870,696      1,100,070         569,579                5

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