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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).

List

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Rank State Household

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 average 4.8
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

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Total/ Rural/ Urban[2] Normal Households Household Size
Number Population 1 2 3 4 5 6 7-10 11-14 15+ Mean Household Size
TOTAL   192,671,808 1,018,865,868       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

References

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  1. ^ IIPS/India, International Institute for Population Sciences -; International, Macro (2007-01-01). "India National Family Health Survey (NFHS-3) 2005-06". {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  2. ^ "Indian Household by size".