Indian states ranking by household size

States and union territories of India ordered by

Area Population GDP (per capita) Abbreviations Access to safe drinking water Availability of toilets Capitals Child nutrition Crime rate Ease of doing business Electricity penetration Exports Fertility rate Forest cover Highest point HDI Home ownership Household size Human trafficking Infant mortality rate Institutional delivery Life expectancy at birth Literacy rate Media exposure Number of vehicles Number of voters Open defecation Past population Places of worship Poverty rate Power capacity Safety of women School enrollment rate Sex ratio Suicide rate Tax revenues TV ownership Transport network Underweight people Unemployment rate Vaccination coverage Wildlife population
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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 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.

List

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	⁄_A
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	Normal Households		Household Size
Total/ Rural/ Urban	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

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)
"Indian Household by size".

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