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Houseless Population 2011

India is home to 4.5 lakh houseless families which has total population of 17.73 Lakh living without any support roof cover. The highest being living in state of Uttar Pradesh and Maharashtra. The Sex Ratio of houseless population of India is just 694 females per 1000 Males. Total 2.7 lakh children with age 0-6 are also houseless in India as per primary census data of 2011. Literacy rate of houseless people is 56.07% lower than national average of 74.04%.

# State Total Males Female Child(0-6) Literacy
- India 1,773,040 1,046,871 726,169 270,605 56.07%
1 Uttar Pradesh 329,125 205,662 123,463 47,426 37.17%
2 Maharashtra 210,908 127,809 83,099 30,211 50.24%
3 Rajasthan 181,544 97,568 83,976 37,568 19.96%
4 Madhya Pradesh 146,435 81,599 64,836 27,440 31.72%
5 Andhra Pradesh 145,211 75,678 69,533 20,750 46.79%
6 Gujarat 144,306 83,967 60,339 24,920 34.87%
7 West Bengal 134,040 91,839 42,201 9,556 41.02%
8 Karnataka 76,735 42,874 33,861 11,998 45.83%
9 Haryana 51,871 28,748 23,123 10,278 22.12%
10 Tamil Nadu 50,929 28,119 22,810 5,978 50.12%
11 Delhi 47,076 37,836 9,240 3,594 46.13%
12 Punjab 46,714 25,814 20,900 8,912 27.16%
13 Bihar 45,584 24,231 21,353 8,401 47.64%
14 Orissa 34,061 19,681 14,380 4,529 46.69%
15 Chhattisgarh 24,214 13,868 10,346 4,455 43.94%
16 Jharkhand 23,391 12,828 10,563 4,360 40.23%
17 Jammu and Kashmir 19,047 10,524 8,523 2,868 28.98%
18 Assam 12,919 6,698 6,221 1,816 63.56%
19 Kerala 11,853 7,751 4,102 880 58.37%
20 Uttarakhand 11,824 7,917 3,907 1,524 45.89%
21 Chandigarh 4,139 3,837 302 119 54.25%
22 Himachal Pradesh 4,098 2,481 1,617 688 47.16%
23 Tripura 3,225 1,755 1,470 358 79.63%
24 Manipur 3,212 1,592 1,620 477 78.72%
25 Goa 3,051 2,049 1,002 346 55.30%
26 Puducherry 1,590 777 813 205 52.85%
27 Arunachal Pradesh 1,556 924 632 209 59.91%
28 Meghalaya 1,241 622 619 228 55.68%
29 Dadra and Nagar Haveli 1,004 549 455 221 19.80%
30 Nagaland 876 528 348 135 62.48%
31 Daman and Diu 737 429 308 104 36.65%
32 Sikkim 277 156 121 29 78.23%
33 Mizoram 152 81 71 19 93.98%
34 Andaman and Nicobar Islands 95 80 15 3 65.22%