This is a list of the States of India ranked in order of average number of persons per 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 for Population Sciences (IIPS), Mumbai, which is 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 According to NFHS-3, 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 N⁄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/ UrbanNormal HouseholdsHousehold SizeNumberPopulation1234567-1011-1415+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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