Housing and Household Characteristics

Housing and Household Characteristics:

In the upazila, there are 45456 households. Distribution of households by type shows that there are 98.78% dwelling units, 0.73% institutional and 0.49% other units in the upazila.

Household Size:

The average household size (dwelling) for the uazila is 5.1 persons. For rural area the size is 5.1 and for urban area the size is slightly higher i.e., 5.2.

Housing:

Percentage distribution of main households of the dwelling by type of structure are presented in table below:

Main Houses of the Dwelling Households by Type of Structures

 It is found in the table that the housing condition of Kamalganj upazila is dominanted by kutcha houses. The table shows 7.24% main house of the dwelling households are jhupri, 68.29% are kutcha, 17.95% households are semi-pucka and the remaining 6.52% are pucka houses. In urban area the condition is improved. In urban area 6.94% main house of the dwelling households are found pucka, 16.77% semi pucka , 64.94% kutcha and the remaining 11.35% are jhupri as against 6.46%, 18.09%, 68.69% and 6.76% respectively in rural area .

Source of Drinking Water:

In Kamalganj uazila the source of drinking water of 70.00% dwelling households is tube-well water, 2.23% is tap water, 3.31% is deep tube-well water, 7.77% is pond water and the remaining 16.69% is water from other sources.

Sanitation:

In the upazila 25.87% of dwelling households have sanitary latrines with 23.66% in rural area and 44.61% in urban area. A total of 56.62% of the households have non-sanitary latrines with 57.97% in rural area and 45.20% in urban area. In this uazila 17.51% of the dwelling households have no toilet facility.

Access to Electricity:

All the 9 uions of the uazila have been brought under Rural Electrification Programme. However, a total of 26.38% of the dwelling households reported to have electricity connection in the entire Upazila.

Ownership of Agricultural Land :

In Kamalganj uazila, 43.62% of the dwelling households own and 56.38% do not own agricultural land. Percentage of ownership of agricultural land is 47.42% in urban area as against 43.17% in rural area.

Main Source of Household Income :

In the upazila, 39.77% of the dwelling households depend on agriculture as the main source of household income with 23.67%, cropping, livestock, forestry and fishery 16.10% as agricultural labour. Other sources of household income are non-agricultural labour (14.81%), business (8.96%), employment (5.09%), construction (1.43%), religious service (0.49%), Industry (5.30%), rent and remittance (2.07%), transport and communication (2.46%) and others (19.62%). In urban area the main sources of household income are employment (8.82%), construction (1.10%), rent and remittance (0.21%), religious service (0.34%), business (18.56%), non-agricultural labour (9.77%), Industry (0.65%), transport and communication (3.84%) and others (56.71%). In rural area the main source of household in come are agriculture (39.32%) of which cultivation, forestry and fishery (23.35%) and agricultural labour (15.97%). Other sources are non-agricultural labour (15.41%), business (7.82%), employment (4.65%), transport and communication (2.30%) construction (1.47%), Industry (5.84%), rent and remittance (2.29%), religious service (0.50%) and others (20.40%)

Source:

1. Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics: http://www.bbs.gov.bd/