Census of Population and Housing

Census of Population and Housing - 2012

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District	Number of households - 2012	Principal Source of Drinking Water													Principal Type of Cooking Fuel						Principal Type of Lighting						Type of Toilet						Principal Method of Solid Waste Disposal						Existing Communication Equipments
District	Number of households - 2012	Protected well within premises	Protected well outside premises	Unprotected well	Tap within unit	Tap within premises but outside unit	Tap outside premises	Rural water supply project	Tube well	Bowser	River/ Tank/ Stream/ Spring	Rain water	Bottled water	Other	Fire wood	Kerosene	Gas	Electricity	Saw Dust/Paddy Husk	Other	Electricity - fron National Grid	Electricity - from rural hydro power project	Kerosene	Solar Power	Bio Gas	Other	Water Seal - connected to a pit/septic tank	Water Seal - connected to a piped sewer	Not Water Seal	Direct Pit	Other	Not Using a Toilet	Collected by Local Authorities	Occupants Burn	Occupants dispose within premises	Occupants composting solid waste	Occupants dispose solid waste into Road/River/Canal/Sea/Creek/ Forest	Other	Radio	Television	Fixed line telephone	Mobile telephone	Desktop computer	Laptop computer	Fax
Sri Lanka	5,264,282	1,652,972	772,819	211,556	1,110,050	363,043	181,235	482,937	177,432	18,931	239,952	4,022	9,984	39,349	4,124,667	129,896	975,262	9,770	7,606	17,081	4,577,662	8,549	640,265	33,597	133	4,076	4,683,248	240,322	111,732	136,544	4,154	88,282	1,077,950	2,486,628	1,228,751	406,606	46,526	17,821	3,626,595	4,122,833	2,230,751	4,152,964	788,628	296,972	21,630
Colombo	572,475	123,735	11,188	1,951	360,380	29,938	26,539	12,728	2,065	38	1,560	112	828	1,413	165,027	54,411	346,340	1,957	432	4,308	559,218		12,586	158	13	500	457,919	95,894	8,172	8,631	1,534	325	394,117	112,584	42,997	18,374	2,218	2,185	417,507	505,729	288,945	491,251	159,188	92,617	7,352
Gampaha	604,009	317,581	43,463	13,128	126,947	26,607	17,208	18,388	35,527	481	274	131	605	3,669	377,713	31,866	186,989	1,092	422	5,927	581,543		21,927	62	15	462	561,768	24,117	10,277	6,551	536	760	173,204	311,908	88,904	26,000	2,239	1,754	424,412	515,699	271,673	508,126	135,044	51,918	3,547
Kalutara	305,737	138,335	41,714	13,508	63,237	9,212	5,633	20,378	7,272	90	4,933	90	43	1,292	235,583	3,652	64,921	356	298	927	285,653		19,033	553	3	495	292,195	6,638	3,284	2,710	123	787	50,948	168,921	70,099	13,892	1,226	651	217,276	253,070	137,931	249,440	54,826	17,456	1,137
Kandy	348,019	49,629	38,580	10,117	132,091	28,270	14,564	39,395	6,762	688	24,032	221	61	3,609	281,035	3,793	61,823	765	120	483	321,668	697	25,031	468	7	148	314,317	16,196	5,830	9,768	200	1,708	52,980	145,272	102,948	42,093	3,490	1,236	266,867	291,616	167,424	282,067	69,578	22,409	1,434
Matale	129,710	26,731	22,822	5,253	24,559	8,876	4,168	22,399	7,500	62	6,605	28	63	644	117,848	614	10,881	184	19	164	108,897	509	19,143	1,115	5	41	110,095	4,106	4,509	10,218	91	691	11,221	75,629	30,384	12,112	255	109	94,476	101,518	53,149	101,559	15,933	4,533	300
Nuwara Eliya	181,182	9,149	10,157	6,899	19,002	22,837	11,826	38,262	1,169	66	60,177	103	17	1,518	156,693	3,402	20,234	632	99	122	159,442		21,290	343	4	103	144,673	9,252	9,593	10,456	148	7,060	20,321	58,769	44,327	29,572	21,259	6,934	126,955	142,542	90,011	126,294	16,268	3,929	663
Galle	273,140	117,064	40,126	19,214	56,542	14,807	7,671	7,028	3,171	135	5,984	10	41	1,347	228,441	1,531	41,959	180	170	859	255,412	430	16,849	239	7	203	257,657	5,917	4,296	4,123	108	1,039	33,635	133,183	78,951	25,483	1,445	443	198,311	224,645	117,797	217,266	40,352	12,392	650
Matara	206,790	65,292	25,843	12,457	46,985	17,580	3,913	19,013	1,562	14	13,140	48	25	918	179,214	772	26,075	146	116	467	193,360	215	12,897	196	2	120	196,953	4,565	1,788	2,991	56	437	26,791	86,754	69,496	22,638	866	245	156,647	169,190	92,619	162,619	26,116	6,495	425
Hambantota	156,476	18,709	11,881	3,618	38,450	42,035	7,728	24,791	3,666	501	3,264	57	108	1,668	145,543	307	10,129	104	12	381	138,246		17,712	170		348	145,252	1,904	1,736	6,836	120	628	8,469	89,674	38,109	19,923	127	174	107,164	123,997	59,598	121,416	15,272	3,621	233
Jaffna	140,323	54,642	44,554	1,255	2,407	2,963	14,251		15,607	3,142	13	3	53	1,433	127,267	5,107	7,287	272	193	197	101,541		38,374	333	6	69	123,978	2,939	4,929	1,157	70	7,250	19,544	67,076	27,467	25,137	827	272	72,177	84,534	39,967	109,386	18,505	9,477	609
Mannar	23,975	5,700	6,644	661	1,192	3,834	1,302		1,666	2,785	32	2	42	115	21,221	604	2,046	79	3	22	13,967		9,550	443	6	9	19,382	713	1,014	353	8	2,505	5,843	14,113	3,336	122	551	10	12,331	10,977	5,955	18,205	1,249	790	51
Vavuniya	41,908	19,540	8,517	1,623	880	1,171	1,522	275	7,256	134	8	38	912	32	34,770	1,586	5,319	86	18	129	29,230		12,079	589	1	9	34,118	1,564	2,432	756	21	3,017	8,420	28,511	3,763	1,149	25	40	22,371	24,464	15,276	32,995	4,132	2,360	252
Mullaitivu	24,896	8,153	8,242	6,462	60	100	141		1,088	210	48		4	388	24,277	430	146	38		5	5,106		18,117	1,648	2	23	16,118	744	1,488	1,326	80	5,140	269	18,958	5,047	252	343	27	13,337	4,492	2,116	19,110	299	238	22
Kilinochchi	28,369	9,033	9,652	7,029	32	87	43		1,481	835	12	1	3	161	27,458	704	194	9		4	2,790		22,371	3,147	5	56	18,396	1,217	1,571	937	42	6,206	295	18,208	8,998	825	41	2	16,866	3,961	2,531	21,613	401	471	39
Batticaloa	134,966	77,504	29,831	2,965	4,110	4,762	802	796	12,184	210	994	135	78	595	100,662	5,366	27,340	301	1,205	92	90,673		43,671	586	5	31	111,166	1,697	4,297	817	64	16,925	54,050	39,610	39,783	698	798	27	58,082	75,212	25,135	95,034	10,915	3,987	392
Ampara	165,166	44,011	33,011	7,436	35,590	24,812	5,607	10,148	2,375	168	755	83	39	1,131	127,773	5,271	27,196	707	4,075	144	134,294		29,646	1,144	1	81	140,376	7,892	6,073	6,397	85	4,343	67,882	61,402	28,636	6,844	332	70	90,111	113,573	45,729	122,075	14,026	4,413	420
Trincomalee	96,951	26,911	22,617	3,175	15,596	15,106	4,170	1,001	1,408	4,425	1,090	12	81	1,359	79,875	2,974	13,394	462	67	179	73,896		22,700	239		116	83,647	2,656	4,406	2,526	75	3,641	30,563	51,803	12,146	1,568	828	43	43,692	58,229	22,652	70,963	7,140	3,161	336
Kurunegala	443,349	230,275	111,409	25,653	15,640	6,355	4,656	34,950	9,312	142	2,389	343	444	1,781	418,508	830	23,043	341	14	613	377,444		59,334	6,386	8	177	416,194	8,159	5,963	8,313	156	4,564	18,328	269,860	126,297	28,453	172	239	322,582	354,998	195,394	352,119	57,322	16,672	978
Puttalam	202,796	57,030	34,591	3,661	17,626	13,074	5,545	19,864	34,696	3,961	491	715	3,445	8,097	177,161	3,241	21,412	264	70	648	169,666		30,419	2,315	6	390	185,401	4,646	3,410	2,737	77	6,525	26,627	125,872	40,003	8,311	1,697	286	128,371	154,861	64,980	164,193	22,759	10,033	594
Anuradhapura	231,356	50,933	64,063	7,811	33,806	17,571	8,164	35,054	5,941	205	3,138	1,259	2,504	907	212,607	531	17,677	257	10	274	191,589		36,998	2,696	11	62	204,734	6,891	5,688	8,734	99	5,210	14,159	156,386	45,663	14,858	159	131	156,244	178,058	106,457	175,093	20,241	5,459	416
Polonnaruwa	111,010	29,968	25,434	7,627	12,098	8,554	2,979	18,437	3,273	28	1,620	174	480	338	104,026	238	6,334	200	5	207	91,471		18,582	910	3	44	97,262	2,817	2,404	6,333	60	2,134	5,033	70,997	24,387	10,397	69	127	72,781	86,267	46,983	84,334	8,916	2,534	175
Badulla	214,900	29,028	27,523	12,707	28,328	15,963	7,813	45,155	2,198	106	44,812	205	40	1,022	196,637	934	16,471	458	172	228	184,373	291	28,899	1,265	4	68	189,711	8,077	6,264	8,524	118	2,206	17,909	86,613	66,814	37,758	4,172	1,634	158,331	168,218	109,036	152,443	21,121	5,427	402
Moneragala	120,137	25,872	20,186	7,076	15,009	13,785	4,251	20,424	5,483	69	6,892	79	21	990	115,523	298	3,867	326	5	118	83,412		32,907	3,768	2	48	102,560	4,331	2,248	8,610	72	2,316	4,112	75,626	28,958	11,026	180	235	82,213	81,088	48,613	84,365	6,371	1,649	157
Ratnapura	285,893	49,680	37,636	14,384	28,830	24,976	12,868	75,632	4,235	399	34,825	111	34	2,283	265,076	867	19,237	366	39	308	232,159	4,478	44,955	3,888	16	397	255,586	12,250	4,775	11,490	142	1,650	16,710	122,435	111,910	32,130	2,037	671	200,627	218,753	113,483	217,436	29,142	6,923	568
Kegalle	220,749	68,467	43,135	15,886	30,653	9,768	7,871	18,819	535	37	22,864	62	13	2,639	204,729	567	14,948	188	42	275	192,612	1,929	25,195	936	1	76	203,790	5,140	5,285	5,250	69	1,215	16,520	96,464	89,328	16,991	1,170	276	166,864	177,142	107,297	173,562	33,512	8,008	478