Tarari, Bihar

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Tarari is a village and a community development block in Bhojpur district, Bihar, India. It lies on the Arrah plains and is a rural area without large towns.

As of the 2011 census:
- Tarari village population: 3,586 in 393 households.
- Tarari block population: 182,631 in 28,316 households.

Demographics
- Sex ratio: 926 females per 1,000 males, higher than the district average of 907.
- 0–6 age group sex ratio: 945 girls per 1,000 boys, above the district average of 918.
- Scheduled Castes: about 20.15% of the block population. Scheduled Tribes: about 0.11%.

Literacy
- Block literacy: 71.04% (slightly above the district’s 70.47%).
- Gender literacy gap: 24.99 percentage points (men 83.03%, women 58.04%).

Occupation
- Most people work in agriculture. Of the block’s workers, 24.77% are cultivators who own or lease land, and 55.15% are agricultural labourers who work someone else’s land (the highest share in the district).
- 5.23% work in household industries; 14.85% are other workers.
- Gender split: 12,413 men and 2,573 women workers. Men are more often cultivators or labourers; women more often work in household industries or as other workers.

Tarari block contains 115 villages.