Background:Healthy skin plays an important role in most people’s self esteem. Every individual suffers from skin diseases at some point of time during his lifetime. This study was conducted to know the socio–demographic profile and pattern of skin diseases in patients attending skin outdoor in tertiary care hospital in Jharkhand.

Methodology:A hospital based cross sectional study was conducted for a period of three months using semi–structured questionnaire for data collection. The patient was interviewed after taking consent.

Results:A total of 1302 patients were included in our study. Female (53%) predominance was found with most common age group being 21–60 years. Majority were Hindus (57.6%), residing in rural area (79.7%) and married (60.2%). Most common skin disease found was allergic disorder in 20% of people attending skin opd followed by fungal infections (18.4%). In fungal infection superficial dermatoses was most common and the affected areas are trunk and groin called Tineacorporis (30.5%) and tineacruris (22.5%) respectively.

Conclusion:The study reveals that the people in this region are more prone to skin disease and the incidence of skin disease among females was more. The majority of the patients fall under the adult category. We found that allergic skin disease and skin infections were more common in this location