Bankura
Population
- Population
- 35.97 LIndia 121.09 Cr
- Urban %
- 8.33%India 31.14%
Literacy
- Literacy
- 70.26%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 80.05%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 60.05%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 20.00 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 957 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 949 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 11.64%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 32.65%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 10.25%India 8.63%
- Household
- 4.69India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 40.77%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 23.62%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 62.50%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 59.23%India 60.20%
Population density, land area and decadal growth are not published in the Primary Census Abstract and so are unavailable at district level. See Methodology.
Bankura in context
With 35,96,674 people at the 2011 Census, Bankura was the 80th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 13th most populous of West Bengal's 19. That is 3.9% of everyone living in West Bengal at the time.
Literacy stood at 70.26%, 2.7 points below the national 72.98% — 6.0 points below the West Bengal average. That ranked it 374th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 20.0 points, 3.8 points above the national gap of 16.3.
The sex ratio was 957 women per 1,000 men (7 above the West Bengal figure of 950). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 949, 31 above the national 918.
Female work participation was 23.6%, 5.5 points above the state figure.
Bankura contained 12 towns — 3 with a municipal body of some kind, and 9 classed as census towns, meaning they met the census's urban test without having one. The largest was Bankura (M), with 1,37,386 people. That put 8.3% of the district in urban areas, 23.5 points below the West Bengal share of 31.9%.
Towns in Bankura
Bankura has 12 census towns. The largest are listed below.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bankura (M) | 1.37 L | 86.12% | 967 / 1000 |
| Bishnupur (M) | 67,783 | 82.63% | 990 / 1000 |
| Sonamukhi (M) | 29,085 | 86.25% | 941 / 1000 |
| Barjora (CT) | 14,012 | 82.67% | 945 / 1000 |
| Kotulpur (CT) | 8,483 | 86.13% | 982 / 1000 |
| Khatra (CT) | 7,382 | 84.32% | 956 / 1000 |
| Simlapal (CT) | 7,206 | 69.66% | 951 / 1000 |
| Beliatore (CT) | 6,463 | 85.32% | 989 / 1000 |