South Twenty Four Parganas towns
West Bengal · South Twenty Four Parganas
Maheshtala (M)
4,48,317
people at the 2011 Census · 2.30 L male, 2.19 L female
Population
- Population
- 4.48 LIndia 121.09 Cr
Literacy
- Literacy
- 82.03%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 85.43%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 78.45%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 6.98 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 952 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 967 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 10.32%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 12.19%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 0.43%India 8.63%
- Household
- 4.42India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 36.37%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 12.26%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 86.72%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 63.63%India 60.20%
Figures cover the census town itself, not its wider urban agglomeration, and exclude any outgrowth reported separately. Density, land area and decadal growth are not published in the Primary Census Abstract. See Methodology.