Puruliya villages
West Bengal · Puruliya · Para
Alkusa
1,069
people at the 2011 Census · 562 male, 507 female
Population
- Population
- 1,069India 121.09 Cr
Literacy
- Literacy
- 70.52%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 84.41%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 55.23%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 29.18 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 902 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 853 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 11.79%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 67.17%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 0.00%India 8.63%
- Household
- 5.40India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 32.09%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 12.82%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 73.18%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 67.91%India 60.20%
This village is classified entirely rural at the 2011 Census, so urban population share does not apply. Density, land area and decadal growth are not published in the Primary Census Abstract. See Methodology.
Alkusa in context
With 1,069 people at the 2011 Census, Alkusa was the 836th most populous of its district's 2667 villages, above the district average of 959.
Literacy stood at 70.52%, 7.8 points above the district's rural average of 62.73%.
The sex ratio was 902 women per 1,000 men (58 below the district's rural figure of 960). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 853, 70 below the rural national 923.
32.1% of the population were recorded as workers, 12.1 points below the district's rural rate.