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Dumka villages

Jharkhand · Dumka · Jama

Asanthar

626
people at the 2011 Census · 215 male, 411 female

Population

Population
626India 121.09 Cr

Literacy

Literacy
80.47%India 72.98%
Male Lit.
82.58%India 80.88%
Female Lit.
79.47%India 64.63%
Lit. Gap
3.11 ppIndia 16.25 pp

Society

Sex Ratio
1912 / 1000India 943 / 1000
Child Sex Ratio
973 / 1000India 918 / 1000
Under 7
11.66%India 13.59%
SC %
2.24%India 16.63%
ST %
57.35%India 8.63%
Household
6.66India 4.85

Work

Workers
32.27%India 39.80%
Female Work
23.11%India 25.52%
Main Workers
9.41%India 75.24%
Non-Workers
67.73%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.

Asanthar in context

With 626 people at the 2011 Census, Asanthar was the 562nd most populous of its district's 2925 villages, above the district average of 421.

Literacy stood at 80.47%, 21.2 points above the district's rural average of 59.28%.

The sex ratio was 1912 women per 1,000 men (929 above the district's rural figure of 983) — one of the minority of villages where women outnumbered men. Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 973, 50 above the rural national 923.

32.3% of the population were recorded as workers, 16.2 points below the district's rural rate.