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Jashpur villages

Chhattisgarh · Jashpur · Pathalgaon

Balajhar

2,620
people at the 2011 Census · 1,304 male, 1,316 female

Population

Population
2,620India 121.09 Cr

Literacy

Literacy
51.87%India 72.98%
Male Lit.
62.68%India 80.88%
Female Lit.
41.01%India 64.63%
Lit. Gap
21.67 ppIndia 16.25 pp

Society

Sex Ratio
1009 / 1000India 943 / 1000
Child Sex Ratio
1089 / 1000India 918 / 1000
Under 7
15.31%India 13.59%
SC %
7.02%India 16.63%
ST %
70.61%India 8.63%
Household
4.49India 4.85

Work

Workers
46.64%India 39.80%
Female Work
32.75%India 25.52%
Main Workers
89.85%India 75.24%
Non-Workers
53.36%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.

Balajhar in context

With 2,620 people at the 2011 Census, Balajhar was the 39th most populous of its district's 755 villages, above the district average of 1,027.

Literacy stood at 51.87%, 14.5 points below the district's rural average of 66.33%.

The sex ratio was 1009 women per 1,000 men (level with the district's rural figure of 1008) — one of the minority of villages where women outnumbered men. Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 1089, 166 above the rural national 923.

46.6% of the population were recorded as workers, 12.7 points below the district's rural rate.