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Chamba villages

Himachal Pradesh · Chamba · Sihunta

Balana (338)

959
people at the 2011 Census · 471 male, 488 female

Population

Population
959India 121.09 Cr

Literacy

Literacy
79.86%India 72.98%
Male Lit.
87.13%India 80.88%
Female Lit.
73.26%India 64.63%
Lit. Gap
13.87 ppIndia 16.25 pp

Society

Sex Ratio
1036 / 1000India 943 / 1000
Child Sex Ratio
642 / 1000India 918 / 1000
Under 7
11.47%India 13.59%
SC %
18.67%India 16.63%
ST %
23.98%India 8.63%
Household
4.52India 4.85

Work

Workers
47.34%India 39.80%
Female Work
43.44%India 25.52%
Main Workers
20.04%India 75.24%
Non-Workers
52.66%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.

Balana (338) in context

With 959 people at the 2011 Census, Balana (338) was the 84th most populous of its district's 1591 villages, above the district average of 304.

Literacy stood at 79.86%, 9.3 points above the district's rural average of 70.60%.

The sex ratio was 1036 women per 1,000 men (40 above the district's rural figure of 996) — one of the minority of villages where women outnumbered men. Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 642, 281 below the rural national 923.

47.3% of the population were recorded as workers, 10.8 points below the district's rural rate.