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Nabarangapur villages

Odisha · Nabarangapur · Kosagumuda

Balenga

1,960
people at the 2011 Census · 959 male, 1,001 female

Population

Population
1,960India 121.09 Cr

Literacy

Literacy
37.95%India 72.98%
Male Lit.
52.54%India 80.88%
Female Lit.
23.93%India 64.63%
Lit. Gap
28.61 ppIndia 16.25 pp

Society

Sex Ratio
1044 / 1000India 943 / 1000
Child Sex Ratio
1059 / 1000India 918 / 1000
Under 7
15.97%India 13.59%
SC %
14.59%India 16.63%
ST %
52.65%India 8.63%
Household
4.51India 4.85

Work

Workers
60.15%India 39.80%
Female Work
59.04%India 25.52%
Main Workers
34.44%India 75.24%
Non-Workers
39.85%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.

Balenga in context

With 1,960 people at the 2011 Census, Balenga was the 177th most populous of its district's 891 villages, above the district average of 1,272.

Literacy stood at 37.95%, 5.9 points below the district's rural average of 43.85%.

The sex ratio was 1044 women per 1,000 men (23 above the district's rural figure of 1021) — one of the minority of villages where women outnumbered men. Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 1059, 136 above the rural national 923.

60.1% of the population were recorded as workers, 9.2 points above the district's rural rate.