Paschim Medinipur villages
West Bengal · Paschim Medinipur · Kharagpur - I
Balia
980
people at the 2011 Census · 480 male, 500 female
Population
- Population
- 980India 121.09 Cr
Literacy
- Literacy
- 72.18%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 81.38%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 63.03%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 18.35 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 1042 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 1279 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 14.18%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 56.33%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 21.43%India 8.63%
- Household
- 4.45India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 39.80%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 20.40%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 71.28%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 60.20%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.
Balia in context
With 980 people at the 2011 Census, Balia was the 1468th most populous of its district's 8695 villages, above the district average of 597.
The sex ratio was 1042 women per 1,000 men (77 above the district's rural figure of 965) — one of the minority of villages where women outnumbered men. Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 1279, 356 above the rural national 923.